Golden with a white head - Malt aroma - Malt body with some nice hop bitterness - Hop bitterness in the finish - This was nice

Pale yellow with small white head and strong effervescence. Milk, barley malt, grass, and orange peel aroma. Moderately sweet citrus, creamy barley malt, and moderately bitter grass and orange peel flavor. Good body.

Creamy white good mostly lasting head. yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Long heavy bitter finish. Oily palate.

Can from Ingles mix a six. Sometimes old, sometimes fresh, sometimes I can't read the born on date, sometimes they're not stamped. Sat in the fridge a few months anyway. Pint glass at home while roasting some corned beef.

Big, cascading head. Slow to recede.
Sweet oj, pineapple, fresh grapefruit, maybe pog-adjacent smell, some confectionary.
OJ & beer mimosa flavor, sweet red grapefruit, moderate herbal astringency middle end, some actual grapefruit pith on the tail, a twinge of sourness & a hint of very faint orange oil. Really juicy but fails during the team-building exercise & now we can't win the dumb gift card. Not everything new needs to be sweet.
Frothy, solid carb, good acidity, just enough bite.

Okay enough.

2026 vintage
12 oz. bottle
9.6% ABV
Packaged on: 12/12/25
$13.49 6-pk @ Publix

Note: The brewer states that this beer will continue to develop in the bottle for years to come. Which is why I indicated the vintage that I am reviewing.

AROMA: Mildly sweet, with mild floral scents, bread, spice, and hops.

APPEARANCE: Pours an deep amber with a 4-finger, tight-frothed, tan head that dissipates very slowly with excellent lacing. Very inviting!

TASTE: As the beer first touches my palate, I get a brief sense of sweetness that is immediately overcome by moderate-to-high levels of bitterness. Individual flavors are somewhat masked by the bitterness, but I get faint flavors of grass, malt, and caramel.

MOUTHFEEL: Full-bodied with a smooth, creamy texture at the beginning of a sip and then it transitions to a much coarser texture. Which is probably due to the bitterness level and the ultra-dry finish. Carbonation is average.

OVERALL: I've only had a few barleywine beers over the years, so I am certainly no expert on them. But I find this one to taste nothing like the others I've tried in the past. This one is very hoppy and tastes more like an or American strong ale than a barleywine beer. I was genuinely excited to try this beer because I haven't had a barleywine beer in ages, and thought this would be a nice change of pace. But I found myself disappointed because, to me, this was just another hop-forward ale .

The beer is actually a well made beer. It just wasn't what I expected for a barleywine beer, nor anything I would have bought had I known what it was truly like. I've tried many other beers from this brewer, and have enjoyed the vast majority of them. However, I won't be buying this again. Simply because it doesn't fit the barleywine style, or at least not my interpretation of the style. I have a few bottles left so I will let them develop in the bottle, for a year or two, and give them another try. But I'm not holding my breath.

Dose 0,355l: Helles Goldgelb, dezente Trübung, kräftiger stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; leicht fruchtige + malzige Nase, leichte Süße, Zitrusnoten, helle/eingelegte Früchte, florale/grasige Hopfennoten, Malz, Karamell, etwas Honig, leichte Hefearomen, Kuchenteig, fruchtig-malzige Bitterkeit; frischer + leicht fruchtiger Körper, leichte Zitrusnoten, helle/grüne Früchte, florale/grasige Hopfennoten, leicht kräutrig, Limettenabrieb, Malz, Getreide, spritzig, deutliche Kohlensäure, leichte Hefearomen, Brot, Brotkruste; malzig-trockener Nachgang

Draught keg at the Needle & Pin, Loughborough. Light gold, a little hazy with a good-sized white head. Sweet aroma, getting grapefruit, lemon sugar, doughy yeast. Sweet taste, nice malt base, with a gentle bitterness at the finish. Much more rounded than your average hazy.