Barleywine
Sebago Brewing Company in Gorham, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
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7.38
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Our 2023 Barleywine is aged for 11 months in a selection of bourbon barrels from Widow Jane. It boasts bold flavors from the marriage of beer and barrels that are not for the faint of heart.
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pdog555 (2102) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 6 months ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Pours amber with a thin frothy white head. Aroma of pine. Taste has hoppy resin. Palate has some wine must, more oaky elements, vaguely sickly sweet. Eh.
yespr (55501) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 fl oz can. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and breadish. Sweet and caramelish. Breadish and toasted malty. Dry, roasted and dark malty. Mild overripe fruity note into the finish.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Team Boston. Pours a dark amber with small off white head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong toffee, caramel, dark fruit, bourbon. Thick mouth, candy sugar, raisin, bourbon, vanilla, very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
2013 bottle. Pours mahogany into a tulip. Off-white head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Vanilla, oak and bourbon. Soft with sweet bourbon and vanilla upfront turning midly sour in the lasting bitter finish.
CLW (16859) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
10 oz. snifter @ Portsmouth Gas Light Co. Deep Crimson color with slow diminishing head. Aroma is pretty nice, light bourbon on top of brown sugar, vanilla and alcohol soaked raisins.
The taste is sweet, boozy and decadent. Bourbon nauances sitting on top vinous notes, vanilla bean, and oak tannins with a syrupy texture. A bit of chocolate hints in the backend as it warms. Medium body with a sweet and woody /oaky finish. Nice light warming sensation after the sip. The Gas Light Co. is really stepping up their tap list in a big way, lots of solid offering on the Street level! This was a treat to get without having to drive to Portland.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Rcvd in trade.
The appearance has a dark brown colored body with a thin half fingered white foamy head that dies leaving a thin film of a head. The lacing is thin and sticks to the sides of the glass at the top of the body and ends up just sliding with the sips.
The smell has a super strong bourbon up front with some plums and raisins to combine along with some caramels and toffee. There is that element of tobacco in the aroma.
The taste is super sweet and becomes slightly spicy and leads into a dry raisinous bourbon-like aftertaste with a sticky sweet bourbon finish.
On the palate, it sits about a medium to heavy, not sessionable - meant to sip, and has a carbonation that is fairly smooth and is good for the style and for me.
Overall, this is a good American Barleywine aged in bourbon barrels - well, its exactly what Sebago was looking to do, in my opinion, this is pretty good and worth a try, but will say not as hoppy as some American Barleywines I’ve had and yes I realize this could be for the fact that this is from 2013.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Pours with an amber body that exhibits copper edges and a tiny white head. The big aroma offers up fresh oak and a modest degree of bourbon rolling into sharp booze notes. The taste is rich with a sweet mix of dark fruity esters, pine hop flavor, some grapefruit hop flavor and then moving into fairly smooth bourbon notes. Wow, this is rich, bold and smooth and with a terrific balance between beer and barrel notes. Interesting, lots of oak in the nose but not so much in the flavor. One of the better done barrel aged American style barleywines I’ve had.
Tinus (5080) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Amber colour, slight white rim. Aroma of caramel, raisins, wine, malts, light hops, light bourbon. Sweet malty flavour, raisins. Finish raisins, quite sweet, light cloying.
(From 66cL bottle @ RBBWG II, Wilrijk 2013. Courtesy of Tastybird. Thanks for sharing, Rian!)
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
66cl bottle sample @ RBBWG 2013, courtesy of ThirstyBird. Cuivrée, col beige fin. Arôme caramel, malté, note de fudge assez dominant et vraiment fantastique, sucre brun. Palais est agréablement bien malté, caramel subtile avec une certaine douceur résiduelle qui fini par collé aux lèvres, pointe d’épices pour un houblonnage léger qui procure une fine amertume et note citronnée. Se termine sur un profil malté orienté vers le biscuité. Délicieux.
77ships (14506) reviewed Barleywine from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Thx. Thirstybird / Rian for this one. 65 cl. bomber sampled @ RBBWG 2013. Amber, fox red. Sweet creamy nose, caramel, bourbon, wood, sweet, sugar,… Taste is Bourbon BA USA Barley wine goodness, sweet caramel, toffee, sweet, bourbon, wood, barrel, sugary, vanilla, caramely dark fruits, sweet, slick, smooth,… Great stuff, lovely.