6.5

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

Poured up on tap at tipsy where it exhibits a clear deep gold body that supports a nice near white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up fruity esters, bread and spicy bread as well mild spicy hops. The taste delivers similar notes of fruity esters, bready sweetness and mild to meek spicy hoppiness. It ends fairly dry though, so there's that. Not really a Kolsch.

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Can shared by explosivedog: pours gold with white head. Grain, flower and lemon. Taste lightly bitter and quite grainy. Second or third tier.

4.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Can. Pours rich gold. Sulfur, floral, lemongrass, apricot, heavy sulfur, lingering. Medium body. Bad.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

375 ml bottle thanks to ClarkVV on carrying this home. Aroma is Brett, spice, raisins. Flavor has heavy amounts of Bretta. I still get some barley wine in the form of raisins and spice. A different take on the style.

7.6

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

Bottle pour shared by Clark VV--thanks, Clark! It's a maple syrup brown with nice viscosity, no head or lacing. Aroma is strong Brett, dark fruit, caramel, mild whiskey. Taste is strong Brett with caramel, mellow whiskey/bourbon. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, not always a huge Brett fan but more flavor than sour and blends well with the rest.

7

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

375mL undated bottle from the brewery, drunk 2/26/23. Strong caramel color with darker cola-mahogany. Dark beige head quickly to ring. Big brett in the nose, very floral. I love some Brett barleywine, but this seems maybe a touch dominant? Honestly, not sure I could identify the base beer below all the brett. Some vague bread and caramel, I guess but certainly no rich barleywine/stout character, or at least very little of it anyways. Don't get much whiskey either. Not boozey, though, nor does it seem sweet. Richer in the mouth than expected with some almost sticky sweet caramel and vanilla. Brett comes off spicy, herbal almost adding a tart undercurrent. Spicy whiskey in there, as well with more lingering caramel and moderate Brett. Thankfully not as much Brett in flavor, but it's still there. I like the idea of a traditional Barleywine which had brett infections, but I'm not sure just pitching brett in to a barrel (I assume that's what was done here) recreates that. I wonder how close this was to Lazarus? Interesting but ultimately not sure the brett works well here. Kind of disjointed and floral.

7

Thanks Clark, lots of brett, toffee, rye, oak, lots of barrel. Interesting beer.

6

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

On tap at John Henry’s. Pours gold. Biscuit, strawberry, toffee, herbal. Medium body. Not for me.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Brewery draught, 2/11/23. Dark. Small, tan head, low retention. Rich bourbon and buttercream. Spice, vanilla, oak and milk chocolate. Rich, savory, maybe even a touch salty. No booze. So much transformation from the base beer that I had immediately prior. Soft and salted caramel-bourbon with vanilla, oak and spicy whiskey. Rich chocolate-caramel, more vanilla. Medium malt texture up front but getting slightly stronger through the middle ending with just a dollop of syrup. Excellent attenuation, no booze, not over-barreled. Phew, stuff is hella drinkable...could down a pint of this no problem.

8

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

Brewery draught, 2/11/23. Dark. Small, tan head. Cocoa, dark chocolate, bitter coffee roast and some solid greenery from the hops adding piney citrus. Clean, not boozey. Some light honey-white bread helping add to the chocolate maltiness. Soft, malty, heavily dark chocolate-laden. Good base malt sweetness but appropriate attenuation. Vanilla, and coffee roast adding typical stout notes with hops adding citrus and pine. Like an old school hoppy Imperial Stout from Alchemist but so well-done. No booze.