Nemesis Barley Wine
(has 2 batches)
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.49
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What's your nemesis? Ours is a Barleywine-style Ale brewed with roasted malts and no shortage of hops for a pleasantly bitter, booming flavor. Pouring with a slight and subtle mahogany hue and a multitude of flavors that will melt on your tongue - this is one nemesis you'll feel good about keeping around.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep mahogany into a tulip. Tan conglomerate head with excellent retention recedes leaving scant sheets. Dark caramel, licorice, raisin and dried stone fruit aromas. Thick with soy and dark chocolate upfront turning to hot licorice and espresso before the warm, lasting charred earth finish.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Aug 2021
at 21:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beer Hop. It pours darkest brown to black with a lasting yellow - tan head. The aroma is rich roasted malt, coffee grounds, nutty, dark chocolate, praline, bitter - sweet vibes, umami, liquorice, dark fruits, Nutella and chewy toffee. The taste is dry, bitter, rich roasted malt, burnt toast, bitter - sweet character, nutty, toasty, praline, dark chocolate, spice, warning booze, chewy, toothy, umami, liquorice, coffee grounds, plum, prune, fig, earth and ash with a drying, charred finish. Fulsome body and moderate carbonation. A rich roasty bastard of a barley wine. A fun sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2021
at 18:41
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle. Dark brown, beige head. Caramel, dark malt, very woody, syrup. Was not into this. Drain poured 80%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2021
at 06:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 11.2%. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, caramel, chocolate and hop. Flavour is roasted malt, caramel, chocolate, hop, medium sweet, pine and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2021
at 22:15
3.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 2
Got this for 2 bucks at the market place in robinson. I'm surprised of the ABV! Big and brown he eye goes. Smell is big malt and a sense of tartness? Big thick alky bomb. Typical attributes of these styles. Probably should be aged. Warming & boozy. This is a lick yer ass beer. Yes, getting the same effects as a whisky drink. To call this wine is hilarious, but I know wheat it means, hehehh. Barley, wheat rye or whatever combo, they pretty much have the same effect and have lots of similar effects. Whew, don't drink 2 of these for lunch! Lay down lay down, lay it all down. Did I say difficult yet? Bad ass fer-sher. Be careful with this mah-fah! Pretty tuff this is. Chewy. Finishes like a 4th of July grand finale. There, you have it. Whewwwieeeee. Extra point for the alky content. Shouldah got one for my friend Brinie.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2021
at 17:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle. Big, bold, true American style Barleywine. Huge malt tone, huge hop tone. Pleasant bitterness leads into a river of sweet medium dark malts. A slow sipper for sure. Quite excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2021
at 06:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark mahogany beer with a dark tan head. Caramel and light toffee aroma with grapefruit and light pine. Caramel and cocoa flavor with grapefruit and light pine. Medium bodied. Caramel and toffee linger with cocoa, grapefruit, and light pine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2021
at 20:02
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours dark brown with a light creamy tan head. Aroma of very roasted malt, not toasted. Arguably full bodied. Dark fruits and heat. Pretty roasted malt. Lots of bitterness. Heat is detectable. Tho it's not sweet there's a Demerara flavor in it. Some cacao seems detectable in the finish. Good flavor, tho the heat pokes into that a bit. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2021
at 01:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
This seems like the same beer as the 2010 version, but I’ll repeat my rating if needed. Opaque, murky brown body with an at first absent head that slowly grew to a thin off-white ring of carbonation hugging the glass. The nose was sweet, reminding me of Black Biscuit, with molasses, brown sugar, bubblegum, and bitter hops. The body is characterized by molasses, chocolate, and chewy cotton candy yielding to a huge, intense sprucy bitterness and alcohol heat. An interesting beer with characteristics of barleywine and black IPA, though a bit harsh.
Tried
from Can
on 19 May 2021
at 05:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - dark ruby brown, nearly black - flavor has a bit too much roasted malt character for the style, imho, tasting almost like a barleywine blended with stout - some brown sugar, light treacle sweetness - copious hoppiness on the tail end reminds you this is an American rendition - some dark fruit and leafy earthiness late - it’s actually pretty good, but could use some age.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2021
at 01:43