Maris the Classy Otter
Tombstone Brewing Company in Tombstone, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.35
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Tombstone PHX, pours a clear dark amber / mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma brings out toasted caramel, bready malt and a hint of brown sugar. Flavour is rich and complex, with intense caramel, brown sugar, bready malt and alcohol. The 14.4% is certainly felt, but it's tastefully incorporated. Rich and malty, with tons of depth. Just lovely.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Pint can pours with a dark mahogany colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a fair load of dark fruity esters like plums, raisins, blueberries and a bit of dates as well as faint murmurs of reduced sugars like caramel. The taste follow suit nicely with smooth supple sweet plums, raisins, blueberries and a sense of date like richness. To midway and into the finish lights amounts of sweet malts and sweet smooth caramel add layers and depth to the experience. This is smooth and supple-y sweet estery goodness. This might improve a bit with age but it's already pretty well integrated and inviting. Nice classic estery barleywine sipper.