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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This Barely Wine Style Ale is brewed with a unique recipe each year. Always brewed to exemplify the far reaches of brewing, this full bodied ale is our gift to you, whichever festivities you choose to celebrate. Whether getting you through the holiday hustle and bustle, or being sipped with family and friends, we welcome you to enjoy our special holiday offering all season long.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle-pours a light tan head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-bready/toffee, musty, some medium/dark fruit. Taste is medium malt-bready/toffee, musty, some medium/dark fruit, some spice hops. Easy. Soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2011
at 07:09
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to Cletus. Pours reddish brown. Nose of yogurt, citrus and light toffee. Taste of malts, brown sugar, light citrus, cookie and light toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2010
at 12:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting. 2009 vintage. Amber, slight haze, decent fruity barley wine. Lovely strawberry. Really full and fruity hides alcohol well. My type of barley wine, loved the strawberry notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2010
at 12:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
22nd May 2010. ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting! Hazy amber beer, bo head. Light soft and semi dry palate. Slightly spicy hops over a reasonable malt base. Finishes crisp. Pretty well balanced.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2010
at 13:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting. [ 2009 ]. Clear medium amber color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, very weak aroma. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, overripped fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100522]
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2010
at 00:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of suzygreenburg. Pours hazy amber with thin off white head. The aroma is sweet and dark fruitiness creating a smooth pleasing sense. The taste is smooth too with rich blended sweet dark fruitiness moving into mild yet smooth sweet malts, aged malts as well as plenty of aged to melded grapefruit and citrus orange hop flavor. Nice!
Tried
on 29 May 2010
at 16:03
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle at chris -o ... copper ... sweet light fruit hop ... little mellon hop ... bitter fruits ... loads of hops ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2010
at 12:04
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
A golden barley wine with a thin white head. A cloying vinous aroma with strong alcohol notes, rather simple. In mouth, a sweet light barley wine with grainy malt, not refined, rather boring. Tasted at "Montréal YeHA! Party 2006". Dec. 16 2006.
Tried
on 13 May 2007
at 07:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Medium amber pour, with a lightly fizzy body and pretty much no head - aroma of cookie dough, brown sugar, molasses, and some mild winter/christmas spices (the aroma reminds me of baking christmas cookies as a kid....a lot) - a bit of sweet maple syrup up front, followed quickly by the same qualities in the aroma, dominated mostly by brown sugar, with a slight cookie quality - mild, drying spices arrive later, along with a cleaner, lighter sweetness, like pure cane sugar - alcohol warmth crops up near the finish, adding a rum-like flavor - a little thin in the finish, making the alcohol burn a little bit more than is welcome, but otherwise this is an original and enjoyable barleywine.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Mar 2007
at 21:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours deep amber into a snifter. Tan head recedes to skim surface and hug rim. Tear lacing. Alcohol aromas. Sweet and sticky with a lasting alcohol finish.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2007
at 18:21