Monolith
Howe Sound Brewing in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.56
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The base of this blend is our award winning Woolly Bugger Barley Wine aged 9 months in Baker’s bourbon barrels. It was then blended with additional Barley Wine and Abbey Quad to become Monolith. It features a constantly evolving series of flavours, folding in on itself and revealing delicate new complexities with each sip. Toffee, treacle, and candied apples all emerge, with raisins, plums, and myriad other flavours dancing on the edge of perception. It displays a moderate bitterness, subtle heat, and rich, alluring aroma.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz @ on Alouette campground in Golden Ears shared with Alex. Appearance: brown with a tan head. Aroma: malty, bourbon, some dark fruits. Taste: along the same lines. Finishes a bit dry. Overall: nice one.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2022
at 22:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can. Amber-brown colour, sedimented. Thin head. On the nose, this has a lot of bourbon of course, rich malts and a big deep fruitiness I'd expect from Howe Sound. Mincemeat tart kind of stuff. Soft and smooth. Big body. Big alcohol, but the malts are gentle, the fruits are just as complex but lent some vanillin for roundness. The bourbon might dominate the nose but it's well-integrated on the palate. You know it's massive but at the same time, you want to drink on this. It would be dangerous if I wasn't at home with a can.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Mar 2022
at 06:17
8/10
Tried
on 14 Feb 2022
at 01:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2022-08-13, can from Jak's, Parkcrest, 7-4-8-4-16=39
Dark brown, looks dirty. Good treacle and caramel flavour, nutty; it doesn't have the malt richness of the best barley wines, and the finish is a bit short; strong alcohol warmth.
Good effort.
2022-01-21, can at Weathered 2022, Vancouver, 7-4-7-3-15=36
Dark amber colour. Slightly more chocolatey than the average Barley Wine, but it lacks depth, and the alcohol is fairly strong; as it goes, it's getting thinner, boozier, less complex by the sip.
Ok beer.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2022
at 07:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at Weathered 2022. Clear-ish mahogany with small beige head. Dark dried fruits, toffee, bourbon. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2022
at 06:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
473 ml can. Pours a dark reddish brown with light head. Aromas of brown sugary syrup/treacle, raisins, sweet bourbon, caramel and bready malts. Flavors of sweet toasted malts, raisins, candi sugar, bread crust and just a bit of bittering hops. Quite sweet but still had an edge worthy of aging. Very good, as expected!
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jan 2022
at 04:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
473mL can, pours a deep dark mahogany / near-black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out the bourbon barrels, dried dark fruits, and toffee. Flavour is rich, with lots of dark dried fruits, subtle bourbon and bready toffee. Rich and fruity. The bourbon is only subtle, accentuating the fruitiness. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jan 2022
at 04:43