7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Fermentoren CPH, Hoppy People TTO 08/05/2024 Toasted and sweet malty with lots of toffee and caramel sweetness, dried fruit shred, spices, medium body, red wine soaked wooden accents into the spiced warming malty close. --- Beer merged from original tick of Clash of the Titans - Grand Cru on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:30 - Score: 7. Original review text: Toasted and sweet malty with lots of toffee and caramel sweetness, dried fruit shred, spices, medium body, red wine soaked wooden accents into the spiced warming malty close.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft, taster. @Fermentoren, Copenhagen (Denmark). 08/05/2024 [#7.107 Global - #18 Switzerland - #9 Hoppy People] Pours deep amber with a minimal white head. Aroma: oak wine barrels, grape skin, esters and yeast. Taste: deep wine oak barrels and esters. Deep full palate. Next one please!

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap @ Fermentoren, Copenhagen. Hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, wood and white wine. Flavor is quite sweet. Swet finish. Soft. 080524

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

aroma is nutty malty, bit of funk, damp wine cellar walls, hoppy fruitiness, wood, faint sweet grapes.. quite complex, not an aroma-bomb in intensity but very refined. flavor is wood and faint grapes, sweet nutty malts, strong alc bitterness, lingering complex sweetness from both grapes and hops and wood i think, quite the boozy barley wine, it's almost more like a wood lagered strong belgian ale than a wood lagered barley wine, there seems to be quite a lot of yeasty and fruity flavors in there. so a decent European style strong barley wine, barrel aged.

8

Magus, mõru, hapukas, linnaseline, veinine, pärmine, nats hapukas. Hea, huvitav maitsebukett.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Surprisingly blond beer, a golden color, a head is quite small and blond. Aroma has sweet fruitness, lots of grapes, raisin, some alcohol. Taste has sweet dried fruitness, grape, apples, some drying alcohol. Full bodied. Slightly boozy, could be more complicated... shame because there are nice trying.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Wine barrel aged version of Struise’s Clash of the Titans barleywine, in collaboration with Swiss Hoppy People. Snow white, medium thick, opening head lacing in shreds over a remarkably clear (till the end – filtered!), ‘old gold’ beer with deep ‘metallic’-orange hue and visible sparkling. Aroma of white port, dry biscuit, ‘amandelspijs’, honey liqueur, strong vanilla-scenting oak wood everywhere, sweet red apple, white grapes, hints of green banana, tea, chicken stock and cheese spread. Sweet onset, Doyenné pear, slight pineapple and candied peach, medium carbonated, supple mouthfeel – a tad vinous, but feeling lighter than expected at this strength; biscuity maltiness with slight caramelly edge, dryish, with a hop bitter note in the end buried under strong oakiness (a bit astringent even) and, adding a wave of joyful colours, the wine effect, manifesting itself in a more fortified wine-like way (white port or even marsala) than actual wine, lacking in the tartness wine barrel ageing typically brings; almond, vanilla (oak!) and sugary honey sweetness linger at the back, highlighted by warming, brandy-like booziness. Dry core with sweet accents here, but the basic dryness keeps it very drinkable (compared with many other present-day barleywines) and a lot happens here, shifting from candied fruit over fortified wine to oak and back; why they decided to filter it, remains unclear to me, but it certainly remains a complex ‘bière de dégustation’ – better than expected, even, since I did not like the basic Clash of the Titans that much.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

clear golden colour, medium sized, dense, ecru-ish head, which disappears in a few minutes leaving back a correct ecru lacing; aroma of intensive dried apricot and vanilla, grape peel, grape juice and some earthy-wine cellary notes; taste of syrupy sweetness with dired fruity (mainly apricot), hoppy bittery, vanilla, slight acetic acidy and spicy alcoholic notes; similar to the white wine edition with a bit more complexity - not bad

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Comparing all three versions of this beer with my brother and my girlfriend. Pours a very clear gold with a very small, almost nonexistent head. Aroma is malty, floral, vinous, grapes, nutmeg, spices. Big body. Flavour is malty, quite sweet, rich. Spices, some caramel, a little vinous. Not as smooth as the red wine version but smoother than the white wine edition. Finish is bittersweet and somewhat boozy. Nice.