10 Years 1000 Celebration Ale
Epic Brewing Company in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Collab with: Steam Brewing CompanyBarley Wine - Barley Special
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Score
7.52
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8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From a 500ml bottle is on 1/5/2018. Pours a deep cloudy amber with almost no head. Has quite a strong aroma of caramel and stewed fruit. Massively sweet in the mouth - oodles of caramel, butterscotch, toffee, honey and ripe and dried fruit. Even a hint of milk chocolate. There is a decent bitterness at the back but the sweetness certainly prevails. The palate is sticky and syrupy, with softish carbonation. This is the sweetest barley wine I’ve ever had, but with a very sweet tooth, I can happily live with that. It may not be for everyone, but it’s a mightily impressive malty dessert treat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2018
at 11:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit aroma with weak hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2017
at 05:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - Toffee and some leafy hop notes. Clear amber. Nice caramel notes and sweetness with the hops firmly in the background. This is a great, rich and sweet barley wine that is good to drink fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2016
at 15:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Mikkeller Bangkok. Poured a dark amber colour with a round off white head. The aroma is sweet sugary malt, sticky toffee caramel, some alcohol. The flavour is moderate to strong sweet with a rich smooth oily sweet malt, sticky toffee pudding, red berry fruit, light spice palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation. A fitting celebration ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2016
at 10:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Has a bright amber-brown colour. Not much head. The aroma is complex, toasty, touch of pine/pitch. Similar piney character, sweet golden syrup/toasty malts, raisins, golden plums. Very complex, but with a beautiful pale fruitiness, and a dash of toasty character.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2016
at 22:28
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500mL bottle, pours a dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma brings out dry toasted bread, a little caramel and a very British malt characteristic. Flavour is rich and complex, with loads of caramel, toasted bread, toffee and a wonderful earthy quality. Complex as hell, decadent, sweet but not cloying and with tons of depth. Fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2016
at 22:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Wax over shiny black poster paper like a flasher putting a condom over his raincoat. Clear deep amber with a pale beige head that lasts pretty well. Luscious aroma of whisky toffee, sultana, vanilla, white pepper. Sticky, low carbonation. Very sweet with fairly big bitterness and integrated some alcohol at the end. More toffee, bread and toast than dried fruit (thought there’s sultanas and plums) spices come through too much for me at the end. Good, but perhaps needs a little time for the flavours to meld a bit more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2016
at 08:40