Rhodesian BA - Blend 2019
Brouwerij Frontaal in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.54
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Octomore, Ardmore, Speyside.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Tap at BPBW'19, Saturday session. I only took numerical notes while having this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up in Bulgaria. Pours clear ruby-brown with a tight, creamy tan head. Medium to big sweet flavour with hearty peaty whisky character, well toasted malts, mild earthy bitterness, some dry smoke. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Moderate warmth in the finish, nice dryness, more rich peat, a little more smoke and ash, meaty malts, hints of toffee. Excellent stuff. Has aged well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2022
at 23:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9.5
Bottle at home, 20th June 2020. Pours a dark mahogany brown. Aroma is caramel, barrel, wood, dark fruit. Taste is woody, barrel, some peat and liquor, caramel, sticky, but the wood and liquor temper it. Lovely complexity and a great beer
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2020
at 18:28
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a dark brown colour, little head. Aroma is boozy, bourbon, caramel, dark malt. Big body with a smooth mouthfeel. Flavour is rich and complex, malty, sweet. Lots of caramel, boozy, with a lot of bourbon coming through. Finishes long and boozy with an intense vanilla, oak, bourbon flavour. Lovely BA version of an already lovely beer.
Tried
on 12 Apr 2020
at 02:12
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Dark amber pour. Aroma of fruity whisky, soft peat, raisin, smoke, ripe fruit, caramel, vanilla, oak and malt. Taste has peat, smoke, raisin, iodine, vanilla, booze, malt, bitter caramel and a boozy scotch heavy finish. Lots of delicious barrel character in this one, but the body remains intact. Great beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2020
at 21:41
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Very dark brown with thin creamy head. Aroma and flavour have a nice balance of sweet toffee, milk chocolate and malts against light earthiness and peat. Excellent.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2020
at 21:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Donker roodbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is warm en vol met ietwat rook, vanille en chocolade waarbij de whiskey duidelijk aanwezig is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2019
at 18:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
1st September 2019
Clear amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Silky malts. Sweetish. Mellow fruity Whiskey soaked fruits. Touches of toffee and malt cream. Modest spice. Quite a light finish. Fine. Quite drinkable but lacking some maturity and depth.
Clear amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Silky malts. Sweetish. Mellow fruity Whiskey soaked fruits. Touches of toffee and malt cream. Modest spice. Quite a light finish. Fine. Quite drinkable but lacking some maturity and depth.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2019
at 21:41
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark amber color. Toffee and vanilla in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with toffee, vanilla and whisky. Hint of peat. Alcoholic, but fairly well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 08:34