Beetle Mania
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.20
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Lameth (4926) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Sweet, caramel, toffee, syrupy. Dry bitter taste. Wine(ish)-Hoppy finish. Interesting.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can/ Nose is brown sugar, licorice, berries, currants. Pretty orange-brown color. Biscuity, sugary flavor, lightly roasty, toasty, with toffee, honey, booze. A bit over the top.
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can. Unclear brown color with grey head. Aroma is strawberries, raisins, light roast. Taste is strawberries, caramel, raisins, earthy. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. A bit too sweet and overdone.
Ritzbertator (4719) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dark amber. Aroma is honey, forest pine, chocolate, caramel, raisin. Taste is intense sweet raisins, a little alcohol warmth. Very dense and oily. Surprisingly not disgusting nor spritty. Could be a bit more complex.
one51 (2463) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark brown with a reddish tinge. Thin head. Raisiny, light soy-umami aroma. Salty/sweet, nice roasted malt flavor that isn't overpowering, bit of berries and bitterness but very well balanced. Great!
jhaase (14816) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Dark red brown, off-white head. Roast, sweet berry, Dry, creamy dry, a bit sticky, caramel, sugar, eh.
Fin (18365) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can courtesy of the RB group München, Wednesday 12th June 2019. Hazy dark chestnut brown with a tan head, burnt toffee, some black treacle, soft in the mouth, boozy, a too boozy.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Dranken Geers, Oostakker. Pours hazy dark brown with a big, slowly thinning, unstable, frothy, beige head; some lacing. Arome of orange peel, grapefruit juice, walnut, wet earth, brandy, toffee, toast, ripe pear, burnt caramel. Taste is medium to heavy malty sweet, quite caramelly under prominent notes of dried orange & banana, raisin & red grape even, but never cloying; a nutty accent initiates a medium herbal bitterness, fit for balance, with walnut, earth, tea leaves, hint of grapefruit, and a bit toasty & bready overall. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, a bit herbal, lingering nuts, grapefruit, orange peel again, and a firm dash of warming alcohol (brandy indeed, or lovely triple sec). Full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Tasty, balanced, very 'modern' Barley Wine, I'd say. Never a hard day's night with this one!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as BrewDog Beetle Mania (by BrewDog):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
13/III/19 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 3/XI/20 - (2019-373)
Clear deep reddish brown beer, creamy irregular beige head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet, caramel, dried fruits, bit malty, some tropical fruits, ripe banana, bit floral. MF: ok carbon, full body. Taste: lots of ripe banana up front, pretty sweet, malts, caramel, bit sugary. Aftertaste: more banana, lots of alcohol, bit of milk chocolate, soft roast, more sweet malts, caramel, very sugary, more alcohol still, bitter hops in the finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Beetle Mania from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 9
American style barleywine by BrewDog released last year and hopped with American, Czech and German varieties. Can at Café Congé in Ghent. Thick and frothy, stable (certainly in relation to AVB), dense, pale yellowish beige head, initially clear deep and warm coppery bronze robe with ruby red tinge, misty with sediment. Rich, powerful nose, lots of orange peel, dry biscuit cake, marmalade, raisins, dried figs, cognac or even Grand Marnier, gingerbread, muesli, cranberries, hazelnut liqueur, hard caramel candy, orange water, cedar oil, persimmon. Dried fruit sweetishness in the onset, lots of fig, raisin, cranberry and some candied orange, light sourish touch, spritzy and initially even somewhat stinging carbonation; very full, slick mouthfeel, resinous and vinous in the end, lovely biscuity, peanutty and hard-caramelly malt sweetness with a dry-toasty bitterish edge accentuated by a long, very oily, candied citrus peel- and essential pine oil-like hoppiness, powerfully bitter yet remaining well in balance with the inherent biscuity sweetness of the malts – until of course, a very pronounced, very brandy- and orange liqueur-like alcohol effect sets in, adding a long and heating, but also rather wry effect. It does, however, remain fairly tolerable, so that the beer as a whole maintains a high degree of drinkability in spite of its hefty ABV. I love this kind of liqueurish, candied orange peel-like American style barleywines a lot every now and then, and this certainly was a very good representative of the style, in almost ‘old school BrewDog’ fashion. Will revisit as we were allowed to take a can home…