Monsters - Impending Sense Of Doom
Torrside Brewing in New Mills, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.25
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Imperial red ale meets smooth peated barleywine, for something rather unique!
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours clear ruby amber, nose is caramel, berries, toffee, vanilla, peat smoke, taste is sweet toffee, berries, creamy, peaty. 8/9/9/8/8
Tried
on 05 Jul 2026
at 15:29
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
Bottle from House Of Trembling Madness. Hazy brown body with no head. Low carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of cherry, earth and a slight smokiness. Flavour of toffee and roasted malt. Medium to full body with a slick mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Very easy drinking for the ABV. This is a subtle and interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
at
House Of The Trembling Madness (Lendal)
on 16 Dec 2025
at 11:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Pours reddy brown with a large head. Aroma is sweet peat, TCP and red berries. Taste has sweet caramel to start with red berries and peat on the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2020
at 22:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of Dad, who picked this up straight from the brewery, cheers Dad! Had this at home Attenkirchen Thursday 31st October 2019 listening to Gideon Coe on 6Nusic. Pours amber with an off white head, looks great!. Fruity with alcohol soaked Christmas Cake dried fruits, sweet but certainly not cloyingly so. The aroma has smokey peat, however it's not bad at all. It's quite thick in the mouth and a little bit boozy, but I like this, it's really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2019
at 03:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
13th October 2019
Light haze on this amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth and semi dry palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft and semi dry malts, a mild malt cream sweetness. Obvious peat, some spice too. But mercifully well short of that acrid bandaid flavour beloved of very strange people. Modest dried fruits. Smooth semi dry spicy finish. Interesting but wouldn’t want loads.
Light haze on this amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth and semi dry palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft and semi dry malts, a mild malt cream sweetness. Obvious peat, some spice too. But mercifully well short of that acrid bandaid flavour beloved of very strange people. Modest dried fruits. Smooth semi dry spicy finish. Interesting but wouldn’t want loads.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2019
at 22:30