Eyjafjallajökull
Puffin Brewery in Riemst, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Stadsbrouwerij BrauwBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
6.74
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CloakedDagger (37568) reviewed Eyjafjallajökull from Puffin Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33 cl. Pours opaque black with a tiny, rough light brown head. Nose of oxidized, overripe dark fruits - plummy. Rich, sweet body - again overripe fruits and molasses with a hint of smoke. Warming alcohol finish. Interesting and different. 150323
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Eyjafjallajökull from Puffin Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
One of a whole string of beers with Icelandic names, developed for a client brewery passionate about Iceland, hence those names – and the name “Puffin Brewery” for said client brewery, named after the sea bird indigenous to (among other regions) Iceland. Maybe this Puffin Brewery deserves its own brewery status on this website, but I will leave that up to the admins to decide. This is the barleywine in this Puffin series, brewed at Brauw, like the rest of the range; it is named after the Icelandic volcano which erupted for the last time in 2010 (an event which was extensively covered by media at the time). Yellow-beige, fine-bubbled but completely loose head, fizzing away into nothing in seconds, like the ‘head’ on a glass of coke; very dark chocolate brown with hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of moist peat, whisky, roasted chicory, bitter chocolate, walnut oil, nail polish remover, wet leather, fig, cigars, roasted hazelnuts, blood, elderberry syrup, hint of bonfire. Sweet onset (raisin, elderberry) with a sourish edge as well as a subtle umami aspect (beef stock) and softish carb; very full body. Hard-caramelly, pecan-nutty maltiness, not very sweet and instead developing quite a toasty-bitter edge, even chicory-like, the bitterness accentuated by a herbal hop note and much more by very boozy, hot, whisky-like alcohol, flanked with solventy effects. Notes of smoked fig and blood-like iron linger around as well. Powerful and intense, but crude and rather harshly boozy and solventy as well – this could become a great beer with a lot of finetuning and perfectioning. In terms of style: barleywine perhaps in strength, but a very dark and bitter-toasty one then.
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Eyjafjallajökull from Puffin Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours dark caramelly redbrown. Small, nearly no head. Scent is sharp, roasted, very mild smoke. Alcohol is fairly hidden. Taste is full, very roasty ( especially for a BW ) . mild sweet undertone. ashy, almost. Burnt coffee. strong BE yeast profile, a bit astrigent due to the fermentation. Fairly bitter. Not a big fan.