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Hidden Springs Ale Works in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.63
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English-style barleywine aged in apple brandy barrels
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle split at the 2nd CBJ tasting, group share, 31/08/23. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a beige cap that thins edgewards. Nose is toffee, spice, chocolate, earthy fruits, brown sugar dusting. Taste comprises toffee fudge, dark fruit rinds, dates, molasses, mellow brandy barrel, vanilla, spice. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced cloak of booze. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2023
at 20:46
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared in London. Cheers! Pours clear, deep brown with reddish highlights and a small, foamy tan head. Medium to big sweet flavour with tasty malt character, some toasted toffee, stewed fruits, light berry notes, a nip of cake, and earth. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish, toasted malts, fruity notes, subtle wood, stewed berries, earth, bread, toffee, figs. Very nice sauce.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2023
at 22:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
31st August 2023
Craft Beer Junction bottleshare. Thanks to the group. Hazy deep amber beer, small tan head. Smooth palate, fairly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Good creamy caramel malts, but thin and dry. Spicy fruity bourbon, rich and rewarding.
Craft Beer Junction bottleshare. Thanks to the group. Hazy deep amber beer, small tan head. Smooth palate, fairly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Good creamy caramel malts, but thin and dry. Spicy fruity bourbon, rich and rewarding.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2023
at 20:04
8.5/10
Lovely. Good bitterness, yet also definitely some malty sweetness. Raisins. Quite barrel forward, but the combination works well.
Tried
from Draft
at
BeerTemple
on 28 Nov 2022
at 23:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Tap at BeerTemple, Amsterdam, 2nd November 22. Pours a chestnut brown, aroma is apple, brandy, liquor and barrel, with caramel, taste is intense apple brandy and apples, dark malts, booze, barrel, fun stuff
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2022
at 19:21
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft @ Bishops Arms Gustav, Malmö. Pours a dark brown black color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty woody vanilla chocolate aroma. Fruity malty woody vanilla chocolate flavor. Has a fruity malty woody chocolate finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2022
at 17:57
8/10
Tried
on 31 Mar 2022
at 19:11