Fremont Brewing Company 13th Anniversary

13th Anniversary

 

Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸

  Barley Wine - Barley Special
Score
7.81
ABV: 13.6% IBU: 25 Ticks: 31
13th Anniversary Golden Barleywine Ale is a celebration of Fremont Brewing’s Golden Birthday and 13th Anniversary. This blend is a ~new~ golden barleywine recipe that was inspired by our recipe of Aurelius. We blended a small component of aged barleywine, which accentuated the subtle flavors of vanilla, maple, honey, oak, and leather from aging in 8-13-year-old Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. Each sip is more special than its last.

Thank you all for being a part of this journey of experimenting, pushing the limits with new recipes, and supporting our passions for our barrel-aged program. Cheers to 13 years and many more!

Down & Dirty: Maris Otter, Maris Otter Pale, Carafa 2, and White Wheat with Columbus, US Goldings, and Chinook hops
ABV: 13.6% IBU: 25
Color: Light mahogany
Aroma: Caramel, vanilla, whiskey notes and sweet aromatics with some toffee, oak and dried fruit
Flavor: Moderately sweet and lightly bitter with subtle lingering and with moderate lingering sweetness; in medium body with a definite alcohol warmth, moderate carbonation and slight mouthwatering

Availability: Released August 13, 2022 in celebration of our 13th anniversary
Fresh Range: Age this beer, or try one now...go on.
 

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7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home shared with Laura. Reddish color, small beige head. Aroma is malts, raisins, liquor, light plums and figs. Flavor is malts, raisins, toffee lightly, liquor, quite bitter in the end. There's an initial sweetish flavor, but then that fades and there's a raisin sweetness, and then that passes too into a liquor bitterness. Quite good. Old school almost. A little bit thinner than I would have liked but still pretty nice.

Tried on 27 Nov 2025 at 22:45


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Tried on 09 Aug 2024 at 20:14


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at Bridge and Tunnel. Pours amber. Toffee, biscuit, caramel apple, strawberry, vanilla. Medium body. Really good.

Tried from Draft on 23 Jun 2024 at 04:34


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Panda thanks to Cloin: Poured an amber orange with a off white head. Aroma is boozy, bourbon, dark fruits, caramel. Taste is boozy, toffee, bourbon, sticky, dark fruits, alcohol.

Tried on 06 May 2024 at 01:47


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at CBJ - cheers to Dave. Pours clear copper with a small, creamy off-white head. Medium sweet flavour, notes of toasted malts, caramel, bready malts. Medium to full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, lightly warming, more bready malts, toffee. Tasty if sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2024 at 20:27


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

11th January 2024
Craft Beer Junction bottleshare, thanks to Wingman. Pretty much a clear amber beer, small bubbly cream colour head. Airy palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Airy malts, a thin light creamy sweetness. Very mild biscuity caramel. Boozy bourbon barrel fruits, not overly boozy. Ripe crystallised fruits. Nice, I do like these Fremont barleywines but I still don't quite get the reverance they are held in.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2024 at 20:18



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

Bittle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks to Wingman. A clear deep. Amber orange coloured pour with a halo of off white head. Aroma is semi sweet, white grape, sherry, caramel, toffee, dried fruit vanilla, oak. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, dried apple, woody. Alcohol bite, toffee, apple, sherry notes. Palate is semi sweet woody tannin, alcohol fine carbonation. Ok.

Tried on 11 Jan 2024 at 19:53


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Medium amber, kinda murky. Thin head. Aroma has some bubblegum, but on the palate it'�s cleaner. Sticky sugars, figs, light orange peel. Some alcohol in the finish. Decent barley wine but could do without the wonky bubblegum phenols.

Tried on 11 Jan 2024 at 04:41


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle split at the CBJ share, thanks to the Wingmane, 11/01/2024.
Deep amber topped with an off white cap that thins to the edge.
Nose is coconut, toffee fudge, fruit rinds, ripe old barrel.
Taste comprises airy malts, coconut shavings, caramel, dark fruits, vanilla, caramelised sugars.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising boost.
Solid kit.

Tried on 11 Jan 2024 at 00:00