#argentina --- Beer merged from original tick of Barleywine on 07 Feb 2024 at 19:54 - Score: 7. Original review text: #argentina

30/12/2018. Bottle at Costa Burger overlooking Puerto Madryn beach. Pours cloudy dark amber with minimal head. Aroma of toffee, hops, syrup, sweet malt and fruit. Medium plus sweet and medium bitterness. Full bodied, sticky texture, average to soft carbonation. Not the most refined barley wine but certainly very drinkable and hides its strength.

Bottle. Pours golden, with a nice, full head. Very hoppy aroma with lots of pine and resin, almost drowning what little malt comes through. Flavour is very fruity, with a lot of hoppy bitterness, but here there’s in addition some lightly burned, caramel malt. This would be a very good APA or even IPA, but the hop domination of the malt has got to affect the rating of this as a BW.

19th March 2009
Slightly hazy amber beer. Soft and smooth with a brief visit of sweet malt before giving way to unsubtle alcohol. Doesn’t really taste like a barleywine to me. What I had was ok but I had no interest in finishing the bottle.

Bottle 500ml. @ The Danish Summer Gathering Tasting, TSODRBSG09. [ As Antares Simpatico ].Clear medium orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, fruity, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090822] 7-3-7-3-14 Bottle 330ml. [ As Antares Barley Wine ].Clear medium orange colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sweet malt, caramel, dried fruit, light alcoholic. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt, dried fruit, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20130620] 7-4-7-3-15

Bottle, 75cl, as Simpatico. A clear, golden beer under a small off-white head. Malty, bready nose with a roasted hint. Fruity hops and citrus-peel and alcohol as well. Malty and bready flavor too, with resiny hops and sweetness. Full-bodied and warming. Lasting bitter finish with sweetness. The alcohol is too evident in this one and it somehow feels a bit one-tracked, still it’s a good example. 090822

courtesy of ibrew2or3. Highly underrated BW. pours amber, dark head. Aroma of caramel with hints of herbs Flavor, caramel, spices, malts finish had some possible sourness to it hinting to tartness. Some elements are well done while some of the BW aspects are a little to be desired.

750 mL courtesy of kp. Pours deep gold with copper core and tall off white head. The aroma is a bit spicy and mixes with the additional notes of apricot and mildly musty sweet malts. The taste begins with slick sweet malts and sweet apricots. It then gets a bit more fruity with apricot skin and apple skin tartness mixing with plenty of malty and fruity sweetness. The hops seem to show up with some late addition to the boil spice hop flavor and a dash of earthiness.

Botttle @ Danish Summer Gathering, 2009. Pours unclear amber with a creamy white head. Sweet malty nose. Corn, fruit and toffee. Very sweet and sticky and warm from alcohol.

clear yellow, small white head. aroma is sweet, fruity, spicy.some hops. nice. flavor is bitterhoppy, dry, spicy.