Bevog Brewery Dreams 2023

Dreams 2023
(Batch of Dreams)

 

Bevog Brewery in Bad Radkersburg, Styria, Austria 🇦🇹

  Barley Wine - Barley Special
Score
7.80
ABV: 19.6% IBU: - Ticks: 58
Oh sweet, sweet Dreams, how we missed you… We’re extremely thrilled and proud to announce the latest rendition of our phenomenal Barrel Aged Icebock - Dreams. A testament to our masterful Barrel Aged Barleywine, where every bit of aroma and flavour has been concentrated and elevated to the pinnacle by freeze distillation, the 2024 edition of Dreams is as rich and complex as ever. A harmony of luxury, decadence and excess for those who know how to enjoy the finer pleasures in life and who truly appreciate the extraordinary.
 

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8.1
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5

330ml (thx, Renny!) @ SF.
Aroma: a lot of caramel, dark fruits, boozy.
Taste: along the same lines, moderately sweet, thick, a lot of toffee.
Overall: nice one and nicely done for a 20% ABV drink.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 04:28


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

Medium brown, no head. The aroma has a lot of alcohol, a little bit of toffee and just a touch of fruitiness. On the palate, it's got a lot of body, and a lot of heat. There's a burnt caramel accent, a bit of nuttiness, and then more heat in the finish. It's not bad, especially if you're in the mood for something boozy. If you're not, this goes strong on the alcohol and would be a bit much.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 04:22


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

375mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany, no head. Nose is full of dark dried fruits, big booze, subdued bourbon, and burnt brown sugar. Flavour is not as boozy as expected, with a very smooth, syrupy palate, lots of dark dried fruits, subdued bourbon, some vanilla, and brown sugar. Very viscous, syrupy palate on the finish, yet not cloying, likely partially due to the booze. Flat carb. Everything actually comes together alright. Massive, sticky, syrupy beer, but it does work.

Tried from Bottle from Sterk Avondverkoop on 11 Sep 2025 at 04:20


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from 330mL bottle (bb 7.1.2033). Dark chestnut brown with no head. Dark dried fruits, raisins, semi-sweet, abv dangerously hidden, quite nice.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 04:10


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

330mL bottle. Pours dark brown with no head. A lot of bready malts, bourbon, dark sugars, dried fruits on the nose; you can definitely catch the alcohols on a deep inhale. Flavour is super rich with thick bready malts, brown sugars, dark fruit; plenty of heat from the booze. Actually comes together pretty well; remarkably smooth for the ABV.

Tried from Bottle from Sterk Avondverkoop on 11 Sep 2025 at 00:29


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Prague Beer Fest 2025, from the cutestest little keg ever, while assisting Bevog. The whole situation with this was hillarious - we were trying to get rid of Accom, which was fantastic but unsurprisingly had few takers early in the day, and we managed to get to the very last bit, put it on, with just what was in pipes to go. Someone immediately showed up to order it as soon as we put the paper up, but we needed to clear the pipes... So we did... but it was going and going (mind you we weren't about to throw anything away). The MOST BLOODY SEEMLESS change between the beers ever happened, the color being nearly the same, and pretty much no bubbles (one vaaague spurt maybe)... Got a lot of the blend and at least one full glass out till we realized it had changed, hah. Didn't go to waste. Great eisbarleywine/coffee-choco impy blend, mind you, but we didn't need it that early.

So what was it like, when I managed to finally try it "straight"? Brown, leaving some traces on the edges of the glass. Huge malty aroma, expected oxidation, enormous honey, caramel, dried fruit, honey, raisins and some alcohol - not much for 19.6,% but much. The taste had a fun minty, almost eucalyptus-like touch, dried fruit, caramelly, very warming, boozy, but kinda pleasantly so. We were out of it very, very quickly, and huge respect for it! I think the only reason it's below 8.0 is because it was too cold and at the wrong moment to focus fully and enjoy it.

Tried from Draft on 19 Apr 2025 at 13:03


9

Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2025 at 18:03


8

Tried on 23 Feb 2025 at 23:21


8.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Dark brown and oily with no head. Loads of sweet brown sugar. Goes towards maple and gets almost savoury. Notes of cognac too. Super rich and warming.

Tried on 31 Dec 2024 at 20:18


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, 330 ml, shared with Luka, MiroB and kajser27. Dark dark brown with almost no head. Caramel, salty, sweet, packing a good amount of heat.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2024 at 23:00