Barley Wine Style Ale
Macaloney's Island Distillery & Twa Dogs Brewery in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.30
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Cozy up with our bold and beautiful Barley Wine style ale. Crafted with a sultry blend of speciality malts, this ruby red brew boasts indulgent notes of toffee, chocolate, and honey while Pacific Northwest hops add a delicious twist of citrus, stone fruits, and juicy berries. Best enjoyed in a snifter at room temperature to allow the flavours to unfold for a truly heady experience.
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7/10
A reddish copper barley wine with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with vinous notes, dark fruits, licorice notes, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet caramel malt with dark fruits, vinous character, alcohol warmth, treacle, light licorice, very nice and rich. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jan 2022
at 01:06
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
On tap at Twa Dogs, pours a clear dark amber / burgundy with a small beige head. Nose brings out caramel malt, bready notes, and a bit of hop resins. Flavour is sickly sweet, with both a sickly sweet caramel malt character and an astringently bitter resinous hop character in terrible balance with one another. Almost medicinally sweet, with jagged hops. Pretty much a textbook example of how not to brew a barley wine. Poor.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2021
at 20:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear deep mahogany color with moderate head. Aromas of orange peel, resin, dry toffee, and bready malts. Flavors follow same with additional bitter piney hops. Reminds me of Old Cellar Dweller before it was a triple IPA. Ready to drink. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2021
at 04:14