8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500ml bottle, 2025 vintage, thanks Craig & Sarah! Cinnamon aroma with notes of molasses, fig, nutmeg, clove, brandy and oak. Pours dark brown with half a finger of tan head that has some retention and a ring of lacing. Starts with fig, molasses, clove and cinnamon flavors as well as having a rich, full body and smooth mouthfeel. Finishes quite smooth but a bit dry with nutmeg, brandy and oak flavors. Very festive barleywine!

8.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(Bottle) clear, fluorescent bright reddish orange color with a small brown head; intense aroma of figs, compote; thick palate; dryish flavor with a long, medium bitter sweet finish

7.4

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

On tap. Pours a dark brown with light head. Aromas of dark fruit, sour dough and bready malts. Flavors of figs. Lots of figs. Plus more more of that slightly sour fruit/dough. Big. Nice enough.

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7.5

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

Bottle, 10%. Unclear dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, dark fruit, barrel, oak and brandy. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, oak, wood, barrel, dark fruit, sweet, warming, spirit, notes of alcohol and medium bitter.

7

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

Tap. Brown color with small tan ring. Aroma is tobacco, oak sugar, molasses, raisins. Taste is raisins, lots of oak sugar, brandy burn. Medium carbonation. Quite sweet, a bit too unbalanced. Not excellent.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Derek. Big on the pit fruit, figs, dark, English pudding. Smells like fruit cake. Gets better as it warms.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at Beer Baron in Pleasanton. It pours a dark brown color with a creamy khaki head. The aroma has caramel, bread, figs, raisin and a little bourbon. The flavor is smooth with lots of sweet caramel, bread, bourbon and fig. Pretty true to the name and description. A little more oak and bourbon in the finish with plummy raisins. Pretty good. The alcohol is strong. I’d say this is more of a barleywine than anything else.

7.8

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

Bottle from a trade. Many thanks ruddick! Dark brown/black colour, brown foam. Sweet fruity (notes of berries, figs and plums), spicy (cinamon, cloves) and chocolaty sweetness. Strange beer but not bad.

7.4

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

500ml bottle thanks to rick. Pours out a brown with some amber highlights topped with a tan head. nose is spice some sweetness pit fruit. Taste is more of pit fruit notes spice and sweetness.