Reserve Barleywine Style Ale Aged On Oak
The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly Beer) in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.34
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This beer is aged on new Missouri oak. The wood has a medium toast, which helps to caramelize the sugars in the oak and adds a nutty character to the beer as it soaks into the wood. Leave the corkscrew in the kitchen drawer and pop open a beer that will reward you with more flavors than most wines can dream of.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
2008 Bottle, drank in early 2010. Pours a light brown with ruby-red hues and a slight, white head. Sweet aroma of light malts, fruits, dark candies and some hard alcohol. Quite sweet flavor, too, with caramel, brown sugar, ripe, dark fruits like cherries and grapes. Medium to full in body with soft carbonation and mild warmth. Finishes sweet and malty with some alcohol. Very good overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2010
at 09:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Travlr: Poured a muddy brown with some reddish tips, head was light and beige. Aroma was woodsy, alcohol, vanilla, and malt. Taste was very whiskey and oak with a roasted malt and nut mix. There was a lot going on in the finish, but in the end whiskey won that war as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2010
at 16:55
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
2008 bottle, 75 cl, courtesy of Greg at Churchkey. Shared with SHIG in Aviano, Italy, probably the first Schlafly beer to appear in Italy. Chestnut brown color, large beige head, great lacing. Aroma is bourbon, smoke, vanilla, caramel and wood. Taste is very malty, lots of whisky. Good complexity and character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2010
at 08:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit aroma with hints of oak. Sweetish malty caramel flavor with hints of dark fruit and oak.. Sweetish malty caramel finish with hints of dark fruit. Also has some oak and vanilla in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2010
at 06:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Papsø. Thanks. Pours dark unclear amber with a small creamy white head on top. Nose is oak, vanilla, syrup and dark fruit. Medium and smooth palate. Flavor is dominated by vanilla, oak and caramel with a touch of alcohol. Slick and sticky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2010
at 03:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
75 cL bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours cloudy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is dry wooden and malty. Sweet malty, vanilla and wooden flavoured. Smooth malty and sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2010
at 12:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at RBNAG 2009. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is vineous, oak, alcohol. Flavour is vineous, oak, alcohol, malt, hop, caramel, robust, vanilla. full body. Complex and nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2010
at 04:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
slightly cloudy brown, small head. stale hops, frutis in the aroma. not bad hops though.berries. wood. nice. flavor is oak, fruits, booze, pretty good BW with lots of oak and woody notes.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2010
at 13:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy orange with a medium beige head. Hoppy aroma with pine, grapefruits, pine, ripe fruits and caramel. Sweet flavour with toasted malt, caramel, pine and hops. Finished somewhat dry.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2010
at 12:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2012-05-02, bottle from Chevy Chase, Washington DC, in 2009, 4+ years old, 8-4-8-4-16=40
Hazy amber color, with small head. Strong oak vanilla aroma and malt. Sweet malt and caramel flavor, a bit buttery, with oak vanilla character; good bitterness, with a nutty edge, and a warming alcohol finish. It shows just minimal signs of age.
2010-04-23, tasting at Papsø, vintage 2006, 3+ years old, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Hazy amber color; generous creamy head. Creamy aroma, vanilla, sweet caramel and fudge, with very light sourness; chaotic. Quite strong body, sweet toffee and fudge flavor, with vanilla oak; the final is a bit drier. Confused, obvious, unimpressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2010
at 12:42