Mince Pie Barleywine
Elusive Brewing in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.13
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Loaded with the fruit and spices found in everyone's favourite festive treat, this Barley Wine has decadent notes of candied orange and caramel with comforting spice and a warming finish.
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Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2025
at 21:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
3rd May 2024
Can. Just a light haze on this reddish amber beer, decent bubbly tan head. Airy palate, a very mild dryness, decent fine carbonation. Touch of malt cream into a nice darkish toffee streak. A mild savoury aspect from somewhere. Decent mince pie fruits and spices, captures that aspect very well. A fairly light finish. Nice job. Delivers the concept with enough recognisable malt richness for a barleywine and the two marry up well
Can. Just a light haze on this reddish amber beer, decent bubbly tan head. Airy palate, a very mild dryness, decent fine carbonation. Touch of malt cream into a nice darkish toffee streak. A mild savoury aspect from somewhere. Decent mince pie fruits and spices, captures that aspect very well. A fairly light finish. Nice job. Delivers the concept with enough recognisable malt richness for a barleywine and the two marry up well
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2024
at 22:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at Ellen's. Pours deep ruby, nose is caramel, raisin, citrus, taste is similar, little thin.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2023
at 20:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Spandert av Rune. Delt på Vervet. Ultramørk amber. Mokkafarget filmskum. Appelsinskallaroma. Smaken tørket frukt. Trepreg. Tørr avslutning. Definitivt julepreg.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2023
at 13:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear dark amber beer, thin off-white head. Smells boozy, with dried fruit and caramel. Flavour has dried fruit too, a bit of sweet spirits, alcohol warmth, caramel, apple. Doesn't really have enough depth to it to mask the booziness, but it just about hits the brief. Not bad.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2023
at 23:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured a murky dark brown colour with a short-lived, fizzy off-white head. The aroma is a mixture of Christmas fruit and spices. The flavour is moderate sweet, with a crisp, somewhat surprisingly light, watery, caramel, mince pie, cinnamon, boozy alcohol palate. There’s really too much going on in there to try and differentiate the flavours. Medium to light bodied with lively carbonation. A bit of a mess if I’m honest and if I were the brewer I don’t think I’d have sold this.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2023
at 18:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Colin. A reddish amber coloured pour with a small beige cap/ Aroma is semi sweet, sticky dried fruiit, cinnamon spices, some alcohol, rum and raisin, fudge. Flavour is composed of woody malts, bark, light solvent, nutmeg, woody spices, raspberry. Palate is semi sweet, light tang, tannin, highish carbonation. Good fun.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2023
at 20:00
7/10
Tried
on 08 Feb 2023
at 23:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Elusive, with Peter, 28th January 23. Pours clear and caramel in colour. Aroma is spice and caramel. Taste is spice and light caramel, some roasting, malts, some yeast. Alright
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jan 2023
at 16:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 21/01/23. Deep mahogany brown topped with a good sized beige head. Nose is sweet malts, mince pie mix, pastry, sugars, toffee, dates, dried fruit rinds. Taste comprises fruit cake mix, spice, touch of mince pie - less than the nose for me, dates, prunes, raisins, herb. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light kiss of booze. Fun enough barley wine ... pulls off the mince pie angle quite well.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jan 2023
at 17:47