Thomas Hardy's Ale (2017)
(Batch of Thomas Hardy's Ale (2015-2017))
Interbrau in Villafranca Padovana (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: MeantimeBarley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production
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Score
7.20
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 33cl. from my 'cellar' bought at Saveur Biere before it was bought by ABInBev (and became PerfectDraft) bottle no. 12374 vintage 2017. Boozy nose. Small fizzy off-white head, quickly dissipating, clear deep amber, no lacing. Rich aroma, toasted sweet malt, plum, figs, raisins, alcohol, some caramel, spicy notes. Smooth taste, light light heavy sweet and slightly bitter, malty, plum, figs, raisins, toffee, brown sugar, some fortified wine, molasses, spicy notes. Full-bodied, oily texture, flat carbonation, malty sweetbitter aftertaste, alcohol lingers on till the end, spicy notes, tasty, good.
Tried
from Bottle
from Saveur Bière
on 15 May 2026
at 18:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle (2017 vintage). Amber colour, small beigeish head. Aroma is dried fruits, some ripe fruits, mild toasted and some fudge tones to it. Flavour is zest, some marmalade, mild alcohol sweetness with some sweet malts and a bit dried fruits to it too. Big and bold.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2024
at 18:12
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
2017 11.2 oz bottle dumped on 12/18/22. Clear, ruby-tinged maroon-amber. Small, dark beige head to ring. Smells oxidized, sugary, unpleasant. Tastes oxidized, sugary, unpleasant. Sad the fate of Thomas Hardys. It's just been juggled around and is just a shade of its former Eldridge Pope self. They should just let this one die a noble death and stop doing a terrible job trying to rebrew it. Or, alternatively, actually brew a good beer true to the original? I guess Interbrau and O Hanlons aren't good enough breweries to do that. Down the drain it goes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2022
at 18:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lovely amber looking beer with a small tan head on top Fine intensity in the aroma Not to sweet as this beer tend to be. Quite balanced Mellow fine carbonation level also. Pleasant and easy to drink Fine duration Quite port wine ish. Toffee, caramel malt, nutty and dried fruits Well masked alcohol level. [Bottle #05765 2017 vintage from Systembolaget in Sweden]
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2020
at 11:25
8/10
OMT Advent Day 19 - Two vintages of the same beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2019
at 00:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thomas Hardy’s Ale 11.7% Bottle No. 28863 Vintage 2017 Damn that’s a huge beer. It’s a deep orange brown with virtually no head but a rich malty, plum and stone fruit aroma and a tobacco leaf malt caramel thing as well. Full bodied and velvety smooth, what I thought was smoke in the aroma is here in a tobacco, slightly peaty smoke, then ash and sweet oaky caramel. This went great with a Japanese curry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2019
at 14:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2017 vintage. Pours clear dark copper color with almost no head. Aromas of dark fruits, molasses, and some booze. Sweet molasses flavors with raisins and plums. Quite boozy. Medium to full body with no carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2019
at 01:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(bottle) 2017 vintage; clear, bright, orange amber colour with a small white head; aroma of apricot jam; balanced flavour with a long, medium bitter finish; not bad but only average as barleywines go
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2019
at 22:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Vintage 2017, bottle no. 30059. Pours a clean amber colour with a small warm-beige head that is frothy, average stay with a ring left. Big dark fruits for the nose with the richness and sweetness of figs, plums, dates. Some hints of hops giving a slight minty feel. The taste has the dark fruits, some brown sugars, but all well-balanced to not be too sweet, too rich. Some decent hops helps the finish. Some coffee notes lingers with the mild grassy hop dryness. A tad of liquorice. Gets quite bitter as it goes. Gets hazy at last pour. Yeah, a very hoppy Barleywine. Nice !
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2019
at 05:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Somewhere then shared at a bottleshare (2017): pours copper with white head. Aroma is maltiness and booze, dark fruits, and toffee. Taste is sweet, large, malty, bitter. Pretty heavy hitting. This is definitely not for the uninitiated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2019
at 20:45