I'll Have What the Gentleman on the Floor is Having
McGuires Irish Pub & Brewery in Pensacola, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.17
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Warning: This is a manly beer, If you are a wimpy, bed wetting, Bud Light drinker, it’s not too late to change your mind. Otherwise, please enjoy the finest beer I’ve ever made.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught, Destin
Muddy brown body with a nice, loose head. Rich dark sugars on the nose with plum, raisin, golden demerara, apple pie and guava. Rich and quite alcoholic but with a serious dark fruit note (plum, burnt cherry). Lots of dark toffee sugars (okinawan black sugar). Finishes rich, dry, fruity, complex. Burly...it’s not refined but tasty and a lot of fun.
Muddy brown body with a nice, loose head. Rich dark sugars on the nose with plum, raisin, golden demerara, apple pie and guava. Rich and quite alcoholic but with a serious dark fruit note (plum, burnt cherry). Lots of dark toffee sugars (okinawan black sugar). Finishes rich, dry, fruity, complex. Burly...it’s not refined but tasty and a lot of fun.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2009
at 13:20
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
On tap at Florida Brewers Guild Fest 2007. Pours a deep copper with lasting tan head. Sweet malt and dark fruit aroma. Flavor is smooth and drinkable with semi sweet pine hops, roasted malts, dark fruit and a hint of maybe pale malts. Slight sense of the ABV.
12/02/06 Walk the Line Barleywine Festival, Dunedin, FL. 2001 vintage sample from a keg. Hazy amber color with tan head. First sense of the aroma seemed to be oak or vanilla. My second sniff didn’t pick that up at all. The aroma became more sweet malts and dark fruitiness. Really soft hop flavor with some malt sweetness and fruitiness. This one seems like it just recently passed its prime.
The 2000 sampled from a keg actually tasted a bit brighter with more assertive hoppiness and fruity cherry/grape flavor than the 2001.
The 1997 sampled from a keg had no head and almost no aroma. The flavor was nice though and I thought the best of the three. There was a toffee note that mixed well with the dark grape fruitiness and hops.
12/02/06 Walk the Line Barleywine Festival, Dunedin, FL. 2001 vintage sample from a keg. Hazy amber color with tan head. First sense of the aroma seemed to be oak or vanilla. My second sniff didn’t pick that up at all. The aroma became more sweet malts and dark fruitiness. Really soft hop flavor with some malt sweetness and fruitiness. This one seems like it just recently passed its prime.
The 2000 sampled from a keg actually tasted a bit brighter with more assertive hoppiness and fruity cherry/grape flavor than the 2001.
The 1997 sampled from a keg had no head and almost no aroma. The flavor was nice though and I thought the best of the three. There was a toffee note that mixed well with the dark grape fruitiness and hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2007
at 18:33