Arquebus
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.27
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iphonephan (11575) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a bottle vintage 2017. Pours a hazy cider with an off white head. Aromas of honey and toffee. Flavors are sweet brown sugar with some wine barrel grape notes in the finish. Seems to have aged well.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Cambridge Brewing, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out wonderful bourbon character, with a little vanilla and some toffee. Flavour is intense, with heavy bourbon, some tart stone fruits, lots of alcohol, and some vanilla. Abrasive but nicely designed. Good stuff.
superspak (10160) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
375 ml bottle into snifter; 2017 vintage bottling. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy golden amber/light orange color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, fig, date, red apple, white grape, white wine, toasted oak, honey, caramel, and biscuit; with lighter notes of toffee, oaken vanilla, brown sugar, leather, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity yeast, grapes, honey, wine barrels, and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, fig, date, red apple, white grape, white wine, toasted oak, honey, caramel, and biscuit; with lighter notes of toffee, oaken vanilla, brown sugar, leather, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light herbal/grassy bitterness, wine/oak tannin spiciness, and grape tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, fig, date, red apple, white grape, white wine, toasted oak, honey, caramel, biscuit, toffee, vanilla, brown sugar, leather, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity yeast, grapes, honey, wine barrels, and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness, fruit tartness, and wine tannin spiciness balance; with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness, grape tang/tartness, and wine/oak tannin spiciness. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky, and lightly slick/sticky/tangy/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 12%, with zero barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is an incredible English barelywine! All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity yeast, grapes, honey, wine barrels, and bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/tart/tangy finish. More of a Blonde barleywine, but this just nails it all around. Very rich with perfectly balanced malts, honey, fruity yeast, and wine barrel complexity. A highly enjoyable offering.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Golden, with some sweet sugars, and this stickiness carries through. Light fruitiness. Decent example but by no means killing it.
WingmanWillis (38284) ticked Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 8 years ago
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Thnx to Ben. Pours clear blonde, small white head. Smell is bit complex, honey, powder sugar ( is that even known in english ) Taste is full, sweet, again I get this powder sugar , which I never had before in a beer , but is truly there for me. I like it though. Bit complex maltyness (biscuits, caramel, but mostly honey ) . Very unusual barleywine. Yet I do like it !
Jow (8309) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home, when watching darker films I prefer higher abv brew. Lighter orange pour. Nose is fruity, wine, and honey. Tastes of honey, peach, tangerine, melon, banana, white wine, and hint of booze. Sweet and almost cocktail like on palate. A fine elixer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. White head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Mild booze and summer fruit aromas. Hot caramel, yeast, and fresh summer pit fruit front to back.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy golden brown. very sweet floral nose. With a touch of honey. Some bananas. Very sweet. Mildly yeasty. Spice and fennel and walnuts
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at the brewpub. This was listed as 14%. Orange-copper color with no head or bubbles. Sweet, oxidized huge honey and caramel aroma with port and grape notes like a sweet Sauternes. Big alcohol. Syrupy and sour flavor with big grapes and honey, burning alcohol and oak. Doesn’t really do it for me.