Old Marley Barleywine
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company in Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.21
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks to boboski for opening this brew. Pours dark brown with minimal head. The aroma is light with sweetness, hints of alcohol and not much else. The flavor starts with light dark fruitiness that is exceedingly smooth. Then the sweetness hits with hints of molasses, sweet roasted malts and faint caramel. Then the taste turns more bitter and slightly tart with vague hoppiness and a bit of astringency. The alcohol shows up near the finish along with more caramelness.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2007
at 11:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Very English in character. Sour aroma with sugar and yeast. A still beer, no carbonation. Flavor has sugar and interestingly, Stilton cheese and more cheese in the finish. Cloudy brown appearance. Unusual and good.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2007
at 16:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. [ Courtesy of madsberg ] Dark brown color with a virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, roasted, dark chocolate, port, vanilla, smoke / soy sauce ?, alcohol. Initial flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with long duration. Long dry finish with a good balance. Body is medium to full, texture is oily / syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2007
at 11:06
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Very lazy, slow build-up of the grey-cream coloured head. Dry, woody, tannine-rich; bit of resins/hoppy. Spicey, not unlike but not the same as cardemom; dry, flaked bitter chocolate. Very bitter, outspoken dark full cacao-chocolate character, a bit to the detriment of anything else. Sharp, everlasting bitterness, metallic. Not the best kind of hops, IMO. Full bodied, but not really rich as one expects from a Barley Wine. Sharp bitterness keeps going on. I’m not totally convinced. This is another on that goes over the top, with a metallic hop onslaught and a lack of fullness & alcohol not really apt for a BW. Some fusels would help...
Tried
on 28 Apr 2007
at 15:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2006 bottle; Nose is dark fruit, caramel, and some woodiness; hazy dark walnut with very little head; flavor shows caramel malts, dark fruits, bourbon, vanilla, and some alcohol (pretty well covered though), with some mild hop bitterness showing at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2007
at 19:52
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Hazy and opaque reddish brown almost without any head. - not your typical Barley Wine look. Odd, unclean aroma - some dried fruit perhaps. Quite full-bodied with accents of roasted malt and dried fruit - perhaps some plums. A bitter finish. Quite inharmonious. 011206
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2006
at 13:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at the Odds and Ends Tasting on 8/16/06: Pours a dark chestnut color with a thin beige head and spotty lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel and brown sugar, as well as some citrus and pine. Rich body with a resiny mouthfeel. Flavors of vanilla, oak and caramel. Slight alcohol burn on the back of the tongue. The finish is well-rounded with bittersweet chocolate and roasted malt. Very enjoyable.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2006
at 16:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled 2005. Dark hazy caramely-brown body, medium cream head. Aroma prevalent in the sweet aroma, otherwise dominated by brown sugar, caramel, and a touch of toffee with rough, resiny bitter, citric hops. Toffee also lends an interesting character to the flavor, complemented by caramel and earthy, leafy hops, brown sugar, and prickly, bitter alcohol. The effects of oak were relatively subtle. Nice full-bodied beer built for winter, but very nice even on a warm summer night.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2006
at 20:36