Back Burner - Oak Aged
Southern Tier Brewing Company in Lakewood, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.63
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
8.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 2/15/2012. Pours slightly hazy deep ruby red color with a 1 finger dense cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big orange zest, caramel, raisin, molasses, toast, toffee, oak, floral, pine, grass, and floral earthiness. Fantastic aromas with great balance and complexity of malt notes with moderate hop and oak balance. Taste of orange zest, caramel, raisin, toast, toffee, brown sugar, brown bread, floral, pine, oak, grass, and floral earthiness. Minimal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of orange zest, raisin, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toast, brown bread, floral, light pine, and hop earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity and balance of deep malt flavors with moderate hop balance; and zero cloying sweetness present after the finish. Medium carbonation and moderately full bodied; with a creamy, fairly slick, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is very nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with hardly any warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a highly excellent barleywine! All around nice balance and complexity of malt flavors with moderate hops; and dangerously smooth to sip on. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2013
at 21:09
7.2/10
—
Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle is a little over a year old. Aroma is balanced between malt and woodsy hops with a bit of alcohol in the finish. The malt aroma is caramel and burnt toast with a bit of dark fruit - prunes and raisins. Hints of burnt candi sugar. Pours a fairly clear brown with some burnt amber notes. Small light tab head that persists very nicely. No lacing and medium sized legs. Flavor is toasted bread of varying degrees of darkness and some dark caramel. There is also some woodsy hop notes but they are light compared to the aroma. Light alcohol spice in the finish. Only faint oak character, very light. The malt complexity isn't as nice as is old have expected. Sweet but not too sweet. No dark malt character or much dark fruit. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium low carbonation. Astringency is low and alcohol warmth is medium low. A bit watery in the finish. Overall and acceptable beer but not amazing. The hop aroma and flavor isn't as nice as it could be and the malt isn't super complex. It could have more complexity in the caramel notes. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2013
at 20:57
7.9/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Peanut hull, walnut, honey, and orange flavor. Hazy copper, medium yellow head. Overripe orange flavor, finishing with walnuts. Full body. Solid and well balanced, but would prefer a more assertive hop profile.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2013
at 17:36
8.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are rich hops, dried fruits, wood, caramel and malt. Full bodied and long bitter finish. Yummy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2013
at 13:40
7.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
15.cl glass at the beer temple. Very thick white head. Clear amber pour. Lovely brew. Sweet but the oak balances it out nicely.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2013
at 12:57
7.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
65 cl bottle @ olio, no BBE info
Aroma is sweet with ripe fruits, oaky notes, caramel and some vanilla – also some gluey notes at the end of the glass. Flavour is sweet with hops, fruits, caramel, vanilla and woody notes. Feels like an American strong ale with some oak added. Feels a bit flat – perhaps this could be better more fresh. Then again, what is a ’fresh’ oak aged beer?
Aroma is sweet with ripe fruits, oaky notes, caramel and some vanilla – also some gluey notes at the end of the glass. Flavour is sweet with hops, fruits, caramel, vanilla and woody notes. Feels like an American strong ale with some oak added. Feels a bit flat – perhaps this could be better more fresh. Then again, what is a ’fresh’ oak aged beer?
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 08:06
7.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle
Pours dark orange with a white head. Aroma of sweet caramely malts, syrup, hints of oak and wood. Taste is sweetish malty, caramely, hints of syrup and hops. Finish is warming, syrupy and sweetish with some malts, hints of vanilla. Okay, quite sweet and malty barley wine.
Pours dark orange with a white head. Aroma of sweet caramely malts, syrup, hints of oak and wood. Taste is sweetish malty, caramely, hints of syrup and hops. Finish is warming, syrupy and sweetish with some malts, hints of vanilla. Okay, quite sweet and malty barley wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 08:03
8.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 9.6%. Slightly hazy dark amber/brown with medium beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toffee, oak and wood. Flavour is malt, medium sweet, caramel, toffee, oak, wood, hop, little vanilla and a little bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2012
at 09:47
8.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Sampled from bottle thanks to Joes. Clear reddish color, virtually no head. Smell malts, slightly wood, slightly sweet, a slight hint of hops. Taste malts, some sweetness, lightly resin, lightly alcohol and a slight hint of wood. Full body, medium to full carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2012
at 14:44
8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thx to joes. Ruby to brown colour with no head. Smells very sweet, resin, pine, raisins, syruppy, alcohol. Tastes quite sweet, some cherries, oak, barley, pine, syruppy.. Lots of wood in the taste. Full body, thick feel, soft carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2012
at 14:36