6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours amber with small beige head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is toasted malt and dark fruit. Slick body, raisin, bready malt, light finish, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2021
at 03:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours a dark amber with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is cocoa and cracker malt. Medium body, cocoa, licorice, cracker, dry finish, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2021
at 03:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours black with small beige head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is spice, cocoa, roast, licorice. Slick body, cinnamon, cocoa, roast, cracker, light boozy finish, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2021
at 03:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a milky yellow with a small white head. Aroma is a nice fresh blast of fresh fruity hops. Flavor is likewise. Fruity hops and a decent chewy malt. Decent hazy pale with lots of fruity hops.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2021
at 23:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
5 oz taster pour at the brewery (listed as Barleywine 2020 but can't find a difference in recipe). It's a hazy brown (iced tea) with thin cap of khaki head with good retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong tart apple over caramel. Mouthfeel is light bodied with thin, smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, interesting tart apple aspect but not the heartiest of barleywines.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jul 2021
at 15:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
5 oz pour on tap at the brewery. It's a hazy gold with trace sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with fair retention and nice lacing. Aroma is moderately strong herbal as it warms, mild citrus, light malt. Taste is vegetal, bitter and cracker malt. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin, frothy texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste with lingering bitterness and malt. Overall, not terribly strong, a bit thin and more bitter than I'd like.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2021
at 14:44
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Pint at German Biergarten, Philadelphia airport. Appearance is clear, light brown/dark yellow with finger-width off-white head with good retention and decent lacing. Aroma is sweet fruit (?apple?). Taste is fruit, candied sugar, sweet caramel malts. Palate is medium bodied with smooth texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, if you're looking for a sweet IPA that's not hazy, this might be for you! Not tropical/citrusy but more malty/fruity akin to the Sierra Nevada line.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2018
at 12:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a hazy redish gold with a huge white head. Aroma is some tartness and you do get a vinous grape. Flavor is a big tartness with some dry white wine. Finish is quickly gone with nothing left on the tongue after the swallow. It's tart and you get some of the grapes but not a huge flavor to this.
Tried
on 17 May 2018
at 01:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at share. Big chocolate aroma,sweet, plums. Taste is sweet, more chocolate and plums. Nice feel, slippery. 10% not evident at all. Chocolate covered cherries come to mind,
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2017
at 23:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Got in a BIF from jdell15. 12 ounce bottle into snifter, 2013 vintage bottling. Pours moderately murky dark ruby red, light copper/brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of huge raisin, plum, prune, fig, pear, apricot, red apple, date, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, molasses, roast, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Slight oxidation coming out as it warms. Taste of huge raisin, plum, prune, fig, pear, apricot, red apple, date, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, molasses, roast, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark fruit, pear, apricot, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, molasses, light roast, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium-plus carbonation and very full body; with a very smooth, creamy, silky, and bready mouthfeel that is awesome. Slightly slick, syrupy, sticky, and chalky. Alcohol is very well hidden; very mild warmth of 10.5% lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent English barleywine! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV. Very rich and complex with perfect balance of yeast fruits and dark/bready malt sweetness. Just enough earthy hop presence to balance. This aged really well, not much oxidation. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2017
at 17:36