Hanlons Brewery Brewers Special Reserve

Brewers Special Reserve

 

Hanlons Brewery in Exeter, Devon, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
7.12
ABV: 12.9% IBU: - Ticks: 56
As O’Hanlon’s Brewers Special Reserve
 

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--- Beer merged from original tick of Brewers Special Reserve 2010 on 07 Jan 2015 at 13:03 - Score: 9
Tried on 07 Jan 2015 at 13:03

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at the RBESG 2014, grand tasting 10/08/2014 Craft Beer Co Clerkenwell. 2010 bottle. Ruby red / caramel coloured pour with a small half of head. Aroma is salty miss soyup, dark fruit and berry. Flavour is rum, raisin, viscous, some solvent, some age. Palate is lowish body, viscous, low carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2014 at 09:50

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Mitchell’s Wines, Sheffield. Clear, dark amber. Halo of white. Sweet, treacle woodiness. Some vegetable water. Taste is heavy sweet. Not unlike a fortified wine. Relief by way of a light, vinous dryness. Palate is as chewy and thick as it gets. Loads of booze. Blimey, this is tasty gear. Getting some overripe pear juice now. This beer is all in the taste, and on the palate. Slick, boozy, chewy barley wine, that took me by surprise with its downright bigness. The tastiest £2.50 I’ve ever spent! Which is probably a bit of a bargain...
Tried from Bottle on 10 Oct 2014 at 17:11

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle @ RBESG 2014 Sunday Tasting. Vintage 2010. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit aroma. Sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy caramel and dark fruit finish.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2014 at 03:28

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
How: Bottle.
Where: RBESG 14 not so grand tasting.
Appearance: Clear brown colour, no head.
Aroma: Sweet malt, caramel, dried fruit, vinous.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Sweet, malt, caramel, dried fruit, raisin, plum, alcohol.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2014 at 13:06

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
RBESG grand tasting part 2
Cloudy amber with a small beige, no lacing. Aroma is woody and sweet malts. Flavors are woody, dark ripe fruit and caramel
Decent
Tried on 23 Aug 2014 at 23:41

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle - Vintage 2010 - Raisin, plum and dark sugars. Muddy brown with almost no head. Prunes, dark sugars and some woody notes. Woody slight sweet and bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2014 at 12:06

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Dark amber, absolutely no head. Vinous aroma of ripe plums, port and dried fruits. No carbonation.
Tried on 05 Apr 2014 at 13:22

8.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 10 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
Vintage 2010. Perfekcyjne Barley Wine w angielskim stylu. Wyglad tej malej buteleczki jest ladny, piwo wyglada natomiast gozej bo jest calkowicie bez piany. Na jezyku wyczuwalny smak toffi i syropu nuty porto i sherry byly dosc wyrazne. po przelknieciu trufle mi sie jeszcze na mysl nasywaly. Kolor czerwonawo brazowy, dosc ciemny. Porto w tym piwie takze dosc wyrazne. Moze bylo za bardzo slodkie, alkoholu mnostwo co bylo wyczuwalne w koncowce, ale i tak w swoim gatunku niemal doskonale.
Tried on 08 Jan 2014 at 10:39

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled vintage 2010 12.9% Hazy chestnut brown color, tiny head. Toffee, alcohol, some Madeira in the nose. Full-bodied. Sweetish toffee, some ageing notes, Madeira, lots of malts. Typical English.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2013 at 06:28