Warka z datą do 18.05.2022. Barwa ciemna, nalewa się bez piany. W aromacie wyczuwalne nuty sosu sojowego oraz delikatnie gorzkiej czekolady. W smaku wyczuwalne nuty czerwonego wina oraz szlachetnego alkoholu. Goryczka na średnim poziomie, nasycenia brak, alkohol minimalnie rozgrzewa przełyk.

Bottle shared at Free Beer tasting. Very dark brown with barely any head. Coffee, salmiak, dry oak, chocolate, soft red wine, vanilla. Quite sweet, medium bitter. Full bodied, a bit dry. Quite nice, a bit too old maybe but tasty enough.

Dark wine barrel aged barleywine from what is potentially (and to my personal appreciation) Poland’s top craft brewery, with very classy label. Medium thick, small-bubbled, moussy, opening and dissipating head on a very deep bronze-ish chocolate brown robe with wine red glow. Intense bouquet of hard caramel, brandy, soy sauce, vanilla-breathing wet oak, walnut oil, indeed dry Tempranillo red wine, teriyaki, reduced gravy, solventy effects of shoe polish and varnish but not too strongly so, nutmeg, burnt toast. Dried blueberries and old raisins in the onset, strong beef stock cube- and soy sauce-like umami presence, soft carb, full and oily mouthfeel, somewhat sticky; caramelly, walnutty and brown bread-crusty malts, thick and dryish with a sweeter edge, growing tannic woodiness eventually even becoming astringent. Spicy notes of nutmeg and clove (as in Glühwein almost, but much more subtle) adorn this prominent woodiness, before it plunges in to a warming, if not heating, brandy-like alcohol glow in which spicy hop bitterish notes play. Typical red wine tartness and vinosity, as I expect from a wine barrel aged beer, lag a bit behind here and the umami is a bit too strong for me; dark barleywine indeed, with almost (classic) imperial stout-like features, intense and tannic, but I cannot help expecting a bit more, to be honest.

330ml bottle kindly shared by djoeye. The oily pour reveals a deep black body, shiny naked surface and scattered lacing. Attractive roasted malty nose, caramel-chocolate. Powerful flavours of grainy chocolate, wood, dark and dried fruits. Smooth vinous impression. Rounded roasted malt-driven end, warming down the swallow. Full bodied slow sipper. (Rating session with djoeye and Finn, PivotekaH7, Tromsø 03.02.2021).