Holidale (All Through 2013)
Berkshire Brewing Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 9
Bottle sampled at a friends house. From notes. Caramel and toffee with loads of sweet and dark fruits. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 oz bottle. From Ryan and Casey’s, Greenfield, MA. 2011 vintage. The first glass had real nice clarity. Slow steady carbonation producing a thin layer of white head that had decent lace. Smell is light hops, light fruit and toffee. A bit thin in body almost watery. Flavor mirrors the nose. Overall I sit here and sip this and my overall thought are… this brew is very under-whelming. At least the ABV is masked after a year of sitting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2008 bomber shared by IrishBoy. Pours hazy dark and ruddy with a transient head. Aroma is cola and medicinal. Med body. Flavor pretty much matches the aroma. An ale that is coming across as prematurely aged, but it’s marvelous.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bomber from Odeed. 2008. Nose is an aging barleywine, with toffee and brown sugar. Hazy copper with a small beige head. Flavor is slightly oxidized from the thin body with some sweetness and a slight bitterness.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
2009 Vintage Pours a deep reddish copper color with a good sized bubbly beige head that shows great retention. Smells of caramel and brown sugar with a hint of ethanol and a touch of oxidation. Taste is a bit on the malty side up front. Lots of sugary sweetness that gets beaten back by and earthy and a muddled buttery harshness. Long lingering sugary and butterscotch sweetness. Medium body and level of carbonation and a sweet bubbly mouthfeel. I really enjoy the coffeehouse porter from Berkshire, but most of their other beers strike me as too heavy on the diacytyl. Decent beer, but not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. A dark amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, alcohol, and some spices.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear amber with a small off white head. Aroma was sweet with toasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Sweet and hoppy flavor with toasted malt, caramel and toffee. Finished sweet and boozy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and slight spiced. Fruity, yeasty, slight caramelish and light citric. Lingering malty and hoppy bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
clear brown, small white head. sweet yet dry malty, flavor is sweet malty, nutty,
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of gn0sis. Pours an almost clear amber with a smallish off-white head. The nose is fruity with a little perfumy hops. Medium body, fairly sweet fruitiness, caramel and some perfumy hops leaving a decent bitterness. Decent if not exactly a huge Barley Wine. 180311