Arcane Rituals
Bottle Logic Brewing in Anaheim, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Ritual Brewing CompanyBarley Wine - Barley Special
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Score
8.17
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The crackling magic of Chevallier Heritage Malt courses through this English-style barleywine. A combination of bourbon, brandy, and VSOP cognac barrels cast a spirited spell over the brew and mix to manipulate space and time, opening a viscous liquid portal into what surely must be immortality.
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10/10
Perfect
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2021
at 23:51
8/10
Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours a dark black with medium tan head that lasts. The aroma is candi sugar and bourbon. Slick body, licorice, caramel, candi sugar, brandy, wood, nice sweetness, enjoyed this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2020
at 09:07
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
50cl bottle pours with a deep chocolate mahogany colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up fruity jammy boysenberry chocolate yum moving into soft oak nuanced plum like cognac. The taste delivers rich intense flavors of boysenberry and blueberry jam blended with chocolate and molasses. To midway it picks up soft smooth inviting cognac mixed with sweet slick malts and bourbon that's perfectly balanced with the other rich decadent beer notes. Wow. The body is insanely full for a barrel aged beer. Amazing rich nectar like sipper. How is there so little sense of the massive ABV? What.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2020
at 02:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Power tasting at Salesforce, 13.59% ABV, release 2019
Dark brown colour. Very nice aroma, nutty malt, caramel, bourbon, light spirit. Sweet, full bodied, rich malt flavour, with loads of bourbon character, some other spirit, sweet nuts, and strong alcohol warmth.
The very strong alcohol twists this and it doesn't seem anymore an English Barleywine, but it's a damn fine brew, hybrid Barley Wine.
Dark brown colour. Very nice aroma, nutty malt, caramel, bourbon, light spirit. Sweet, full bodied, rich malt flavour, with loads of bourbon character, some other spirit, sweet nuts, and strong alcohol warmth.
The very strong alcohol twists this and it doesn't seem anymore an English Barleywine, but it's a damn fine brew, hybrid Barley Wine.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2020
at 09:10
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2020
at 19:13
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle. Heavy, sweet and syrupy with some bourbon, toffee, sugar and sticky notes and ripe plums. Super sweet and heavy. Quite massive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2020
at 17:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Deep copper brown with a small beige head. Toffee and barrel notes with dark raisin. Dark boozy raisin barrel notes. Touch of heat and long raisin finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2020
at 06:00
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
500ml (thx, Nick S.!) at Sales Force. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: sweet, dark fruits, bourbon, malty. Taste: along the same lines, some booze, tons of cognac and bourbon, some chocolate and vanilla. Overall: very nice.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2020
at 04:55
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
500 mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma is wonderfully decadent, with lots of bourbon and liqueur barrels upfront, with caramel malt and bready notes. Flavour is decadent and elegant, with a wonderfully mixture of bourbon barrels, brandy and a touch of cognac, with lots of caramel, toffee, and bready malt. Finishes with bourbon, molasses and toffee. What a beauty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2020
at 04:53
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Very dark brown with thin head. Aroma has lots of sweet dried fruits. Very malty. Lots of cognac sweetness. Rich and full bodied
Tried
on 02 Feb 2020
at 11:58