8/10
Tried
on 25 Aug 2025
at 22:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 25 Aug 2025
at 16:13
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
on 25 Aug 2025
at 15:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle from Havnens Vin & Tobakhus (vintage year brew date: 2018-10-02). Pours muddy dark brown with a tiny white head. Aroma is intense dried yeast, Vegemite, caramel, syrup, nutmeg, cola, port wine, and liquorice root. Taste is medium to very sweet, light bitter, light to medium acidic, and light salty. Body is watery with light carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and acidic with intense notes of caramel, dried yeast, Vegemite, oak barrel, syrup, nutmeg, cola, port wine, and sultana raisins and dried figs. Knowing that the ABV is rather high, it actually feels a bit thin. It is also too sour for a barley wine (if you ask me).
Tried
from Bottle
from
Havnens Vin & Tobakhus
on 20 Aug 2025
at 22:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2025
at 17:51
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks. A clear reddish copper coloured pour with a a fading halo. Aroma is big boozy fruit cake, nutty, raisin, boozy, bruised grape,. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, sticky, boozy, fruit cake, spicy wooden barrel staves.. Smooth, spicy. Palate is thick chewy hot alcohol, lovely.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2025
at 17:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
20th August 2025
Team tasting at CBJ, thanks to me for the bottle. Clear amber beer, a few tan bubbles never come close to forming a head. Smooth and slightly viscous palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Brandyish flavours and some obvious alcohol. A little heat and a little more spice. Ripe fruits, touch of coffee. Spicy semi dry finish. Amusing but, Struise have done much better and bigger.
Team tasting at CBJ, thanks to me for the bottle. Clear amber beer, a few tan bubbles never come close to forming a head. Smooth and slightly viscous palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Brandyish flavours and some obvious alcohol. A little heat and a little more spice. Ripe fruits, touch of coffee. Spicy semi dry finish. Amusing but, Struise have done much better and bigger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2025
at 17:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from the Needle & Pin, Loughborough. Amber and mostlyclwar with a ring of off-white head. Big malt aroma, Belgian yeast, candy sugar. A little candied orange peel. Sweet and strong taste with more orange peel flavours, strong boiled sweet, spicy yeast. Full body with carbonation on the heavy side.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Needle & Pin
on 19 Aug 2025
at 19:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Frothy good mostly lasting head. Dark brown colour. Heavy malty and modetrate hoppy aroma-. Heavy bitter flavor. Long great finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2025
at 16:00
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle, 750 ml, shared with Eric, Luka, MiroB. Black with almost no head. Chocolate, dark fruit, some peat, moderate sweetness, bit jammy. Delicious. Drinks so nicely for ABV.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2025
at 22:00