Vault City Barleywine

Barleywine

 

Vault City in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
7.66
ABV: 12.2% IBU: - Ticks: 22
With a soft tan head and deep ruby hue, our take on a traditional Barleywine features a rich blend of British and German malts with a late addition of English and New Zealand hops.

A complex grain bill of Pale, Munich, Crystal, Amber, Carafa and Melanoidin malts creates a full-bodied biscuity foundation with nutty undertones. East Kent Goldings and Taiheke hops added towards the end of the boil infuse a subtle hop character that perfectly complements the malt base.

Each sip delivers notes of dark fruit with plum, raisin, and fig at the forefront, rounding out this exquisitely layered Barleywine.
 

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8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Barley Wine 2024 på Skaal. Mycket fin doft av starkvin/russin. Smaken kraftig med fattoner. Låång eftersmak. Riktig god

Tried from Draft on 24 Oct 2025 at 10:40


7.5

--- Beer merged from original tick of Barleywine 2024 on 20 May 2025 at 12:46 - Score: 7. Original review text: Draught @ MBCC '25 Week 🧙‍♂️🍻 - 🇩🇰 - Mikkeller & Friends, 🇩🇰 Stefansgade 35, Copenhagen, 2200 Denmark.. . [20250520] 7/3-/8/4/-15

Tried from Draft on 21 May 2025 at 06:42


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

Draught @ Mikkeller & Friends, 🇩🇰 Stefansgade 35, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark [20250520] 7/3-/8/4/15 --- Beer merged from original tick of Barleywine 2024 on 20 May 2025 at 12:46 - Score: 7. Original review text: Draught @ MBCC '25 Week 🧙‍♂️🍻 - 🇩🇰 - Mikkeller & Friends, 🇩🇰 Stefansgade 35, Copenhagen, 2200 Denmark.. . [20250520] 7/3-/8/4/-15

Tried from Draft on 21 May 2025 at 03:08


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

On tap at Mikkeller & Friends, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma has plenty of caramel, toffee, brown sugar, and bready malt. Flavour is very malty, with lots of toffee, caramel, bready malt, and just enough bitterness to back. Nicely balanced, definitely not sweet. Very good.

Tried from Draft at Mikkeller & Friends (Stefansgade) on 20 May 2025 at 21:50


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

On tap at Mikkeller & Friends. Pours murky brown with a beige head. Bready malts, dry caramel on the nose. Flavour has dry bread, some crusts, dry caramel. Nice.

Tried from Draft at Mikkeller & Friends (Stefansgade) on 20 May 2025 at 19:38


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

Dark brown colour with small head.Aroma of dark drid fruit and wood mild toasted and roasted mouth feels and good full body even nice toffee flavour and malty finish.

Tried from Can from Hos Rune on 19 Apr 2025 at 07:45


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

330ml slim can. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Aroma of raisin, figs, plum, caramel. Taste is sweet, rich malts, caramel, dark/dried fruits - figs, plum, raisins, light spice, boozy warming finish. Medium bodied. Lovely.

Tried from Can on 29 Mar 2025 at 21:33


8

Sweet toasted malty with notes of dark dried fruit shred, prunes, sultana, spices, caramel and fudge like malty sweetness, medium bodied, lingering spiced warming malty into the finish. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2025 at 06:06


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

Keg at the Wee Vault. Pours dark reddish brown with a short-lived thin ring of white head. Aromas of toffee, stewed plum, caramel. Taste is sweet, light spice. Warming toffee finish.

Tried from Draft at Wee Vault on 31 Jan 2025 at 14:01


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Brewdog Soho, London. A very dark ruby/brown coloured pour with a thinnish off white/beige head on top. Rich, malty, caramel, dark fruit, plum taste/aroma. Decent barleywine which didn't taste like a 12.2% beer at all.

Tried on 28 Dec 2024 at 20:21