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

Bottle from Bierkoning, Amsterdam. Aroma is sweet malt, caramel, dried fruits, apricot, rich grains, some sugary notes, mild touch of alcohol. Flavour is sweet and light bitter with some booze. Body is medium. Both malty and fruity, good Barley Wine.

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

Bottled (Alex, Ville, Mats tasting). Reddish amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is caramel, fruity, raisins, some alcohol, mild pear as well as some sweet malty notes. Flavour is fruity, dry wood, grass, some sweetness, mild alcohol and some earthy and mild spicy/yeasty tones.

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

Bottle. Extensively boiled over direct fire, fermented in open vessels and seven months of maturation this year, according to the label. Color: Lightly hazy ruby to copper, beige head. Aroma: Malty, dried grapes, bit tart and vinuous notes of fortified wine. Taste: Malty, some caramel, dried grapes, fortified wine. Bit boozy. Lightly tart, moderate sweet. Light bitterness. Subtle wood and hints of tannins. Light hints of smoke. Over medium body, below average carbonation. Very dry finish. Another very interesting beer from Butcher's Tears.

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

Bottle shared. Mahogany with creamy beige head. Figs, caramel, sweet herbal candy, walnuts, alcohol, bitter hops. Quite sweet and bitter. Full bodied. Noice.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle bought for me as a present from Holland. Cloudy amber-brown, with more of the latter in this respect. Strong barley-wine with a minor sweetness in its taste, malts and wood otherwise. Has plenty of nose and aftertaste, and is fairly crisp within its style.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Dark brown color. Rubber, dust and oak in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor, caramel, nutty. Dried fruit, soft roast, vinous and rubber. Seems oxidated.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Barleywine by this young and prolific Amsterdam brewer, bottle at GIST in Brussels, thanks Johan for sharing. Pale yellowish beige, medium thick, mousy head, irregularly lacing over a deep purple-hued ruddy bronze-brown beer. Aroma of old oxidized port (and oxidized malts for that matter), old cookies, brown rum, liquorish, candied figs, old wrinkled red apples, stewed plums, caramel sauce, raisins, some varnish-like solvent aspects. Sweet pnset but not too cloying, candied figs, dried prunes and raisins, baked banana touch, sourish undertone, medium carbonation, full and vinous, bit glueish mouthfeel. Very caramelly malt sweet body with oxidized edges, bit old madera-like, peanutty and toffeeish too with a mildly bittering finish, herbal, spiced bread, warming rum-like alcohol and lingering sweetness in the end. Like their imperial stout tasted next to it, rather crude and unrefined for the intended style, seems halfhearted, and the advanced oxidation was not to anyone's liking either (though I personally do not mind a bit of oxidation in a barleywine, I have to add). Passes for me, but not for many others apparently.

Raar