Barleywine (through 2008)
(Batch of Barleywine)
Legend Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.44
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2005 Vintage = 11.8%
2006 Vintage = 11.5%
Early 2007 Vintage = 12.5%
Late 2007 Vintage = 11.5%
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Late vintage 2007. Bottle from dkachur, thanks, Dan! Reddish brown color. Vinous aroma with grape juice, banana, plastic and rubber. Full bodied. Sweet, malty flavor with rubber, banana, grapes, apricot. A bit like cheap plum brandy. Flowery and citric hopbitterness reveal themselves in the aftertaste. Could be better, although the complexity is there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at a friends house. From notes. Loads of caramel, toffee, reason, figs, burnt malt and a hint of sweet fruit. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2007 Vintage 12.5% abv shared by a friend. Pours a slightly murky solid dark brown color with a decent sized off white head that quickly dissipates to a ring on top. Well it smells like a barleywine. Lots of dark sugar and fruit with a touch of warming alcohol, cherries, prunes and plums mixed with dark drown sugar. The flavor is spot on, lots of caramel and brown sugar coated cherries, raisins, plums, and a hint of earthy spice and warming alcohol. Medium to thick body with a light to moderate level of carbonation and a sweet almost syrupy mouthfeel. Wow that is a mighty fine aged barleywine from a brewery that up until today I hadn’t heard of. Well done!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
2005 bottle shared by footbalm, thanks
Appearance: Dark brown with a small off-white/orange head and some light lacing
Aroma: Brown sugar, tobacco and toffee
Taste: Smooth mouthfeel. Brown sugar, toffee, earthy with some tartness in the finish
Awesome nose and a good beer, I could have just smelt that glass all night.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 22fl.oz.Unclear medium to dark amber orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, caramel, tobaco, light moderate hoppy, overriped fruit, vitamin tablets. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090922]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with an orangey head. The aroma has strong notes of over ripe fruits, caramel, nuts, and malt. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of over ripe fruit, caramel soup, malt, and a bit of alcohol, leading to a dry caramel malty finish with a light alcohol note. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy dark orange with a small tan head. Aroma is dense malty, overripe fruity and roasted. Sweet malty, metallic and slight yeasty flavoured. Light sweetness and roasted caramelish flavoured. Lingering metallic flavoured into a dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Vintage 2007, 2 years old
Cloudy red-amber color; small creamy head. Mature malt and caramel aroma, light aroma of sweet nuts, light cookies. Good malty flavor, caramel, light cookies and nuts; mature; correct bitterness. Solid and balanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of fiver29. Pours a hazy amber with a creamy, beige and lacing head. Strange aroma of bonbons, tea and tobacco. Solid body, oxidized, overripe fruit and caramel. Some vitamin C also. Slightly bitter but quite some alcohol. A strange Barley Wine - almost more British in style. 220909
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
courtesy of jdubfl.2008 bottle pours amber, no head. Aroma and taste, sweet sugary caramel, some dark fruits with lingering palate that remains very sugary, notes of bitter fruits in the finish.