8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Poured up at AZ Strong Beer Fest 2017 where it exhibits a clear deep copper body that supports a thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up sweet malts, kind of sweet crystal malts and then prune, brown sugar and resins with a bit of molasses off in the background. The taste delivers sweet malts, a little bit of crystal malts and then a modest level of sweet prune and fig like fruity esters coming to the surface. To midway it picks up some brown sugar dusted raisins as the sweetness builds up to a pleasing rich ‘sipper’ level. This then blends and slides into a tasty finish. Solid barleywine sipper.