Clash Of The Titans Grand Reserva
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Hoppy PeopleBarley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production
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7.50
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Havnens Vin & Tobakhus (vintage year brew date: 2018-10-02). Pours muddy dark brown with a tiny white head. Aroma is intense dried yeast, Vegemite, caramel, syrup, nutmeg, cola, port wine, and liquorice root. Taste is medium to very sweet, light bitter, light to medium acidic, and light salty. Body is watery with light carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and acidic with intense notes of caramel, dried yeast, Vegemite, oak barrel, syrup, nutmeg, cola, port wine, and sultana raisins and dried figs. Knowing that the ABV is rather high, it actually feels a bit thin. It is also too sour for a barley wine (if you ask me).
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Hapukas, puuviljane, mõrkjas, linnaseline, veinine, alksi katab hästi. Ok.
Booze soaked raisins and prunes. Tonnes of sherry. Woody. Warming.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 330 ml, shared with Luka, MiroB and Bojan. Brown with no head. Caramel, fruity, dried fruit, some alcohol. Bit thin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Poured dark cola color with a small light off-white head. Aroma was light tartness, cherry, berry. Light port, vinous. Raisin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a bottle vintage 2018. Pours a mostly clear amber with a scant ecru head. Aromas of cherry pit fruits. Flavor has some sweetness tempered by tartness. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Plum and sherry. Some raspberry, oak. Dark brown pour without much head. Tangy finish. Bottle.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl pours a clear garnet amber. Legs. No head. Nose is port and sherry, malt and some persimmon. Flavor has umami and tomato. Sherry. Bordeaux. Full bodied. Feels every bit of 12.6%.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
On tap at Bier Paleis Brugge. End of the keg. Hazy brown beer thin beige head. Raisins dry oloroso sherry aroma. Oh wow. That's so much better than I was expecting. I thought it might be tired or oxidised. But it's fresh and tasty. Good biscuit, cake, treacle jam sponge. A great beer. Tasty as hell. Good strawberry jam. Good treacle flavour. Good Raisins and sultanas flavour. Some biscuit/ cake. Lovely. Really impressive. Some wine character comes through.