American Barleywine 2023

Bottle at home 7th December 24. Pours a dark golden. Aroma is hoppy, caramel, malty. Taste is bitter and sweet, pithy, pine resin, caramel, toasted malts. Really nice almost an old school DIPA, barley wine hybrid

Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 21/04/24. Moderately hazed amber with a good sized lasting beige head. Nose is airy malts, biscuit, caramel, fruit slice, dates, demerara sugars. Taste comprises caramel, dates, sultanas, brown bread, caramelised brown sugars, light booze, spice. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising boost and subtle hop presence detected. Solid easy drinking, light and approachable BW.

7th April 2024
A very light haze on this reddish amber beer, small bubbly pale tan head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth light malts, a light creamy caramel malts. Some rich and ripe dried fruits. A very impressive hop array, would be massively impressed if this was a dipa. But it's a youngish barleywine. A little candy fruits and a whisper of spearmint. Mild alcohol spice on the airy finish. Interesting. A tasty and drinkalble barleywine. Not mature enough to have any real malt depth but also not enough hop brightness to make it an Uber fresh hopped barleywine. Somewhere in-between. Decent and drinkalble.

Cask @ Café Beermoth, Manchester. Hazy amber-red with a thick creamy-frothy head. Quite sweet as expected, but more so than boozy, but still striking in its alcohol content as you might also expect. Excellent barley-wine when you tot up the sum of its parts.

Cask at Plug & Taps Preston Creamy off white head on a murky amber coloured body. Malt, sugar, pine, apple & yeast tastes with a bitter finish. Great Cask - Probably the strongest Cask Ale I've ever had!