Half Pints Brewing Co. Burlywine

Burlywine

 

Half Pints Brewing Co. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦

  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
7.30
ABV: 10.5% IBU: 75 Ticks: 34
At Half Pints, we live by our motto: small brewery, BIG FLAVOR. Nothing proves this more than when we brew this extra strong ale. It is packed with five different malts for a strong dried fruit character and is hopped with UK Fuggles and Goldings for a woody, herbal aroma. This Barleywine is meant to be shared fireside with friends. Try it with a cheese plate of sharp Cheddar, Stilton, and Gorgonzola or a slice of rum soaked fruit cake. It will continue to improve with careful aging in a cool dark place, so try to save a bottle to compare with the new vintage. Serve at 12 degrees celcius in a brandy snifter. Unfiltered and unpasteurized.
 

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7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cloudy brown color, no head, no lacing. Alcohol evident in the smell and taste. Lots of butterscotch and toffee. Nice enough.

Tried on 11 Apr 2010 at 10:05


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Brown bottle, 341 ml, 2009, purchased at the Manitoba Liquor Control Commissions on January 20 2010, savoured on February 4 2010; eye: copper, turbid, no effervescence, tiny sheet of beige head that turns rapidly into a tiny ring, no lacing; nose: malt, caramel, resinous hops; mouth: malt, caramel, resinous hops, grapefruit, alcohol warmth, finale in caramel-malt with really good presence of resinous hops, full body, not much carbonation, rather bitter, good astringency, mildly sweet, harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 341 ml, 2009. achetée à la Manitoba Liquor Control Commission le 20 janvier 2010, savourée le 4 février 2010; œil : cuivrée, trouble, pas d’effervescence, petite couverture de mousse beige qui se transforme rapidement en un petit anneau de mousse, pas de dentelle; nez : malt, caramel, houblon résineux; bouche : malt, caramel, houblon résineux, pamplemousse, chaleur d’alcool, finale en malt-caramel avec très bonne présence de houblon résineux, corsée, peu carbonatée, plutôt amère, bonne astringence, moyennement sucrée, texture rugueuse; en résumé : bien

Tried from Bottle on 04 Feb 2010 at 13:50


6.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

At a tasting, murky light orange colour with bits ands pieces floating around, aromas of candy, honey comb, and at touch of spices, flavours of butter, nuts and dried apricots with an empathic bitterness that also dominates the finish. Quite good.

Tried from Can on 27 Jan 2010 at 00:40


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks David Cohen. Hazy orange color. Aroma of malt, grainy notes, caramel and a bit of hops. Sweet malty flavor, a bit grainy, with caramel and some hoppy bitterness in the finish. Medium to full-bodied. No noticeable alcohol.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jan 2010 at 10:42


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

This little waxed twist off bottle is courtesy of tpd975. Wax twist off? I think that’s a first for me. Pours hazy deep copper with thin off white head. The aroma brings up muted pine then moving into dark fruitiness, oxidized apricot meat and a touch of heat to the snoot. The taste begins sweet with muddly puddly chewy malts and then turning into a modest sensation of crisp pine hop bitterness and malts. Toward the finish sweet aged muted pine hops and then thin layers of dark fruitiness take this to closure.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2009 at 20:36


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled at RBJG. Clear deep amber, brief head. Piney caramel that lasts from nose and on. Near full bodied with lots of toffee and sparkling treacle. Salty finish. Intensive sweetness takes the edge of it for now, would probably do well with some time in the cellar.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jun 2009 at 03:33


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at the RBJG. Rich toffee sweetness, strong alcohol burn. Some hops noticeable as well. Very rich, semi-complex malts, ok fruitiness, but a bit too sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 26 May 2009 at 08:04


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a small, off-white head and a hazy amber body. Mild british hops and lots of caramel and malt. Taste is hoppy with dark fruits, malty and caramel coming next with a bit of heat from the alcohol. Kind of fizzy and a bit too dry for the style. Otherwise a good british barelywine.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2008 at 17:56


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at the Angry Fist of Santa tasting at Chris_o’s. Who decided to start drinking barley wine at 2 in the morning??? Barley wine aroma, sweet malt, lots of hops. Decent American barley wine.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2008 at 12:57


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

This is the 7th beer from this brewery. The others had nothing bad, but nothing remarkable either.However this is very good. Cloudy amber with chunks,small beige head.Brown sugar molasses nose.Sweet start,Malt molasses profile,long strong bitter hop end.Med alc heat Nice

Tried on 20 Mar 2008 at 19:35