Plum Barleywine (Cellar Series)
Põhjala in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Barley Wine - Barley Series|
Score
7.51
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A Plum Liqueur BA Barleywine brewed with Mirabelle plums.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle. Mahogany beer with a tan head. Plum and dark fruit aroma with caramel. Big plum flavor with caramel, light toffee, and light cocoa. Medium bodied. Big plum and dried fruit linger with caramel.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2025
at 21:42
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 26/6/2025. Pours a deep brown with the barest of heads. The nose features stewed plums, with some vinous notes. On the sip, it's punchy, sweet and sharp - plums again dominating with some, dates raisins and a touch of caramel. It's on the dessertish side, but there's a tart light sour giving it great balance. You get the barrel aged, boozy side of it, but it's not super pronounced. Has an oily, slick mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. A substantial, lovely, fruity fireside sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Plonk
on 26 Jun 2025
at 08:42
8.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8
Small tan rim over deep dark-brown beer. -1 point for the #*#§!!%%! wax. Deep rum/whisky nose with wine-drenched wood and indeed plums (though blind I would have guessed blue plums rather than mirabelles). Sweet-sourish. Alcoholic-fruity; raisins, plums, prunes, stonefruit, vinous. Marvellous balance between all the flavours, blending in. Rich alcoholic, warm feel, undercarbonated, voluptuous. Despite the alcohol, one would keep sipping this. Definitely one of Põhjala's outstanding ones.
Tried
from Bottle
from
De Caigny Dranken
on 01 Jun 2025
at 07:36
7/10
Fruity syrup plum jam
Tried
on 04 May 2025
at 17:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Big plum and then some. Dark malts, more fruity notes, plum. Lightly some tartness, moderate sweet, alcohol. Body is medium. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2025
at 00:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from the tap @ MBCC 2023 blue session (finally adding my notes). Dark brown with small beige head. Plummy, mild booze, dried fruit, decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jan 2025
at 12:26
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Dark brown with off white head - Dark malt and a fruity aroma - Dark Malt body with a good fruity flavour with some wood barrel flavours as well - Dark malt and fruity flavours goes into the finish - This was real good
Tried
on 06 Jan 2025
at 18:26
2.8/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 3
Overall 10
Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2024
at 12:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle that I picked up a long while ago but have completely forgotten where from... maybe, Beyond Beer webshop, Hamburg (I think?) Enjoying this in a carpark/camping area sat in Frank, St. Oswald-Riedlhütte Friday 9th August 2024 listening to Humanist - On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World after a 17km loop hike and Pesto Lasagna for tea. Loz says this is dirty brown, I thought that I could see a lot of red in it when pouring. Super tangy but sweetness, it's tart with big plummy touches, the barrel ageing is not at all pushy, this is lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2024
at 20:41
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle shared, black beer, small head. Aroma is plum, fruit, barrel. Taste is the same, sweet, fruit, plum, malt, roast, chocolate. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2024
at 20:28