Blue Ridge
Perennial Artisan Ales in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating|
Score
7.96
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Blue Ridge is an English-style barleywine aged in bourbon barrels. With rich notes of raisin, chocolate, toffee, molasses and bourbon, this is a super decadent, self-indulgent beer meant to be enjoyed on cold nights with family. Brewed in celebration of love in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bouteille 75cl partagée avec Isaac, Sergi, Costa, Bernat, Tavo, Iñaki, Nacho, Trota - El Birrot & Basque region friends mega tasting. Merci!
Anno 2025.
Brune foncée tirant sur ambre, huileux doré au verre, col fin blanc-cassé.
Gros barleywine qui oscille tout de même avec une gros RIS américain - douceur latente reste marquée, il manque un peu d'oxydation ou d’amertume pour avoir le côté plus anglais. Ce monstre tourne tout de même autour de 14% - malté marqué chocolaté, pas mal de Bourbon qcq éléments UK quand même dont une amertume qui ressort encore fraîche et qui avec le temps risque de complètement disparaître.
Anno 2025.
Brune foncée tirant sur ambre, huileux doré au verre, col fin blanc-cassé.
Gros barleywine qui oscille tout de même avec une gros RIS américain - douceur latente reste marquée, il manque un peu d'oxydation ou d’amertume pour avoir le côté plus anglais. Ce monstre tourne tout de même autour de 14% - malté marqué chocolaté, pas mal de Bourbon qcq éléments UK quand même dont une amertume qui ressort encore fraîche et qui avec le temps risque de complètement disparaître.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2025
at 17:11
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
750cl bottle. really really nice aroma, brown sugar, malts, faint sweet bourbon notes, also more fruity notes like port wine, well blended aroma, very very good. alc. well hidden. complex, not aggressive, i think great sipper quality, but we'll see when i taste it.
flavor is sweet malts and bourbon, licorice, coconut, faint oak. very malty sweet, but it is partly hidden behind a lot of bourbon flavors. end is warming and malty sweet. quite complex, not as crazy good as aroma though.
Amazing how well alc. is hidden and not it the way - just adds body.
flavor is sweet malts and bourbon, licorice, coconut, faint oak. very malty sweet, but it is partly hidden behind a lot of bourbon flavors. end is warming and malty sweet. quite complex, not as crazy good as aroma though.
Amazing how well alc. is hidden and not it the way - just adds body.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Kihoskh
on 22 Oct 2025
at 21:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
0,75l bottle at freunderlwirtschaft, Vienna. Black color, small tan head. Smells molasses, dried fruits, spices, nutty. Nice to very nice smell. Full body, light carbonation. Tastes bourbon, vanilla, spices, nutty, nutmeg. Finishes light to medium sweet with notes of vanilla, nutty and spices. Very nice one
8, 7.5, 8, 7, 8
8, 7.5, 8, 7, 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2025
at 14:27
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9.5
Bottle, 750 ml, shared at the charity tasting at Die Freunderlwirtschaft. Black with beige head. Chocolate, figs, dates, sweet, toffee, heavy caramel. Very smooth. Full bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 23:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2019 bottle at LC member party, 1/17/25.
Dark mahogany. Clear. Little head.
Nutty almost with coffee, chocolate, almond and oak. Not sure where those notes come from ...warming spirit, leading to longer caramel on the end.
Sweet, malty, rich and full of toffee and caramel, drying out a good deal on the warm, bourbon soaked finish. Rich and curly with lots of oak and spice.
Dark mahogany. Clear. Little head.
Nutty almost with coffee, chocolate, almond and oak. Not sure where those notes come from ...warming spirit, leading to longer caramel on the end.
Sweet, malty, rich and full of toffee and caramel, drying out a good deal on the warm, bourbon soaked finish. Rich and curly with lots of oak and spice.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Side Project Brewing
on 18 Jan 2025
at 17:28
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2024
at 20:58
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle pours out cola brown amber color topped with a small tan head. Nose is nice sweet caramel toffee malts bourbon barrel kick and some pitfruit. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts combo great bourbon barrel treatment and some vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2024
at 14:31
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Backlog. Dark brown with beige head. Raisins, molasses, toffee brulee, touch of dark crackers. Lovely.
Tried
on 06 May 2024
at 22:11
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared in Watford - many thanks to Cloin. Pours deep brown with a fine, creamy beige head. Medium to big sweet flavour, nice brown sugar notes, dates, figs, some bourbon and caramel. Full bodied, oily, with fine carbonation. Mellow warmth to finish. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2023
at 22:28
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Panda thanks to Cloin: Poured a oily brown with a bubble head. Aroma is dark fruits, raisin, figs, chocolate, rich malts, molasses, boozy. Taste is boozy, dark fruits blast forward, raisin, rich malts, sticky, bourbon, molasses, rich, lingers on the palate.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2021
at 20:35