Intrepid Orchid
Bottle Logic Brewing in Anaheim, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating|
Score
7.91
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Intrepid Orchid is a formidable 13.25% ABV barleywine built on Chevallier Heritage malt, then aged with Madagascar vanilla beans using the same intricate method we apply to Fundamental Observation, our legendary Imperial Vanilla Stout.
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9/10
Stacked chocolate caramel nose, even fills the room a bit in delicious cake smell, but the flavor is straight vanilla caramel boozy, lots of vanilla, almost like there's a bean in every bottle. Boozy vanilla balances out nicely somehow, oh so smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2022
at 13:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500 ml. Aroma has notes of vanilla, oak, bourbon, soy sauce, raisin, smoke, licorice. Pours very dark brown with a half finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is highly sweet with a light tartness and flavors like the aroma. Very rich.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2022
at 03:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with small tan head. The aroma is strong vanilla, toffee, dark fruit, booze. Slick body, toffee, vanilla bean, cocoa, roast, wood, boozy finish, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2022
at 22:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Bottle Logic, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma is rather restrained, with gentle vanilla beans, and some odd earthiness (maybe from the barrels). Flavour is incredibly rich, with a rather insane amount of vanilla beans upfront, followed by lots of treacly toffee and heavy bourbon barrels. Maybe not as cohesive and refined as some of their other heavy hitters, but it's certainly complex and delicious. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 May 2022
at 05:09
9.5/10
Woah, this is one sweet ass vanilla bomb. Incredibly decadent, very sweet and loads of vanilla. Not much of a barleywine remains, besides the warming base. Is vanilla wine a thing? Sweet bourbin fills any places where vanilla didn't go. Delicious and mad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2021
at 23:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Billy T. It pours cloudy purple - brown with a small yellow - tan head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, charred, woody, burnt toast, jammy berry, fruit compote, blackberry, blackcurrant and candy. The taste is slick, oily, juicy, tangy, boozy, charred wood, earthy, burnt toast, fruit compote, jammy berry, victoria sponge cake, blackberry, blackcurrant and candied berry with slick, tangy finish. Fulsome body and moderate carbonation. Fun stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2021
at 18:34
8/10
Massive vanilla overdose
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2021
at 16:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml bottle. Sweet, caramely malty and heavy with vanilla notes, some bourbon, toffee, syrup and earthiness. Quite heavy on the vanilla notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2021
at 13:37
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
32oz crowler pours with a fairly clear mahogany colored body that supports a nice tan head of foam. The aroma offers up loads of fresh vanilla beans followed by molasses mixed with simmering brown sugar drenched plums with rich supple boozy bourbon in the background. The taste delivers similar notes with a wide load of yummy dessert like vanilla bean flowing slowly toward molasses and caramel soaked plums and dates. To midway the smooth nearly candy like bourbon notes bubble to the surface with a restrained amount of boozy burn and kind of a toasted ok note in tow. This is really nice but the degree of vanilla makes this more of a dessert rather than a smooth English Barleywine sipper. Dialing back the vanilla a bit and this would be not just great but stellar.
Tried
from Crowler
on 01 Mar 2021
at 02:56
9/10
Super vanilla forward, kinda has an oxidized twang
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2020
at 19:29