Bottle. Dark amber color. Malt, toffee, vanilla and earthy notes. Cognac in the aroma and flavor. Additional licorice in the flavor. Sweet, carbonation is soft. Not bad, but could be much better.

9th June 2019
Clear amber beer, small and incomplete bubbly cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft and fairly dry malts, some caramel and cream. Soft dried fruits. If this has spent any length of time in a champagne cognac barrel, I would be surprised. Sure these is a light cognac tone but I've had plenty stronger from loads of BWs that produced this flavour naturally and were not barrel aged. Compared to BW18, this is a flaccid let down.
Earlier Rating: 4/20/2019 Total Score: 3.9
20th April 2019
Almost clear amber - brown beer, tidy pale tan head. Smooth an airy palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Fluffy malts bring a bitterish and slightly singed toffee - caramel. Ripe ans slightly dank fruits. Touch of barrel vanilla. The champagne cognac is fairly clear but there is some bitterness coming in that you would never get in the appellation product. Nontheless this is a good stab at doing this and I liked it. But Champagne Cognac and Barleywine are two of my favourite things to drink so can this be bettered? Absafuckenloutely!

Dark brown, ruby red, small head. Aroma is raisins, dark fruit, malt, sweet, syrup. Taste is the same, bitter, dry, sweet, alcohol warmth, very good

Bottle picked up from somewhere in the Netherlands and consumed at home Sunday 9th December 2018. Pours dark reddy/brown with an off white head, sticky. Barley and toffee in abundance there is a little vanilla and a touch nutty. Soft in the mouth, a little sticky, boozy but it's a nice booziness to it. This is good.A8 A4 T7 P4 Ov15 3.8

Bottle at THT August The Holland Tasting. Clear chestnut brown with offwhite head. Sweet caramel malts, chestnut. Big sweet and moderate bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of BW17 Champagne Cognac Barley Wine on 31 Aug 2018 at 18:33 - Score: 7. Original review text: Bottle at THT August The Holland Tasting. Clear chestnut brown with offwhite head. Sweet caramel malts, chestnut. Big sweet and moderate bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.

33cl bottle shared at THT. Thin beige head. Hazy amber pour. Barrel notes. Nice

Bottle shared at formerly 100%NL THT. Clear reddish brown with beige head. Sweet caramel, light booze, cognac, soft spices, toffee, alcohol, light licorice, soft salty cardboard. Over medium sweet and bitter, very light salty. Full bodied.

Bottle. Dark amber pour. Aroma of ripe fruit, malt, caramel, oak, vanilla and grapes. Taste has sticky ripe fruit, oak, dry grape, malt, figs, caramel and some vanilla. Not bad at all.