Fourteen
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production|
Score
6.82
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Brewed For Fourteen Years of Beers
Presenting Fourteen, our massive barleywine aged in Parker Heritage Wheat Whiskey barrels and Tattersall orphan spirit barrels. Rich malt character defines this beer, offering notes of caramel, toasted bread, and toffee combined with a kiss of hops, all finished by vanilla, oak, cocktail bitters, and burnt sugar flavors from the barrels.
Presenting Fourteen, our massive barleywine aged in Parker Heritage Wheat Whiskey barrels and Tattersall orphan spirit barrels. Rich malt character defines this beer, offering notes of caramel, toasted bread, and toffee combined with a kiss of hops, all finished by vanilla, oak, cocktail bitters, and burnt sugar flavors from the barrels.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
GTMW 2023. Aged in Parkers Reserve. Whiskey is not noticeable, quite dry, bitter and hoppy, just a hint of sweet malt. Not my thing.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2024
at 16:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint can pours with a clear copper gold body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up loads of whiskey barrel character and booze as well as a blend of molasses, raisins, malt balls and vanilla. The taste delivers sweet fairly supple whiskey blended with spicy oak, mildly bright booze and vanilla. Behind the forward tasting barrel notes are all too timid notes of raisins, dates, molasses and a faint sense of malts. This spent too much time in contact with the treatment and the beer essence has been crushed wafer thin. The contact time can be dialed back a fair amount. (try a side by side with a BA Cigar City barleywine for comparison).
Tried
from Can
on 18 Feb 2021
at 04:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
The aromas are heavy yeast with toffee, whiskey, and oak. Flavors are similar to nose, very sweet and out of balance. Maybe some aging would help. Boozy. A sipper for sure.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2020
at 05:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Boxed pint can (yes a single boxed can) from Woodman's Appleton, 12/25/20. Hazy amber, large frothy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of oak, leather, vanilla, toffee, stone fruit. Taste is booze, oak, pine, mint, citrus. Full bodied, boozy. Needs age. Smells great but taste is kinda janky. Overall, decent, but immature.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2020
at 05:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Beer in a can in a box - for 12 bucks! - such is the state of craft beer, but I shan’t complain since I am complicit in perpetuating such things - anyway - hazy medium orange - nose is musky citrus, oak, whiskey, vanilla - low carbonation, round and full in the mouth - Amarillo is an odd hop choice here, and I am not sure it works all that well with the whiskey, which is quite prominent in the flavor, the finish in particular - caramelized sugars, candied citrus, oak, a bit of earthy cheesy character - boozy finish - meh.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Oct 2020
at 01:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can shared by Brian, thanks! Pours near clear golden amber with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has a nice whiskey note with sweet grains and a note of caramel. Flavor has a nice whiskey and sweet grain combination with a nice toffee note supporting.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2020
at 00:32