Tap tab roseland brewery outside. Pours reddish with a soft offwhite head. Aroma is dark fruit, alcohol. Flavor is dark fruit, alcohol, chewy caramel. pretty boozy and if I were at home I’d really enjoy it.

On tap at Blacksheep. Clear copper with medium off-white head. Aroma is caramel, medium body, light carbonation, and thick small-bubble lacing. Taste is malty rich caramel.

From tap. Pours clear and golden amber with a small white head. Aroma is malty, caramelish. Sweet, toasted malty, caramelish and slight herbal. Sweet and dense malty finish.

Deep rich amber and copper coloured body with a bright ruby tint when held up to the light, along with a smallish, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of oak, alcohol, apples, toffee, earth, caramel, pitted fruits, cedar and a bit of butterscotch - nice and robust throughout. Full-bodied; Deeply sweet with caramel, toffee, pit fruits and raisins all noticeable along with some smooth malt, a touch of oak and dry aged characteristics along with some light spices. Aftertaste shows the sweetness, some vanilla and grain and a bit of alcohol bitterness and pungency toward the end. Overall, a good ’fresh’ barleywine that I’m sampling without any additional aging, that shows a bit harsh, but fairly nice and respectable throughout. I sampled this thirty two ounce growler fill from Whole Foods in Fair Lakes (Fairfax), Virginia on 11-February-2017 for US$5,00...yes 32 ounces of a barley wine for $5 in Washington! Sampled at home in Washington a day later on 12-February-2017.

Tap. Pours clear reddish hazel, huge beige creamy head, great lacing. Aroma of dark sugars, dark breads, floral, a bit grassy, copper. Flavor is fairly sweet, medium bitter, odd metallic thing. Medium body, strong lingering bitterness.

On draft at Mad Fox Barleywine Festival 2015. Vintage 2013. Pours a clear copper with a ecru head. Caramel aroma. Flavors of toffee. Smooth and mellow finish

Taken from notes
On tap at madfox
It is an effervescent beer clear amber color with a slight head
Fruity aroma
Taste is peach and ends with a bitter aftertaste

Oak and overripe orange nose. Cloudy amber, thick head that uniformly coats the glass. Overripe orange, marzipan at midpalate, amaretto in the finish. Dusty and oaky throughout. Booooozy, boozy.. Spectacular and tasty with nice aged character.

Draft at Mad Fox Brewing’s 3rd Annual Barleywine Festival. Poured a clear amber color with a small off-white, almost wispy head. Aroma was toffee notes, with some notes of caramel, hops, citrus notes. Lighter, a touch thinner body than I expected, alcohol is there - but not overtly boozy. Some fruit notes round this particular one out.

On tap at the brewpub on 02/14/2010. Clear amber body with a small foamy off-white head. Sweet caramel and fruit aroma. Sweet caramel, pale malt and light fruit flavor. Full body with moderately low carbonation.