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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
275ml bottle from Bentalls of Bracknell. A reddish colour with no head and a heavy aroma of sweet tropical fruit - apricots and dates; very tingly in the mouth, with again intense tropical fruit flvaours and a very strong and obvious alcoholic base; a soft tasty bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2007
at 16:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Vivid amber colour with a slight white head. Aromas of dark fruit, orange peel and chocolate. Sweet flavours of marmalade, toffee and yeast with some hops in the finish. Very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2007
at 13:49
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Best before 21APR08. Aroma of ripe stone fruits, sultanas, malt, and a bit of alcohol. Translucent ruby orange color with virtually no head. Starts with fruity malt. Arguably medium mouthfeel. A little woody. Very light belgian candy aspects. A bit vinous, and the hop isn’t all that bitter. The finish is very dry, and the mouth is left puckerish. It seems to change a bit with each sip. Suspect it might go quite plummy with a few more years. Spectacular.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2007
at 23:04
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
cask.Winter beer fest 07... brown coloured,Rich sweet treacly malt. Lovely well balanced and rich and deep... Oh i really should updated these notes... tk2 Bottle is ok, tasty enough. tk3 ... Cask GBBF 08 ... Bloody marvelous all i could want in a barley wine.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Apr 2007
at 12:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Ruby red colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel, candy sugar and alcohol. Some marzipanous hints also show in background. Flavour is licorace, some chocolate, much spices, malts and hops. Some slight glueish notes in the finish. Long plummy and cherryish aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2007
at 11:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Ruby amber color with small viritually none lacing no head. Aroma is heavy malty, vintage, fruit sweet (strawberry). Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, acidic, moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2007
at 13:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled. Deep ruby, no head. Aroma of cranberries and toasty malt. Sweet and fruity. Densely malty with full body. Lots of caramel, low on hops. Nicely warming, medium bitterness. Very English.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2007
at 04:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask Medium yellowish and very persistent head over red-foxy beer. Mixture of old wine with nuts, sour cherris, slightly acidic portwine. Drier, nearly bitter taste, flavour of bitter chocolater. Gets only vinous in the ende even a bit like fortified wine, strawberry flavoured. Lots of restsugars giving a sticky, near syrupy texture, especially after swallowing. It’s only in the aftertaste taht I get some dry hopoil, on fleeting whiffs. Nice strong ale in the better (sweet) UK tradition.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jan 2007
at 01:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask @ GBBF 2006. Amber colour with a small tan head. Fruity aroma with hints of caramel and dark fruits. Sweet malty flavor with hints of caramel and dark fruits. Sweet malty warming finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Aug 2006
at 08:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A copper-colored beer with a small beige head and lots of floaties. It has an aroma starting off with alcohol and dried fruits, with sweetness, malt, hops and caramel coming later. The flavor is sweet and malty, with lots of hops and some alcohol. Full body and a dry, slightly astringent finish with some roastiness. A nice beer with a nice, long bitterness. (060513)
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2006
at 13:39