Bigfoot (2025)
(Batch of Bigfoot)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Winter|
Score
7.62
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Extreme in the '80s and a force of flavor today, Bigfoot is a timeless beast of a beer, forever tracked for its enormous malt body and sheer hop intensity. Drink it fresh, or cellar each year's expedition to unleash a world of new flavors over time.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at Liquid Dreams 26. Dark chestnut. Foamy off-white head. Aroma has warming fruit and spice. Flavourwise it has the aroma elements plus spice and resin. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish
Tried
from Draft
at
Mall Tavern
on 28 Feb 2026
at 17:00
8.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bought locally, packaged December 6th 2024.
Deep clear amber, plenty of foam, very good retention and lacing.
Smell is pine, orange zest, light caramel malt.
Taste is pine, orange, light caramel malt, still quite bitter overall.
Soft mouthfeel, this is Bigfoot!
Deep clear amber, plenty of foam, very good retention and lacing.
Smell is pine, orange zest, light caramel malt.
Taste is pine, orange, light caramel malt, still quite bitter overall.
Soft mouthfeel, this is Bigfoot!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2026
at 15:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from De Bierkoning, Amsterdam, Netherlands. An amber/brown coloured with a medium off white head on top. Hoppy, malty, caramel, pine taste and aroma. Nice bitterness and still a great beer. Not had this beer for at least a decade and it's less bitter IMO which makes it even easier to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2025
at 19:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
12 oz bottle. Aroma is citrusy, burnt caramel, floral, old lady perfume, orange. Pours hazy amber with a one+ finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is bittersweet with caramel malt and stale citrusy hop flavors. More like an old school imperial IPA that’s been sitting on the shelf months past its prime than a real barleywine. This is sad, because this is the beer that got me into craft beer almost 30 years ago. Now it’s tasting really substandard.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2025
at 07:43
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottles from House Of Trembling Madness. Amber body with a light haze and a beige head. Low carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of raisin, strawberry syrup and toffee. Flavour of malt sweetness, black pepper and a whack of bittering hops. Medium to full body with a smooth mouthfeel. Soft fizz. A hoppy, peppery barley wine. I’m glad I bought a couple more bottles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2025
at 09:16
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. My first in a number of years; a pleasure to find it again. Nose is malty, bread, brown sugar, a resinous, hoppy pine.
Taste is big resin, pine, grapefruit, honey, leading to brown sugar, a hint of vanilla, more pine, , dough, malt, and a peppery pine finish.
It's a wonderful beer and I have missed it.
Taste is big resin, pine, grapefruit, honey, leading to brown sugar, a hint of vanilla, more pine, , dough, malt, and a peppery pine finish.
It's a wonderful beer and I have missed it.
Tried
on 29 May 2025
at 21:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2025
at 02:46