Thomas Hardy's Ale (2018-2022)
Interbrau in Villafranca Padovana (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: MeantimeBarley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.53
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Created in 1968 to commemorate the renowned English writer, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is a limited edition barley wine. Numbered and vintage-dated to be stored for years (even over 25 years, according to those who have made it in the past); this legendary beer is finally back in production. A piece of English history we would like to share with you.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Red brown with a trace soapy head. Malty & sweet with toasted caramel, molasses, ripe fruit, leather and dough. Long finish. Full bodied but undercarbonated.
Tried
on 30 May 2021
at 02:18
7/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Thomas Hardy's Ale on 10 May 2024 at 22:16 - Score: 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2021
at 00:50
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2021
at 21:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
33 cl bottle @ home. BBE 19.09.2027. Bottle# 22854 of vintage 2018. Vertical with O’Hanlon’s version from 2008 (#06021) to celebrate my 40th birthday and 10000 ratings! Aroma is surprisingly mild with ripe fruits and sweet raisiny tones. Almost no carbonation at all. Flavour has ripe fruits and raisins. Finishes with warming alcohol and sugary licorice. Quite nice slow sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2021
at 12:11
8.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Smell of raisins. Brown colour, negligible head. Aroma of toffee, syrup, dried fruit, marmalade, other sweet flavours. Super sweet. Viscous, heavy texture and body. Finishes with overripe fruit and plums. Intense flavours. Very nice barley wine.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2021
at 22:20
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
This is the English version from Meantime. Muddy brown pour, a few bubbles. Malty, woody aroma, alcohol. Taste reveals a hint of sweet malts before giving over to the dry, nutty, woody flavors, and ending with a fair amount of alcohol warmth. Beer worthy of my 60th birthday.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2020
at 02:46
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Copper color. Vinous aroma. Malt, hints of oak and caramel. Plums. Malty sweet, caramelly flavor. Slightly alcoholic with plums. No carbon. Some remaining grassy hops. Well matured British barley wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2020
at 22:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Fast gone yellowish head; copperish brown beer, faintly hazed and big-bubbled. Sweet caramel, toffee, lot sweet malts; smelling of alcohol and fusels. Sweet, caramelly, toffee, X-mas cake (with crème Anglaise). Warming up gets a liquorice/drop flavour, and a sharper bitterish note. Oily feel, alcoholheat, not very carbonated. 2 tasters agree; Meantim is doing a fair job, but just cannot reproduce Eldridge Pope, and O'Hanlons was also more to the point.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Siris Pop Up Bar
on 22 Jun 2020
at 08:37
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2020
at 23:24
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2020
at 20:14