Ordeum Rex Barley Wine
Mike Hess Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.57
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured up on tap at the 2015 edition of the AZ Strong Beer Festival where it exhibits a slightly hazy coppery gold body that supports a near white head of foam. The aroma pushes up sweet malts, a nice pine hoppiness and some floral hop notes around the edges. The taste starts off awfully floral in hops and it quickly gets bitter and resiny with pine like hoppiness. To midway a sort of soapy sensation bubbles to the surface to take something away from the experience. Wow, this is firmly bitter, firmly resiny and with plenty of sweet backbone for structure. This is a pretty damn good American Barleywine. Even the little bit of a soapiness doesn’t take away from this beer’s elevated level of YUM.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2015
at 12:33
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
[2/21/15] Draught at Mike Hess North Park in San Diego. Clear copper. Aroma of malt, butter and some fruitiness. Sweet flavor, malty, with butter, a bit of caramel, some fruitiness and alcohol. Medium-bodied, a bit oily. Not so good.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2015
at 14:17