Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9.5
Pint can pours with a nice dark chocolate colored body that supports a thin ring of tan foam. The aroma offers up malts, vanilla, a bit of chocolate brownie and smooth bourbon booze and a dash of heat. The taste is smooth and slick where chocolate plays with mildly roasted malts and slight sense of vanilla and oak. To midway the modest degree of smooth bourbon and a growing alcohol heat bubble to the surface and take this into the finish. This is a fine offering with great beer to barrel treatment balance and just the right amount of depth and richness. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Pint can pours with a clear copper colored body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up various fruity notes from, what seems like, fruity ester to tropical peach, mango and a bit of guava. Nice. The taste is smooth and showcasing peach and mango and guava fruitiness rimmed thinly with modest pine like or vague like resiny hop bitterness. It ends with some lingering peach like fruitiness. This works well and leaves a mild warming in the gut likely due to the massive ABV. I dig it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Pint can pours with a crystal clear deep gold colored body that supports a nice off white head of foam. The aroma offers up some pine hops and then some sharp grapefruit like hoppiness with a sense of malts in the background. The taste delivers chewy life affirming pine hop bitterness to start. To midway a lovely thin grapefruit like hop bitterness joins the bitter hop party. The hop expression here is supported nicely by a modestly sweet maltiness that creates a nice mouth feel. Well crafted, well executed. Love it.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pint can pours with a clear ruby red to mahogany colored body that supports a nice light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, crystal malts and a touch of vague to toffee like reduced sugar. The taste delivers smooth sweet malts that are mildly sweet but produce some lightly roasted cracker to crystal maltiness. To midway there's blunted and malt nuanced pine like hoppiness create a pleasing balance to the experience. Fun session barleywine. I dig it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Pint can pours with a nice deep dark colored body that supports a full tan head of foam. The aroma offers up grapefruit to tangelo like hoppiness as well as dark roasted malts and even a dark roasted coffee like sensation. The taste delivers moderately bitter grapefruit like hops as well as tangier tangelo to tangerine citrus notes. Competing with the hops are roasted to highly roasted maltiness from likely black patent. There's also a touch of earthiness and faint sweet malt like sensation. I love the dark roasted malts and the firm hoppy balance here.