Sloefmans (15519) reviewed English Barley Wine from Rondadora 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Slowly building-up and fast disappearing cream-coloured head over redbrown beer. Old wine vats & barrels, fortified wine, portwine, raisins, bit nutty; (red) fruit on alcohol. Portwine, biscuit, nutcake with port. Brazil nuts & raisins; preserved red fruit. Quite rich, very slick/oily; alcoholheat, warming; but no trace of new flavours or deepening in the finish and aftertaste. Very classic Barley wine - in the better sense of the word. Txs to Stef!
Taboada (8889) reviewed West Coast IPA from Rondadora 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draft, half pint. @"random bar", Aínsa (Spain). 09/08/2025
[#8.599 Global - #1.578 Spain - #2 Rondadora]
Pours golden with a white head. Aroma: pine resin, grassy hops and light caramel. Taste: pine resin, grassy hops and light spiced malts. Dry palate.
Next one, please!
Taboada (8889) reviewed Nabata from Rondadora 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft, half pint. @"random bar", Aínsa (Spain). 09/08/2025
[#8.598 Global - #1.577 Spain - #1 Rondadora (My Spanish brewery #331)]
Pours pale golden with a medium white head. Aroma: mixed malts, yeast and lime. Taste: light citrusy and honey malts. Refreshing.
Next one, please!
Reubs (35701) reviewed English Barley Wine from Rondadora 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 13/06/2024 Jens Smagning 13/06/2024 - sweet and toasted malty with caramel and fudge like notes, dried fruit, medium body, red wine accents into the spiced malty close. --- Beer merged from original tick of & Montnegre English Barley Wine on 27 Mar 2025 at 06:04 - Score: 7. Original review text: Jens Smagning 13/06/2024 - sweet and toasted malty with caramel and fudge like notes, dried fruit, medium body, red wine accents into the spiced malty close.
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed English Barley Wine from Rondadora 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A deep red beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, caramel, malt, and a bit of spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and spices, leading to bitter finish.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed India Pale Ale from Rondadora 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
IPA hopped with Citra, Topaz, Columbus and Chinook (and intended as a West Coast IPA) from this craft brewery in northeastern Spain. Gusher, so be ware when opening. Initially towering high but quickly collapsing, egg-white, very mousy, audibly crackling, thickly cobweb-lacing, irregular and very uneven-bubbled, eventually opening head on an initially lightly hazy, warm orange-tinged 'old gold' beer with a disparate suspension of tiny, translucent yeast bits; shifts to a more 'equal' misty orange with the sediment added. Expressive aroma of orange flower water, freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice, mandarin slices soaked in white wine, lemon candy, honey, lychee wine, hints of overripe nectarine, orange cookies, marmalade, rusty iron (oxidation!), cedar oil, gasoline, olive oil. Sweet onset, lots of 'hop fruitiness' whilst relatively low in esters, impressions of peach, melon, lychee and strawberry, light sourish edge, softly tingling carb, slick and oily, slender body. Thinly caramelly malt backbone, a tad resinous with slight dry-biscuity edges, aromatized by very citrusy hoppiness, orange orchard and grapefruit blossom, with a piney edge - but also a noticeable 'rusty' oxidation effect already appearing. The hops, apart from providing this lush citrus effect (almost perfumey - the orange blossom water impression returns), also add a long-stretched, spicy bitterness to the finish, although a trace of sweet maltiness still passes through. The alcohol clearly establishes a certain degree of astringency and warmth, which should never be the case in a beer of 7% ABV. My sample is apparently past its peak, with a light but unmistakable degree of oxidation already in effect, but the citrusy and flowery hop aromas are still very much alive; points off for the gushing and badly hidden alcohol, but that said, I can always appreciate an attempt at looking back into modern craft beer history and reverting to West Coast style IPA, essentially the starting point of the global, postmodern IPA wave. This one needs more piney 'resinousness' and downright grapefruit bitterness to fully qualify as one, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, all things considered.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Onso from Rondadora 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Porter from this microbrewery in the north of Spain - one I never actually heard of, until I came across this one online somewhere. Foamy and thickly mousy, yellowish beige, largely stable head on a very dark chestnut brown beer, as good as black, with mahogany edges. Aroma of dried blackberries, stewed pear, brown bread dough, freshly cut red apple, tea, dried orange peel, black radish, fresh sour cream, walnuts, sawdust, fresh fig, plum, hint of fried tomato. Sweetish onset with sourish edge, fruity with hints of pear, red apple, prune and raisin, medium carbonated with smooth mouthfeel. Toasted walnut- and soggy brown bread-like malt body with those fruity notes lingering about, tad powdery in the end with coffee-ish roastiness but also a deeper hint of black chocolate. The sourish streak continues but in a non-obnoxious way, all the way up to the bittering, malty finish where herbal hops meet a 'diluted' black chocolate effect and remnants of that roasty aspect, as well as some light bready yeastiness. Enjoyable enough, if a tad 'untidy' - needs less yeastiness and more cleanness. Still a decent find, though.
mike_77 (15880) reviewed Onso from Rondadora 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Very dark brown with thin creamy head. Aroma has sweet malts and floral notes. Quite smooth and oily. Light milk chocolate. Slight roasted taste in the finish.
jamaty (3452) reviewed Tronzadora from Rondadora 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dorada oscura, nebulosa y de abundante espuma blanca. Aroma ligeramente frutal, con notas de naranja amarga. En boca, presenta una textura cremosa y agradable con buen punto de gas y un sabor equilibrado, donde predominan maltas acarameladas, con un contrapunto ligeramente frutal, y buen amargor.
blackisle (5729) reviewed Koma from Rondadora 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep amber brown colour, good frothy beige head, mostly diminishing. Aroma toasted malt, grain, dark fruit, malt sugar, liquorice. Flavour medium sweet and slightly bitter, malty, grainy, light coffee, caramel, malt sugar, milk chocolate. Light body, watery texture, soft carbonation, malty sweet aftertaste, roasted and light chocolate notes in the finish. A bit thin and too much malt sugar but despite that a decent dark lager.