Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Dark barleywine from this to me unknown Swedish microbrewery, sampled at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest. Creamy, yellowish beige, tiny-bubbled, opening head, very dark chestnut brown robe with mahogany glow. Aroma of candied fig, caramel sauce, cognac, candied orange, milk chocolate hint, vanilla, black pepper, canned peaches. Sweet, dense onset, candied cherries, dried figs and preserved apricots, medium carbonated with full, vinous, oily body, a tad syrupy even; thickly toffeeish, caramelly and biscuity malts with dark-chocolatey edges under a layer of old brown honey-like sweetness, peppery hopped in a structurally important way and eventually heated by brandy-like booze. Rounded, full, complex and demanding, perhaps a tad too dark-malty for a barleywine and in that sense showing off some imperial stout features; a bit less booze and sweetness could also prove beneficial, but taken for what it is, I have to admit it was a welcoming distraction from all the pastry stouts and hazy DIPAs at the festival.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from Systembolaget beställningssortiment. Hazy yellow with a small white head. Grapefruit, pineapple, mild hop burn, grass and some herbs. Bitter finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Color: Lightly hazy golden, large frothy white head. Aroma: Yeasty, subtle notes of citrus and stone fruit, spicy hints. Taste: Moderate sweet, slightly bitter and sweet, fruity stone fruit, citrus fruit (orange, lime), hints of hay and wood. Dry-ish finish. Medium to just under medium body, just below average carbonation. Very well balanced, nice complexity.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022, Saturday Session. A almost black beer. Aroma and Taste of sweet strong dark malt, coffee, vanilla boozy finish.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022, Saturday Session. A black beer. Aroma and Taste of intense bourbon, sweet strong dark malt, boozy.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022, Friday Session. A black beer with a beige lacing. Aroma and Taste of strong dark roasted malt, some peated malt, whiskey, wood.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022, Friday Session. A hazy yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma and Taste of yeasty yellow fruits, pineapple, citrus, grassy hops.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught Frothy white head over fully hazy yellow beer. Inviting smells of cilandro, grapefruit, citruspeel and a bit of asafoetida. Pineapple, asafoetida, guave, passion fruit, but lacking a bit of fruitacids. Medium bodied, good carbonation, long-lasting flavours. Good, if maybe a bit unremarkable - certainly for Mariatorgets.