I have been scrolling through old ratings now that I have the time and found that I actually had this beer - and took brief tasting notes - at the Vilvordia Bierproeffestival of 2009, strange that I apparently forgot to include it in my archives, but nice to find that I can still add it to my record eleven years later... From one of the first generation Danish craft brewers, an American style barleywine, served from a 50 cl bottle. Pale yellowish beige, stable, mousy head on a deep amber-bronze coloured beer. Aroma of caramel, congac, pear candy, pineapple, biscuit. Sweet main flavour with clean fruity notes, full, vinous and bit creamy body, very malt-forward for an American style beer (i.e. lacking a bit in American hoppiness), but with a toasty-bitterish, even very lightly coffeeish maltiness to it, accentuated by quite astringent, heating alcohol. A tad crude, perhaps, but certainly an intensely malty beer, with unexpected toasted malt bitter aspect - something I would probably appreciate more today than I did back in 2009, but I have to follow the rating I made at the time, of course...

500 ml bottle sampled in 2008. Unclear reddish brown body with a small beige head. Aroma feels like sweet malt, dry fruit and there is some alcohol. Flavor is quite smooth sweet malt, caramel, dry fruit moderate bitterness and warming alcohol. Fine body and good aftertaste. I see from previous ratings that there is really mixed opinion on this one, it actually seems like the quality might vary a lot from bottle to bottle. Mine where rather nice and enjoyable.

Bottle. Hazy amber with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, oxidized, alcohol and hints of vanilla. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish. 250913

Tap @ the brewery. Pours dark brown with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, brown sugar, some alchohol. Taste is malt, caramel, berries, sugar, booze Medium body, lively carbonated ( alot more carbonation than the bottled ones i had before, maybe just fresher ). 161010

30 cl draft. Dark amber/brown body with medium size off-white head. Flavour is malt, fruit, caramel and hops.

Bottle @ Vilvordia Bierproef Festival, Jette, Brussels. Pours a reddish brown color with a small off-white head. Has a malty caramel aroma with some spicy hints. Sweetish malty caramel flavor with some spicy hints and some hints of hops. Has a sweetish malty caramel finish with some spicy hints.

Bottle at KØ09. Mild alcohol and caramel aroma. Cloudy dark amber colour. Small creamy head. The flavour is malty and slightly spicy. Hint of cream. OK bitterness in the finish.

No head, full stop. Red-chestnut beer, still. Oxydized, sweet bready and fruity. Prematurely aged Doppelbock. Some hops, no bitterness to speak of, rest is pure sweet liqueurish fusels. And as flat as a pancake, despite beign well-bodied and even viscous. Don’t know what’s wrong with it - bad keeping? Certainly not as bad as Jensen seems to think, IMO. But one thing is sure - this is NOTHING like American beer, let alone Barley wine.

Bottle. Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is alcohol, malt, roasted, caramel. Flavour is alcohol, malt, hop, caramel. Nice beer.

Dark brown colour with medium creamy beige head.Aroma of plum and caramel strong bitter mouth feels and light rosted.Feels vinous and well balanced.