Signature Series Bligh's Barleywine Ale
Dry Dock Brewing Company in Aurora, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.60
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Botle @ ZEBF 2015. Barley wine with a heavy focus on caramelly vanilla and dark fruit, both in aroma and in taste. Good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Zeebra 2015, small sample. Slight hazy amber to copper color, short head. Aroma of caramel and toffee, slight fruity. Soft sweet in taste, soft bitterness as well. Not as overly sweet as some barley wines can be, but more focussed on the malts. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle thanks to Tom. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head that leaves spotty lacing. The aroma is strong roast, toffee, vanilla. Medium mouth, sweet roast, dark fruit, candy sugar, vanilla, light booze finish, really enjoyed this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at RBWG ’15 Grand Tasting @ Coppertail, thanks to whomever shared this one, 21/02/15. Rich amber with a moderate beige covering. Nose is rich fruitcake, spice, toffee, dates. Taste comprises light barrel, caramel, fruit cake, toffee, dates, sweet licks. Full bodied, oily feel, light warming alcohol in the close. Ok barley wine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared during the RBWG 2015 Grand Tasting. Pours clear amber with a foamy off-white head. Sugary sweet with lots of caramel, bready malts, toffee. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish, sticky, with lots of gooey ripe fruits and further caramel. Tasty though not especially nuanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - Nice caramel malts. Clear copper with a decent beige heads. Nice sweet caramel, cherry notes and a nice sweetness. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy mahogany with a small beige head. Nose is complex with notes of whiskey barrels, toffee, caramel, and dark fruits. Flavour is similar, with wood, whiskey, dark fruits, and toffee. Amazing coherence of flavours, with no hint of oxidation. Fantastic stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Amber brown, pretty intense whiskey and chewy caramel/toffee aroma. Rich brew. Sweet with a little woody barrel snap. Syrupy richness but the malts are well-developed. Everything is clean, rounded and balanced. If all barley wines were like this I’d drink a lot more barley wine. Utopias fans would dig this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ DLD. Sweet brown sugar malt, prune, vanilla, and earthy woody aroma. Brown with a small tan head. Brown sugar, prune, vanilla, and woody flavor. Full body, soft carbonation.