Rhetoric #3
Hardknott in Millom, Cumbria, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.73
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared with my bro it BOD. It pours deep reddish - brown with a dissipating tiny off-white head. The aroma is rich and toothy, chewy, fudge, toffee, date, oily, unctuous, bit of green tea and dull spice. The taste is dry, fragrant, floral, jasmine green tea, soapy, warming peppery spice, crystallised ginger, orange peel, marmalade, tangerine, slick, oily, dried fruits, raisin, sultana and boozy warmth through the finiah. Medium body, low carbonation and oily mouth feel. Good depth of flavour, but pretty punchy also. Flavours clash a bit. Fun to sample, but I couldn't drink a lot of it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2019
at 13:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can shared at craft beer Co Islington. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a a loose off white head. Aroma is sweaty, amber malts, toffee, brown sugars, farmyard. Minty. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, medium sugars, sticky toffee, mint,. Cakey malts. Palate is semi sweet, earthy, waxy, medium sweet,
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jul 2019
at 20:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy tea aroma. Sweetish malty spicy peppery tea flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy peppery tea finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2016
at 08:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, tea, and spices, leading to a dry tea-ish finish. Weird, but very interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2016
at 14:02
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is small white head. Aroma is herbal, dark malty and alcohol. Teaish. Sweet, sugarish and mild teaish. Sweet and caramelish dense finish. Too much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2016
at 11:24
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at chriso’s Easter 2015 tasting - London. Pours unclear amber with a creamy white head. The nose holds ginger, lime, citrus, bread. Hugely sweet flavor with more ginger, sugar syrup, bread, fruitcake. Full bodied, chewy, and finely carbonated. Warming finish, sticky and sweet and syrupy. A bit much, but there are some novel attributes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2015
at 15:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle split at Chriso Easter Tasting, 04/04/15. Orange amber with a decent off white covering. Nose is dark fruits, candied fruit peel, earthy, light spice, dates, fruit cake mix. Taste comprises Xmas Cake, dark fruit peel, sultanas, spice, figs, sweet syrup, toasted brown sugar. Full bodied, fine carbonation - light cloying elements, sweet licks in a warming close. Ok sipper but ultimately too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2015
at 16:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared with my good friend Niels. Lightly unclear red color, average sized white head. Aroma is lightly malts, tea and pepper. Taste lightly malts, sweet, cough syrup, tea, pepper, liquorice (trekdrop), alcohol, a hint of tea bitter, mint, spice and even a hint of "speculaas". A bit weird to say the least. Lots and lots of flavors but they don’t combine very well imo. Interesting experiment but it didn’t work this time I’d say.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2015
at 14:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
15th December 2014
Murky amber beer, small white head. Palate is smooth and viscous and has decent fine carbonation. Very sweet malts with touches of cream and caramel. Nice green tea blends in well. Nicely judged pepper provides a great counterpoint and stops it getting cloying. Finishes smooth with a nice pepper spice linger. Sweet and strong and very unusual and pretty drinkable.
Murky amber beer, small white head. Palate is smooth and viscous and has decent fine carbonation. Very sweet malts with touches of cream and caramel. Nice green tea blends in well. Nicely judged pepper provides a great counterpoint and stops it getting cloying. Finishes smooth with a nice pepper spice linger. Sweet and strong and very unusual and pretty drinkable.
Tried
on 16 Dec 2014
at 14:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Sweet lemon, dry spice, very sweet an syrupy, nice though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2014
at 13:33