Bardstown Brand Ale Aged in Bourbon Barrels
Olde Hickory Brewery in Hickory, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.87
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A dark reddish brown barley wine with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with dark fruits, soy sauce, faint alcohol, nice. In mouth, a nice sweet caramel malt with vinous notes, alcohol warmth, treacle, pleasant. Bottle from 2017.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22 ounce bottle from Bestway in Greensboro, NC, opened 7/9/11. 2007 vintage. Pours a hazy dark copper color with a thin tan fizzy head. Poor head retention and lacing. Aroma of bourbon, toffee, chocolate, citrus hops and wood. The taste is toffee, raisins, wood, bourbon, vanilla and a bitter finish. Medium bodied. Some booziness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cloudy amber with a small off-white head. The aroma has grainy malt, some dusty herbal notes and coconut and other bourbon notes. Sweet and cloying boozy flavour with lots of bourbon
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Papsø-Grand-Tasting, September 2010. Pours cloudy ruby amber with a small creamy white head. Bourbon, caramel and coconut. Smooth and full bodied. Warmth . .
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 22fl.oz.Unclear medium to dark amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, light nutty, moderate alcohol - bourbon, vanilla, wood notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, licorcice - laber larver. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100912]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy amber with a medium off white head. Sweet aroma with toasted malt, caramel and bourbon. Flavor was sweet with bourbon, vanilla, wood, toasted malt, caramel and ripe fruits. Finished sweet with warming alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A hazy dark brown beer with a light tan head. The aroma has notes of caramel, malt, and some hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, spices, alcohol, bourbon, and wood, leading to a dry bourbon finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
cloudy brown, smooth white head. arley wine aroma, dry ,dusty, stale hops , sweet malty, fine. flavor is sweet malts, bitter, wood. very nice bw flavor, perhaps a bit too boozy, considering the not so strong base.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy amber with a small tan head. Aroma is cheesy and roasted malty. Cheeasy, dark malty and caramelish. Lingering sweet caramelish. Bitter and dry dark roasted finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of wavers1. Vintage 2007. Pours amber with a slight haze and a small off-white head. Sweet vanilla, Bourbon and licorice allsorts in the nose. Solid body, loadsa caramel and vanilla with a massive booziness. Some late bitterness though. 120910