Killer Penguin Barleywine
Boulder Beer Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
bottle at home ... deep brown ... thin tan lacing ... soft sweet toffee nose bah ... Sweet malts ... big soft caramel toffee ... dry roast ... sweet toffe ... not me at all
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery
Clear copper with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing. Aroma of toasted malts, caramel and woody. Flavors is sweet caramel, malty and woody
Nice
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Rich amber coloured body with a muddy brown highlight and a one centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pit fruits, caramel, toffee, pears, raisins and a subdued yet vibrant alcohol and oak scent. Full-bodied; Strong caramel and pit fruit sweetness throughout with a bit of vanilla, oak and scotch tastes and a little pear and tropical fruit sweetness. Aftertaste is quite complex with malt battling it out with the sugars and showing a touch of peat, alcohol and light spices. Overall, a nicely laced barleywine with some great flavours and a simple complexity despite not being too old. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 04-January-2013 for US$7.49 sampled at home in Washington on Christmas Eve 2013 - December 24th. 2012 Bottle (Wood Circle Marker) // Purchased Jan 2013 // Sampled Dec 2013
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft: Pours red-brown with a small, off-white head. Caramel and fruit aroma. Taste is caramel malt, fruit, spices. Slight alcohol presence, but pretty mild for the ABV. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
bottle. Was not impressed with the first few sips, but I let it sit awhile (let it breathe) and I warmed up to it. Tame for a barleywine, but had some interesting characteristics. Good beer
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 1/31/2010. Pours lightly cloudy deep ruby red color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, raisin, plum, pear, apple, floral, light pine, brown sugar, light nuttiness, and toasted/yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good complexity and balance of dark/toasted malt and dark fruit notes; with good strength. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, raisin, pear, plum, apple, nuttiness, floral, light pine, brown sugar, and toasted/yeast earthiness. Slight pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, raisin, pear, plum, apple, nuttiness, floral, light pine, brown sugar, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and complexity of dark/toasted malt and dark fruit flavors; with a great malt/fruitiness balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and full bodied; with a creamy, slick, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice barleywine style. All around good complexity and balance of malt and dark fruit flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
From a bottle this is some really strong happy BS. Smells a little perfumy scary, malty and sweetly volatile. Its difficult for me to appreciate these beers for what they are without years and years of aging. Thick and viscous it looks sitting in the glass. Looks like a darker cloudy hefe. Perhaps the looks of a lighter dunkelwesen. Wow, just the smallest sip leaves a kick ass impression in the mouth. How could this every be a beer by cheap lager standards? Never. More like the rudest wine I’ve ever tasted. Should not be in the same style as Harvey’s. Nasty Nellie, may I say? Very difficult fer sure. No co2 or any I can detect over the mouthy impact in the flavors. Forgettabout it. wew. put this in a trunk in your attic fer 10 years and hope you never find it. Did penguins accidently do droppings in this before it was fermented? Do you think it would develop those sherry qualities after 10 years? If you are into American wannah bee barley wines, try this and ignore my numbers, could never figure out the purpose of these brews.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber from Wooden Keg Hagerstown, 2010 vintage. Pours a hazy red-amber color with a large creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of toffee malts, citrus hops, some candied citrus. The taste is toffee malts, citrus hops. Medium bodied, slight lingering bitterness and some mild oxidation notes, but this has held up extremely well and is absolutely fucking delicious right now.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2011 Bottle. Pours reddish amber with tan head. Nose/taste of brown sugar, caramel, malt, toffee and sweet malt. Some medicinal notes. Light to medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 12/28/11, 2011 Bottle, covered in Red Wax
Aroma: The nose is fairly sweet, with mostly fruit and caramel notes, and a touch of booze too
Appearance: The pour is a mostly clear dark reddish-amber color with a small beige head
Flavor: The taste is medium-heavy sweet, minimal bitterness, with mostly fruity and malty flavors to it
Palate: Medium bodied, with a sticky, almost cloying mouthfeel, finish has minimal heat and dryness
Overall Impression: I thought this was a decent beer, but something was missing from making it a great Barley Wine. I also found it to me a touch on the one-dimensional side (sweet), and the almost cloyingness of that sweetness. I liked it, but I still felt like it was missing something slightly.