Thomas Hardy's Ale (2016)
(Batch of Thomas Hardy's Ale (2015-2017))
Interbrau in Villafranca Padovana (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: MeantimeBarley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.32
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2016 Vintage. Murky light brown with quick fading head. Aroma and flavour have intense sweet dried fruit. Especially orange peel marmalade. Full bodied and warming. Although sweet there's a residual dryness in the finish that keeps it in reasonable balance.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2019
at 20:32
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
30.12.2018, 0,33l bottle (2016 vintage, bottle #00468) @ home:
Small bubbly shortlasting head, cloudy reddish golden color. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, dried fruits, sap, fruit stones, grass, minerals, alcohol, raisins, caramel malts, almonds, grain, butterscotch. Taste is sweet mineraly, raisins, sour grass, fruit stones, caramel malts, sap, nuts, butterscotch, alcohol, minerals, dried fruits, sugar. Medium bitterness, sweet fruity mouthfeel. Fair enough for now, it needs to be aged for a while. But it's dangerously easy drinking for the ABV...
Small bubbly shortlasting head, cloudy reddish golden color. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, dried fruits, sap, fruit stones, grass, minerals, alcohol, raisins, caramel malts, almonds, grain, butterscotch. Taste is sweet mineraly, raisins, sour grass, fruit stones, caramel malts, sap, nuts, butterscotch, alcohol, minerals, dried fruits, sugar. Medium bitterness, sweet fruity mouthfeel. Fair enough for now, it needs to be aged for a while. But it's dangerously easy drinking for the ABV...
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2018
at 18:56
8/10
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Tried
on 20 Dec 2018
at 15:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Systembolaget Stockohlm last year, vintage 2016. Pours almost clear viscous amber with no head. Aroma is caramel, booze, figs, dried fruit. Body is heavy, strong and sweet, boozy too, with lots of caramel and some nuts. Little chocolate and toffee, honey. Warming lingering palate. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2018
at 20:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 33 cl. Vintage 2016. Pours amber with a slight haze and a small, rough off-white head. Nose is super oxidized - as intended. Caramel, overripe fruit and booze. Super rich body, low in carbonation. Oxidized, woody, overripe fruit, slightly moldy even. Tastes sooooo old, but in a pleasant way. Warming alcohol finish. 070218
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2018
at 11:29
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Flaska från SB. En flaska från 2016. Smak och doft av torkad frukt, karamell, brunt socker, tobak med fin alkoholvärme. Rund och len, fin sötma och fruktighet, fina aromer i god balans. Blir bara bättre med åren, mycket gott!
Tried
on 06 Dec 2017
at 16:08
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Thanks to Kraddel / Beerlover_Ben. 330 ml. bottle sampled. 2016 Vintage. Orange amber. Already surprising amount of oxidation, caramel, sugar, toffee, honey, oxidation, little carbonation, sugar, big sweet, almost whisky, raisin, date, sugar, sugar, almost no carbonation. Very tasty barley wine that tastes already greatly oxidized relatively fresh, shows great potential, really liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2017
at 14:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Flaska från SB. En flaska från 2016. Håller den nya måttet är ju den stora frågan. Det går egentligen inte att svara på än utan kanske först om 5-6 år. Men jämfört med en 10 år gammal flaska från O'Hanlons gör det i alla fall inte bort sig. Den gamla har utvecklats men den nya har inga uppenbara fel. Alkoholvärme, torkad frukt, söt tobak och mer riv och umpf än den lagrade. Snyggt och riktigt gott.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2017
at 09:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle #521 "2016", 11.7%. Clear amber with tiny head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, dark fruit and wood. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, dark fruit, warming, sweet, ripe fruit, toffee and wood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2017
at 14:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample from bottle @ [ DØE - Ølfestival København 2017 ] @ Lokomotivværkstedet, Otto Busses Vej 5A, 2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark. [ As Thomas Hardy’s Ale ]. [ Vintage 2016 ]. Clear light to medium orange amber colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, bread, caramel, light dried fruit and alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, pale malt, sweet malt, bread, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20170519] 7-3-8-4-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2017
at 12:51