From a can, hazy yellow color, but not as cloudy, or as white as the classic Hoegaarden. Standard wit aroma, some coriander, wheat, and orange. Lightly sweet, and medium palate. This is better than most American examples.

Copper color. No head and carbonation is low. Soft palate until the end when there is some chalk, The initial aroma is marijuana as well as fruit, some citrus and papaya. too many different hops I think, which makes it difficult to pick out specific flavors and aromas. there is osme sugar but this is on the dry side for the style, wkhich i have admittedly not had very many other samples. Balanced with hops and malt, but not as good as some other recent New England IPAs done locally by Modist or Black Stack.

Can. high carbonation and lots of foam. Standard appearance. Belgian yeast is recognizable in the aroma immediately. Flavor has more hops than many of the style, dry mostly, some malt flavor with a little spice I can’t identify. Dry finish. Simple and without much complexity, and I think that is ok for what they are trying to do with this beer.

12oz bottle poured into small Hill Farmstead glass. This has most of the trappings of this style. Aroma is fruity, astringent, fruity cherry, and alcohol. Flavor is astringent slicky malts. Just a thin, industrial beer with all the offputting qualities one can put into a barleywine. Glowing rose amber color.

Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce can into pint glass, best before 11/3/2016. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy medium golden/yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big lemon, ginger, wheat, cracker, corn, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance of pale malt, ginger, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, ginger, wheat, cracker, corn, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/grassy bitterness and peppery ginger spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, ginger, wheat, cracker, corn, biscuit, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt, ginger, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and no astringent hop/ginger notes after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from bitter/spiciness, increasing though the glass. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.3%. Overall this is a very nice spiced cream ale! All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt, ginger, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, and quite refreshing to drink. Very well made cream ale to style. Very vibrant on ginger, but not overpowering and well balanced with the base beer. A very enjoyable offering.

On tap at Whitey’s. Pours a very dark brown with a light brown head that dissipates slowly to the edges and laces. Aroma has a good amount of chalky dark grains with light pine, light coffee and light roasted malts supported. Flavor is similar with the chalky dark grains, earth coffee, pine and a hint of roasted malts.

tap. crazy barleywine - so much going on in this beer. shared it as a flight so can’t fully rate other than i really enjoyed it

Sampled at Winterfest 2017. black color. a little whiskey in the aroma and the flavor, thick palate like the normal beer, some sweet malt, combined with the roasted flavors, and coffee in the end. Whiskey character is not particularly strong, so it was an interesting version of the beer, rather than a ruined beer.

Draft/Fest. A- Caramel, malty. A- Copper color, clear liquid, white head. T- Mild bitterness, boozy, caramel malts. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bland finish. O- Quite mild and underwhelming. I expect a lot more complexity from Summit, especially for an anniversary beer. Not bad just pretty flavorless.