Olde Deuteronomy
Alley Kat Brewing Company in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
Barley Wine - Barley Winter|
Score
7.43
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Olde Deuteronomy is a beer that is high in alcohol, full-bodied, and has a "chewy" maltiness. Because it improves with age, it is called a barley wine.
Olde Deuteronomy is truly a beer to be shared with friends and should be sipped out of a brandy snifter. Each vintage will age and improve for several more years.
Olde Deuteronomy is truly a beer to be shared with friends and should be sipped out of a brandy snifter. Each vintage will age and improve for several more years.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
bottle thanks to Savvy1982, pours amber with a medium light tan head. Aroma is rye, lots of bready notes and clove. Silky smooth mouthfeel that gives way to sweet cherry flavors mixed with raisin and cinnamon. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2010
at 16:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
New rating (Aug 2020): Time to retry the first barley wine I ever had. 2018 vintage bottle from Alley Kat, pours a dark mahogany with a small head. Nose is full of dried dark fruits, toffee, molasses and ample resinous hops. Flavour is balanced wonderfully between the dark caramel malt and resinous hops, with plenty of dried red fruit and molasses. Pretty much the same as a I remember it over a decade ago. Lovely barley wine. Old rating (Dec 2009): 341mL bottle, pours a dark reddish brown with a thin off-white head. Sweet nose of malt, fruit and hops. Flavour is complex - grapefruit, raisins, prune, and vanilla - maybe more? Low carbonation, full-bodied. Bitter finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2009
at 21:11
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
2016-08-24, tasting at Matt’s, vintage 2015, 10.3% ABV, 7-4-8-4-16=39
Dark amber color, hazy, almost no head. The aroma is malty, a bit cheesy and footy, this should be corrected. Good body strength; more caramel than anything else, light apple touch, and strong fresh hopping.
A bit young but very good; and with age it will lose the hop punch and actually wouldn’t get better.
2012-03-24, bottle from Sherbrooke Liquor Store, vintage 2007, 9.9% ABV, 4+ years old, 8-4-8-5-17=42
Hazy amber color. Very nice malt aroma, American, a bit nutty, hoppy, not oxidized yet. Full malt flavor, with a good body, some alcohol perception, nutty touch too, and strong bitterness.
It aged graciously so far.
2008-11-20, bottle from Sherbrooke Liquor Store, vintage 2007, 9.9% ABV, 9-4-8-5-17=43
Dark red-brown color, thin head. Powerful caramel aroma, with perfume of hops, light chocolate and alcohol, very light spices. Medium body, the mouthfeel is lightly oily; it has a strong caramel flavor, with correct sweetness and bitter chocolate; there is also a light sweet liquorice root, mainly in the final. Strong bitterness; malt and hops are well balanced. I like, as I drink it, how it juggles between sweetness, chocolate, hops… Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2008
at 10:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, purchased at DeVine Wines & Spirits in Edmonton, savoured November 27 in Lethbridge; eye: copper, clear, no effervescence, rapidly-disppearing beige head, no lacing; nose: quite hoppy, alcohol, molasses, crystallised fruits, caramelised malt; mouth: molasses, caramelized malt, nice cutting hops, grapefruit, crystallised fruits, dry finale in malt-molasses with a good presence of hops, average astringency, liqueur-like texture, medium-to-full texture, liqueur-like but a bit thin at the same time, mildly sweet, rather bitter, not much carbonation FRANÇAIS Bouteille, achetée chez DeVine Wines & Spirits, savourée le 27 novembre 2007 à Lethbridge; œil : cuivrée, claire, pas d’effervescence, petite mousse beige fugace, pas de dentelle; nez : très houblonnée, alcool, mêlasse, fruits confits, malt caramélise; bouche : mélasse, malt caramélisé, bon houblon tranchant, pamplemousse, fruits confits, finale sèche en malt-mélasse avec une bonne présence de houblon, astringence moyenne, texture liquoreuse, corps moyen-corsé, texture liquoreuse mais en même temps un peu mince, moyennement sucrée, plutôt amère, peu carbonatée
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2007
at 16:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
A hazy dark amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is very sweet with strong notes of caramel and hops as well as quite a lot of alcohol. The flavor is also very sweet with strong notes of caramel, and alcohol, the burns in the cheeks. The end is light notes of wood.
Tried
on 22 May 2006
at 12:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(Bottle 34,1 cl) 10.2% ABV. Pours a slightly hazy reddish with a small, off-white head. Sweetish aroma of overripe fruit. Extremely full-bodied with lovely accents of oak. Flavours of overripe fruit and some aroma hops. Lovely and very classic (and classy) American style Barley Wine. Thanks heaps to presario for this gem. 150506
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2006
at 07:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
This is - LITTERALY - a half rating of Olde Deuteronomy, as the bottle that "Poperinge" kindly sent me, managed to decapsulate itself on the voyage, leaving me with a half bottle upon arrival. Just enough to... Drab chestnut-olive with floating tidbits; no head (surpise). Gorgeous American hopsnose, dry hopsacks, and raisins, sweet cake. Taste the same as above (good hops and sweet fruitcake), but with a liberal dose of liquorice. Sweet corn and a retronasal waft of sageleaf. A bit hot on arrival, but quite agreable all the same. Pretty well bodied, alcoholburn. Seen the circumstances, a real treat. But ye Olde Alley catte brewery ought to review its bottling techniques; this one unscrewed, another of its products shattered, two of a sending of sixteen beers... One is happenstance, two is suspect - anyone a third? Big, big thanks to Mike and Bo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2005
at 09:58
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle (2005 vintage courtesy of Presario): Poured a deep amber color ale with a nice small dark foamy head with excellent retention. Aroma of caramel and figs is clearly evident and it seems this barley wine is more akin to the English style then the US hops heavy style. Taste is very enjoyable with some nice roasted caramel-like malt, sweetness reminiscent of figs and a nice bitter finish. Body is a bit thin for the style but alcohol is well hidden. Good stuff and glad I have some other bottle for aging.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2005
at 10:29
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
I was lucky enough to sample a 96 edition of this and it was liquid heaven. This is one of my fav. N.A.B.W. when fresh and age does wonders for this beer. Sherry, caramel, chocolate and dry strawberries compete in the nose, with the sherry coming out the winner. The body is thick and syrupy like B.W. should be in January. The strawberries are stronger in the mouth along with chocolate and caramel. The finish is big, warming and heavy. AWESOME
Tried
on 09 Jan 2005
at 04:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reddish brown ale with little moka head. Fairly fruity aroma with lots of grape qualities and nice floral hops. Very sweet, with lots of malts, and a nice hoppy finish, with lots of alcohol warmth, but a bit overpowering in the end. Very good body though, complex. Thanks to the Prez!
Tried
on 20 May 2004
at 18:49