Bear Hug
Stone Barrel Brewing Co in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.85
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oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Bear Hug from Stone Barrel Brewing Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can. Amber colour with a small white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, some caramel and a bit wooden tones. Flavour is dried fruits, alcohol, some berries and a bit herbal and grassy tones. Quite a simple barley wine.
aswespeak (5845) ticked Bear Hug from Stone Barrel Brewing Co 5 years ago
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Culchiem (6598) reviewed Bear Hug from Stone Barrel Brewing Co 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Can from beerclub. Hazy amber with a medium head. Aroma of syrupy malt. Flavour is orange hop, dry bitter raisins, fruity orange finish.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Bear Hug from Stone Barrel Brewing Co 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
3rd June 2020
Can. Pretty much a clear orange amber beer, good bubbly cream colour head. Airy palate, smooth and mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Fluffy malts, not a huge amount of depth here, but decent creamy sweetness and a touch of tangy caramel. Dominant flavour is of orange and tangerine peel hops. Some pine and brighter citrus underneath. Smooth and semi dry finish. A simplistic but reasonably drinkable barleywine. Don't dislike this but a good barleywine needs to be more than a dry hopped strong beer, much more.
TBone (30139) reviewed Bear Hug from Stone Barrel Brewing Co 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can 440ml (Beergium)
Dry-hopped barleywine. Amber colour, small white head. Fruits, malts, grape, caramel and some alcohol. Medium-bodied. Riped fruits, alcohol and berries in the flavour. Somewhat berryish barley wine.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bear Hug from Stone Barrel Brewing Co 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
American style barleywine from one of Ireland's new generation craft brewers, Stone Barrel in Dublin, active since 2013. Thick and frothy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, thinning but generally well-retaining head, misty deep reddish-amber-tinged deep glowing orange blonde robe, cloudy with sediment. Aroma of fresh grapefruit peel, dry biscuit, whisky, bitter honey, kumquat, soggy peanuts, dried wormwood leaves, dried peaches, crackers, marmalade, pink peppercorns, some frying onion and black radish flesh notes. Sweet onset, mandarin, dried mango and apricot with a very faint strawberry touch somewhere, yet nowhere overly sweet, in fact less sweet than I expect from a typical barleywine; medium carb, full oily body, but not as vinous as a barleywine ideally tends to be. Biscuity, bit peanutty and rusk-like maltiness, flavoured with very grapefruity, eventually quinine-like, spicy hop bitterness bringing retronasal orange peel, toasted onion and green peppercorn aspects as well as a long-lasting bitterness, piercing through the remnants of that biscuity malt profile - until a whisky-tinged alcohol glow accentuates both the hop bitterness and the malt sweetness. Intended as an American style barleywine, but in a somewhat too 'thin' way, ending up much more like a DIPA or IIPA. If this brew really wants to be a barleywine, it needs to 'fatten up' in the malt department and become more opulent, full and vinous; that said, however, it is indeed a very U.S. style beer, flawlessly executed and very tasty, so I will not take 'truth to style' too much into consideration here - I hugely enjoyed it regardless.