A Over T (Aromas Over Tongham)
Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.94
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Brewed in small batches and matured in the brewery cellar, like a fine wine. Made from high quality English malted barley, Kent Goldings hops are added for bitterness and aroma and Bramling Cross to further enhance the character, resulting in deep, rich and complex flavours of sultanas, orange peel and plums. Enjoy as you would a fortified wine, in a wine glass or a brandy balloon, to concentrate its wonderful aroma.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Dark brown, bit hazy, reddish hue, small beige non lasting head. Aroma is very sweet caramel, raisins and tart fruit with some funkiness and wine notes. Taste is medium to strong sweet caramel, fruits, raisins, tart, winey, bit bready, some phenolics, low to medium peppery bitterness, dry finish, some alcohol. Medium+ bodied, sticky syrupy, soft- carbonation. I believe there’s something off with the bottle as this is not very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2015
at 06:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from apivo.ru. Pours dark red with a small light brown head. Aroma of apples, berries and booze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2015
at 15:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Gravity Dispense at Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival 2012 - 25/10/12. Opaque dark mahogony brown with a thin off white head which soon clears to nothing! Caramel nose, light chocolate, dark fruits, hop tones. Taste follows on, fruity, rich & complex. Fuller end of medium in body with fine carbonation. Well brewed and complex barley wine.
Tried
on 28 Oct 2012
at 14:01
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Schwerer Beginn, süßlich, merkwürdig leer. Hell malzig, süß-alkoholisch, trocken bitter. Etwas Honig – weiterhin ist das Bier aber zu schwach. Getreidige Noten im Abgang. Naja... /8/7/7/9/7
Tried
on 12 Dec 2011
at 13:10
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
29th January 2008
Slightly frothy beer. Thick and somewhat bitter malt. Some brandy notes in the finish. A bit of an effort to drink.
Slightly frothy beer. Thick and somewhat bitter malt. Some brandy notes in the finish. A bit of an effort to drink.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2011
at 16:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the ’Grape and Grain’ beer festival, Crystal Palace. Copper coloured pour with a white head. Caramel, figs, brown sugar and some dried fruit. Alcohol aromas ooze out of this one. Rich treacle toffee taste with a splash of dates, vanilla, caramel, cinnamon and toffee. Good vinous quality. Soothing alcohol burn. Warm, sweet finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Oct 2010
at 09:09
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Churchkey. Clearish brown, scant large bubble head that disappears quickly. Aroma of butterscotch. Taste has raisins, dark fruits, scotch. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Aug 2010
at 00:50
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Gravicask from The Brewery Bar at GBBF 09. Dark tan coloured body with a small, off-white head. Plums and raisin in aroma with a alcoholic tingle. Lots of dried and dark fruits added by dark berries with a underlying caramel and liquorice taste from the malts. Vinous palate with a decent alcohol punch. Full bodied. Good stuff. A bottle of this one on a dark winter night would have been even greater (Earls Court, 07.08.2009)
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Sep 2009
at 09:41
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask@GBBF 2009. Dark nut brown color, small beige head. Light toffee and wood in the nose. Toffee, nuts, caramel. Very balanced. Not very alcoholic. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Aug 2009
at 12:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2009. Deep amber colour with a small head. Port like aroma. Taste of toffee, dark fruits, sweet, malty, boozy. Bloody good stuff!
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Aug 2009
at 17:51