Barleywine
Retimi (Rethymnian Independent Microbrewery) in Gonia, Crete, Greece 🇬🇷
Collab with: Kykao - HandcraftedBarley Wine - Barley Special
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Score
6.65
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The strong bond between RETIMI and KYKAO, forged during our years of homebrewing, was celebrated with a collaborative brewing session in Crete in early 2024.
The result is a bold barleywine with rich notes of toffee, bitter almond, and deep umami flavors - perfect for warming your heart, just as this collaboration warmed ours.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can courtesy of Kostas, Kykao brewery, cheers Kostas. Had this Saturday 14th February 2026 at the Manglham 2nd Winter Tasting, listening to Maserati - Rehumanizer. Pours dirty amber with next to no head, a touch flat, too sweet, this hasn't done much for me. Score 6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, with deadly wax. Cloudy red amber, low head spice honey aroma. Medium light dry sugary body, metallic or clayish notes, sweet grain finish, sticky. Not the most interesting.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Fancy waxed bottle at the Mangled Ham 2026, huge thanks Fin & Loz & Kostas I reckon! Hazy reddish-amber body, fleeting head. Oxidation, vanilla, low dried fruit in the aroma, minerally. Lean taste, kinda weak body supporting a sugary caramelly/dried fruit presence... barely, very dried out and yet very sweet, I mean... a paradox of a beer. Caramel, dried fruit, vanilly, but also astringency and minerally notes, oxidation. Solid warmth too. All over the place, but doing little to please I'm afraid. Learning process hopefully for the brewers involved.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
0,33 l bottle from Antika Irish Pub, Rethymno. Waxed cap. BB 10.12.2034. Murky brown in the glass, smallest fast fading head. Plum and chewing gum on the nose. Taste starts also with plum, little bit scratchy, some chewing gum and pale grain. Alcoholic with sweetness. No carbonation. Strong stuff.
Toffee, almonds, subtle notes of caramel and cacao. This is very well done, very nice balance.
Magus, linnaseline, puuviljane, nata oksüdeerunud, suhkur,alks. Ok.
Sweet, bit sourish, prunes, sugary, alcohol, hoppy