Massive!
(has 4 batches)
Gigantic Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.39
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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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8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Mar 2025
at 07:55
7.5/10
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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
9/10
Tried
on 22 Feb 2020
at 13:42
7.6/10
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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
8.4/10
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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
6.5/10
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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
7.1/10
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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
3/10
Did not age well, slight funk and vinegar, sour mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2018
at 14:40
7.8/10
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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
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bomber from Tavour. Nose is toffee, prunes, and golden raisins. Clear rusty red with a big, lightly lacing, beige head. Flavor is lightly sweet and malty with fruity notes. No hint of the alcohol.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2017
at 16:34