Old Guardian Barley Wine (2010)
(Batch of Old Guardian Barley Wine (2004-))
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.02
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Botella de 65 cl de el lúpulo, tomada en agosto de 2011. Edicion 2010. color rojizo con sabores y aromas maltosos y dulces acabando con cierto amargo. Cuerpo intenso con 11.1 vol que se notan de principio a fin. Bastante buena, buenos comienzos en el estilo barley wine americano.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
2010 bottle from Brewdog AGM between 4. It’s a damn good US-style barley wine. Amazingly full of fresh hop aromas even after 3 years in the bottle. Smooth and easily drinkable. Good stuff.
Stuu (34525) ticked Old Guardian Barley Wine (2010) from Stone Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample at Ale Wine & Spirits in Powell on 02/16/2012. The beer is a clear copper-amber color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lace. Roast malt, toffee, fruit and hops in the nose. Full-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, ripe fruit and piney hops. The finish is hoppy up front with a roast malt aftertaste. Good Barley Wine all around.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
2010 Vintage bottle shared@home: appearance is a slightly hazy copper, sweet malt (a sweetness that fills the entire mouth), caramel, lots of fruits (peaches, citrus, mango,…), there seems to be some residual hop in here but it seems to have melted in to the sweetness & mixed in with the fruitiness, brown sugar, sweet spices, cinnamon & vanille exceptionally balanced, not getting any alcohol here, nice malt-rich body, medium carbonation //// Got another bomber of this one // early 2010 Vintage, still very yummy but hops seem to be having a bit too much remaining bitterness for me tuning out the oranges, marmalade, pine goodness of before, tuned the score down from 4.9 to 4.7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 2010. Hazy dark orange color, maybe light red. Smell hops, caramel, light alcohol. Taste hops, little alcohol, little fruits. Nice mouthfeel. High but pretty ok carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2010 Vintage. Twelve months makes for a wonderful bottle, much easier in temperament than Old Guardian fresh out of the tank. Malty, so, so malty, glorious in its heavy toffee and caramel soul, yet with a massive swath of hops on the back end, providing a piney bitterness that keeps the beer from becoming a bottled Cinnabon. The alcohol is still present; don’t get me wrong. But this beer has mellowed greatly over the past year-- keep saving one for a vertical, and open your extra up tonight.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2010 vintage on tap at the Meddlesome Moth, Dallas. It pours a cloudy mahogany colour with ruby highlights and a thin beige head. The nose is of oak, pine, dark fruits and caramel. The taste is initially pine, resin, smokey and caramel, leading to orange peel, raisin, date, fig, plum, prune and apricot. The mouth-feel is syrupy and the finish is long and bitter. A pretty tasty barley wine, full of dark sticky fruits.