Oak Horizontal
Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.49
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Feast your eyes on Oak Horizontal, our Bourbon Barrel-Aged American Barleywine. Kentucky bourbon barrels and Old Horizontal cozied up for over a year to make this savory labor of love rich with notes of vanilla and toffee, followed by notes of sweet brown sugar and fudge.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 mL bottle. Pours a clear orange amber with an off-white head. Sweet but somewhat muted oaky bourbon aroma, bready caramel. Flavor is a good mix of oak, bourbon, and bready toastiness. A very nice pairing of beer and barrel treatment.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2014
at 20:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
750 mL bottle from Beer Run. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a thin white head. Fair head retention. Aroma of citrus hops, toffee, mild bourbon and toasted wood. The taste is toffee, wood, citrus, candied citrus, dark fruits, mild bourbon. Medium bodied, low carbonation, hot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2014
at 19:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 12/20/2012. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy deep ruby red color with a small dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big caramel, raisin, fig, citrus peel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, brown bread, vanilla, clove, oak, bourbon, light coconut, light pine, and toast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good complexity and balance of dark malt, bourbon barrel, and light-moderate hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big caramel, raisin, fig, citrus peel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, brown bread, vanilla, oak, clove, bourbon, coconut, light pine, and toast/oak earthiness. Fair amount of earthy oak tannin bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, raisin, fig, citrus peel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, vanilla, oak, clove, bourbon, brown bread, light coconut, and toast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity of dark malt, bourbon barrel, and light hop flavors; with a great malt/barrel flavor balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a creamy, moderately slick, and lightly syrupy/sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent BA barleywine. All around great complexity and balance of deep malt, bourbon barrel, and light-moderate hop flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the big ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2014
at 20:35
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ Novare Res. Aroma has a huge oak influence with the bourbon being subtle. Also over ripe fruits and thick caramel malt. Flavor is really nice. The oak is the largest influence with vanilla, light bourbon, caramel candy, molasses and dried fruit sprinkled with sugar. Medium to full body with soft carbonation.
The malt depth with the combination of the oak makes this a complex brew. The ABV isn’t super noticeable until after I finished the glass and got up and walked around. Smooth and sweet without being cloying. Finely crafted. I should pick up a bottle and cellar it.
The malt depth with the combination of the oak makes this a complex brew. The ABV isn’t super noticeable until after I finished the glass and got up and walked around. Smooth and sweet without being cloying. Finely crafted. I should pick up a bottle and cellar it.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2014
at 05:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle split with jortiz82 and one of our mutual friends. Poured a nice medium brown head, with a light off-white tan head. Aroma compared to it’s base beer was a lot more mellowed, barley wine still in there, but barrel and light woody vanilla has taken over. Alcohol is very well masked in this one, mellowed quite a bit. Woody, sweet caramel notes. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2014
at 22:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with abeige head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, alcohol, wood, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, over ripe fruits, and alcohol, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 08:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
75 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is toastedmalty and caramelish. Toasted malty, caramelish and coconut. Bitter, roasted and caramelish. Toasted and breadish. Bitter and roasted malty. Dry and roasted into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 08:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out bourbon barrels, dark fruits, booze, and caramel - seems quite boozy and barrel-heavy. Flavour brings out a decent amount of booze, some vegetal notes, some slight bourbon, and caramel. Not overly hot, but not overly complex either. Whatever they did to the base beer, they took out the complexity. I much prefer the Old Horizontal, which is way more caramel and dark fruit oriented. It's decent, but the vegetal notes are too prominent for me. It's alright.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2014
at 22:44