Millennium Ale
Shenandoah Brewing Company in Alexandria, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Sahti Special Out of Production|
Score
7.21
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Finnish, Sahti-style Barleywine made with rye and juniper.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle aged since 2002 or so, cracked open and drank July 2009. Seven years and still a nice orangish-white head. Impressive. Brown-amber color, very thick and dark. The aroma is ruthless, hardcore potent cognac. Oh my. Enter devolution. Rich bourbon raisin, sweet and sticky. Sour. Has some mellow carbonation still. If you use your imagination, you might just get a hint of sour cherry in it. Certainly a unique experience. Not a drain pour. Rating only reflects the aged version, so it is certainly unfair.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2009
at 23:00
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours a dark copper/redish haze. Virtually no head whatsoever. Aroma is that of malts, figs, and juniper berries. Flavor is nothing short of fantastic, near perfection sweet, malty, creamy with butterscotch and junipers. Alcohol is pretty well masked.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2007
at 23:12
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Copper colour with slight ruby highlights and no head at all-even during the pour. Aroma of raisins, plums, alcohol, yeast and cherries. Heavy-bodied; Super sweet pit fruit characteristics with a malt background-very nice! Aftertaste has some slight mustiness with strong sweetness. Overall, a very nice barley wine-hardly any alcoholic tastes-1.5+ years aged, and its doing very well. This is definately more of a barleywine than a traditional, just look at the description! I tasted this horizontally with the Oak-Aged bottle! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle on 24-December-2003 purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, D.C. and sampled it on 24-December-2003.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2003
at 18:34