Back Burner
Southern Tier Brewing Company in Lakewood, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.40
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“first brew of the year”
Long ago, British farmhouse brewers made special ales using the first runnings of the mash. These beers, now called barley wine, are brewed in the tradition of days past. At Southern Tier this long awaited brew is placed on the back burner until the start of the new year. Back Burner Barley Wine is a celebration of things to come and things remembered. It’s conceived in three small batches, using voluminous amounts of barley and hops. The process starts early in the morning and ends late into the night. We hope this rare brew reignites your spirit for another trip around the sun.
10% abv. • 15ºL
Long ago, British farmhouse brewers made special ales using the first runnings of the mash. These beers, now called barley wine, are brewed in the tradition of days past. At Southern Tier this long awaited brew is placed on the back burner until the start of the new year. Back Burner Barley Wine is a celebration of things to come and things remembered. It’s conceived in three small batches, using voluminous amounts of barley and hops. The process starts early in the morning and ends late into the night. We hope this rare brew reignites your spirit for another trip around the sun.
10% abv. • 15ºL
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled: Pours deep amber red with a small head. Malty aroma that has notes of fudge and marshmallows. Flavour is sweet and malty with notes of fudge and liquorice. Finish is hop and alcohol bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2009
at 13:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle 65cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #28. ]Light unclear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light heavy malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, orange, moderate alcoholic. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, and a alcoholic finsh but good balanced. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20090501]
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2009
at 08:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-06-10) Beautiful clear reddish brown. Small white head. Malts, tiny amount of raisin and some sweetness in aroma. Full bodied and dry palate with medium carbonation. Malts, bitterness, tine amount of raisin, sweetness, bitterness and grass in taste. Sweetish and bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2009
at 09:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Murky orange with a medium beige head. Sweet fruity aroma with hoppy notes. Flavour was quite hoppy with pine and, grapefruit and bitter hops. Finished very bitter. I like.
Tried
on 08 Jun 2009
at 08:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottled@Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is fruity, wooden and mildly of alcohol. A quite mild flavour for being a barley wine though. Flavour is quite much sweet fruity and nectary notes along with alcoohol and some bittering hops. Also quite big on the malty side. Very wellbalanced and pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2009
at 07:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 65 cl. Slightly hazy amber golden with a small, rough, off-white head. Sweetish oxidized aroma of caramel and overripe fruit. Full-bodied, sweetish caramel and overrripe fruit. Subdued bitterness. Your typical all American Barley Wine - yum. 010509
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2009
at 16:34
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at DLD 09 ... deep copper ... little tofee malt nose ... sweet toffee ... rich malts ...too much vanilla Bottle at home ... deep brown ... thin tan lacing ... sweet toffee mellow roast nose ... toffee front ... juicy malts ... sweet toffee ... lightest vanilla ... 3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2009
at 13:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From bottle, Papsoes blindtasting #28. Pours hazy deep amber with a small and off-white head. Dry wooden and hoppy aroma, smooth caramelish too. Sweet caramelish, light breadish and roasted malt flavoured. Mild hoppy bitterness and wooden too. Sweet and caramelish finish. Bitter and slowly growing dryness into the far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2009
at 04:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Slight hazy redbrown color, short head. Aroma of caramel malt, fruit, barley, heavy hop, bit sugar. Sweet taste, malty, quite bitter. Bit sweet barley wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2009
at 10:57
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Deep ruby tinted copper coloured body with a thick tan head - beautiful. This is how a barley wine should look! Aroma of perfectly fresh hops, pine cones, alcohol, malt and oak - very nice. Full-bodied; Strong assertive piney and citrusey hops noticeable up front with alcohol, pit fruits, caramel, oak and more hops tucked in. Aftertaste is well-balanced with a lot of malt for all the hops in the mix. Overall, a good and actually mild barley wine - the alcohol definitely comes out, but it isn’t horribly warming and shows well. I’d recommend this one without a secound guess, except for one thing. I hate American brewers only making certain beers available in 65 cL bottles - ESPECIALLY big beers. I think it’s a stupid enough thing to boycott certain beers - but I obviously have purchased this one. I’d rather have this in a 33 cL bottle at MAX, preferably a 25 cL bottle. Aside from that, it’s a good beer by a fairly consistent brewer! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia on 06-February-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 20-April-2009.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Apr 2009
at 23:49