jcr (3164) reviewed Kölsch from Bristol Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12
Draft at Kinfolk Mountain Outfitters. Manitou Springs, Colorado. So the outside of the store says it is an outfitters and, sure enough, there is outfitter gear in the windows. But when I walked in to check out mountainwear and such, I found that half the store is a bar with some decent beers available on tap and by the bottle. I opted for a beer instead of a fleece. Clear light gold pour with a thin head. The aroma was lightly malty (grain and bread) and lightly hoppy (grass and flowers). The flavor was lightly sweet and lightly bitter. The bitterness asserted itself a little more in the finish. Light, smooth body with a watery texture. Lively carbonation. Clean and crisp. Nice summer session beer.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Huge thanks to tpd975 for opening this rare gem. Pours dark darkness with thin dark brown that quickly vanished. The aroma is inviting with caramel, vanilla and rich ripe dark fruity esters of sweet Concord grape jam, plums and ripe cherries. A bigger draw begins to pick up the alcohol heat. The mouth feel is chewy fudgy slushy and sludgy sugar sticky sugar malts. I get notes from the nose showing up in the flavor such as vanilla, caramel, molasses, toffee along with faint notes of dark chocolate. The taste does have a solid alcohol warming sensation but well within reason for the gynormous ABV. This was very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
@Hoboken#1-thanks beastiefan2k –pours a disappearing tan head and dark brown color. Aroma is sweet dark malt, smoke. Taste is sweet dark malt, faint smoke. Easy but somewhat thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2005 vintage from Degarth, thanks buddy. Pours a slightly hazy dull copper, brown orange with thin white head. The aroma is full with a load up front of citrus hop flavor such as over ripe orange wedges and cantaloupe mixed with an alcohol note. There is also a more classic barleywine nose of dark fruit hidden behind the ripe citrus and melon along with a faint undertone of caramel. I’m drinking this in the 60F range. The flavors start off smooth and seemingly neutral. Then some mild sweet caramel malt notes start things going along with blunted citrus hop flavor and glimpses of hop bitterness. As the taste progresses the hop component becomes both hard orange candy like as well as over ripe oranges. Toward the finish the malts creep up and add some balanced to the citrus with caramel, toffee and a hint of bread. The alcohol flavor becomes noticeable as the taste ends. I get grapefruit hop bitterness, sweet orange hard candy and mild malt sweetness into the after taste.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Bottled. A deep red beer with a rim of brown head. The aroma is very complex with notes of alcohol, over ripe fruits, bourbon, and wood. The flavor is very, very malty combined with notes of caramel, bourbon, prunes, over ripe fruits, and alcohol, that burns in the throat.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Black color, the head disappears quickly. Strange aroma, mixing the usual elements with alcohol, phenol and medicines; if not for the roasted malt, it smells like some herbal Mead. Strong flavor of caramel, maple, some chocolate and light roasted malt; sweet too, with some vanilla; the alcohol is really burning, probably more than any other beer; the mouthfeel is not thick, too much carbonation for such a beer. Very chaotic and strange, not an excellent beer, I like some flavors but it’s extremely alcoholic and weird.
yespr (55501) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown and witha reddish hue and a completely gone, fizzy brown head. Aroma is heavy chocolate, slight eye burning alcohol. Flavour has a lovely chocolate flavour to a solid oaked alcohol flavour, slight spiced. Ends quite warming. Nice to fantastic.
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Bierkönig. Pours a clear, reddish brown with a tiny, off-white head. Intense aroma of overripe fruit and wood. Extremely full-bodied with a shipload of roasted malt, dried and overripe fruit. Woody, almost cognac style notes with an overwhelming alcohol finish. But really more like a Barley Wine or an Old Ale than an IS. Truly excellent - I’m surprised by the mediocre ratings. 171107
jcwattsrugger (14787) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle-pours a thin dissipating brown head and black color with red tint. Aroma is plenty of dark malt-molasses/tar, dark fruit, some vinuous. Taste is nice and big, plenty of dark malt, sweet molasses/chocolate/tar, dark fruit, some alcohol comes through but nice compared to actual 20%, some earthy/wood hops, smooth. Ok/mild carbonation. Occasional. Not my style but well done.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Jimmack Invitational’07, shared by lou18. Pours completely dead with no head or lacing. Aroma is strong alcohol and maple syrup. Taste is all about alcohol with some chocolate and again more maple syrup. Overpowering, nose scorching, off putting. Too sweet, too strong, too nasty, not beer-y enough.