Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Beautiful amber colour, bright, sunny, with chill haze; medium sized, tan head. Caramel character, mostly; a bit nutty; mild sweetness, it's not as rich or deep as a Barley Wine should be, this is mostly a Strong Ale; a bit boozy; light vanilla.
It's ok.

16oz @ home shared with Alex (thx for the beer, man!). Appearance: clear copper with a beige head. Aroma: malty, some caramel and booze, maybe a slight dark fruit character. Taste: along the same lines, no oak, no caramel, just quite high bitterness in the finish. Overall: meh.

Slight haze, thin head, amber colour. Heavy fresh bourbon on this, boozy, the base is ok, some sticky notes, not much complexity. So the final product isn’t bad…nothing especially wrong but also I am looking for something that moves me, or makes up for how heavy-handed the bourbon is.

Poured from 473mL can. Clear amber brown with light beige head. Furniture oak, some dried fruit and bourbon with a hint of vanilla. The oak overpowers here and is inferior quality, unbalanced, but each of the individual flavours are fine. Room for improvement.

473mL can. Pours clear amber with a beige head. Aroma has dried fruit, vanilla, oak, and bourbon. Flavour has charred oak, dried fruit, burnt toffee, bourbon. Quite dry and has a lot of the bourbon barrel; needs a bit of work, but still pretty good.

473mL can, pours a clear dark reddish brown with a small off-white head. Aroma has a nice toasted/charred oak character upfront, with light vanillin, lots of toasted chestnuts, some caramel, toffee, and bready malt. Flavour is quite dry, with toasted chestnuts, dry caramel, bready malt, plenty of charred oak, plenty of vanilla, and finishing dry and somewhat boozy. The palate is on the thinner side, and there's pretty low residual sweetness for a barley wine. But there's some nice flavours here, and everything is fairly well-integrated. Not bad really.

473 ml can. Pours a mahogany color with moderate tannish head. Aromas of doughy malts, fruity raisins, soft oak and caramel sugars. Flavors of harsh oak, toasted malts and a bit of postage stamp. Acrid and bitter. Unfortunately flavor does follow the nice aromas. Maybe needs to sit awhile, but I think it maybe oak overkill.