Massive!

Gigantic Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

Barley Wine - Barley Regular

Score

7.38

ABV: 12.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 62

MASSIVE! Barleywine is released every year. What makes this beer so distinctive, and gives it the great depth of flavor, is the 8 hour long boil technique. The kettle at Gigantic is heated by a burner, essentially a blow torch under the kettle. This high heat caramelizes the wort, and the long boil intensifies that caramelization. The recipe changes every year, using different malts and hops, but the technique remains the same.

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7.8

cuso (17193) reviewed Massive! (Rye Barrel 2022) from Gigantic Brewing 7 months ago

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

Barley Wine tasting, Bratislavka. Brown color with small beige head. Aroma of honey, rye, bready malt, molasses, rye whiskey. Taste starts bready malty, complemented with honey, roasted notes, molassess, rye, whiskey, cococnut from barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2025 at 19:00

Reubs (35480) ticked Massive (2016) from Gigantic Brewing 10 months ago

Tried from Draft on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:55

7.5

Iznogud (14627) reviewed Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 2 years ago

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

Bottle, 650 ml, shared with others. Brown with beige head. Malty, caramel, sweet, some brown sugar, dried fruit. Medium sweetness. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2024 at 05:27

c0axial (8164) ticked Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 5 years ago

Tried on 22 Feb 2020 at 13:42

7.6

TimE (11146) reviewed Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 6 years ago

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

Over top sweet brown sugar burnt raisin oak vanilla . Sweet never cloying. Not a masterpiece. Not too boozy. Decent without being outstanding

Tried on 18 Jan 2020 at 07:10

8.4

Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

2015 vintage non BA. 22oz bomber pours with a dark clear mahogany colored body that supports a wafer thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up sticky prunes, figs and raisins as well as booze, malts and a bit of oxidation. The taste delivers smooth slick sweet malts running into prunes, raisins and a touch of oxidized cardboard notes. To midway moments of caramel and molasses are notes before this slides into a pleasing finish. This is a smooth sipper with little sense of the massive ABV.

Tried on 07 Nov 2019 at 22:16

6.5

Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 7 years ago

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

Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with a huge creamy tan head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was toasty malts, wood, pineapple, molasses and cherry. The flavor was bitter with pine, pineapple, cleaning solution, caramel, strong astringency, cherry, fig, soap and perfume. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2018 at 14:47

7.1

stevoj (18327) reviewed Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 7 years ago

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

Bomber at barley wine tasting. Darkish amber pour, small white head. Big malty aroma, caramel, toffee. Sweet taste too, raisins, plums, molasses. Smooth, and the right amount of sweetness.

Tried on 01 Apr 2018 at 18:57

allinthenameofbeer (11688) ticked Massive (2016) from Gigantic Brewing 7 years ago

Did not age well, slight funk and vinegar, sour mouthfeel.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2018 at 14:40

7.8

SHIG (13882) reviewed Massive! from Gigantic Brewing 8 years ago

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

ABC Roxy Benefit: Poured light brown with bubble head. Aroma was dark fruits, caramel and hops. Taste is fermented dark fruits very boozy, malty rugged backbone, sweet sticky finish.

Tried on 25 Jan 2018 at 17:30