Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the Downtown location. Pours a clear straw yellow with a white head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has light smoke with some grass, hay and a touch of wheat underlying. Flavor has a nice light woody smoke with a bit of hay, straw and a growing wheat.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a deep dark amber mahogany with a tiny head. Aroma is huge on the wild yeast and musty red wine grape skins, with lots of hay and dry red vinous character. Flavour is musty, dry and buggy, with a real nice blend of wild yeast and red wine grape skins. For an almost-10% beer, this is surprisingly timid. Fairly complex and quite refined, just not as intense as one might expect. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a cloudy dark orangey amber with a small off-white head. Aroma has lots of floral, pot-like hops that combine with lacto and some other bugs — not really getting much plum. Flavour is dry, lots of floral dry-hopping, gentle plums, lacto, and a touch of bugs. Very dry. It does all come together, even if the lacto gives a more yogurty character than I want.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a hazy dark amber with a small off-white head. Aroma has plenty of cocoa nibs upfront, followed by toffee, light vanilla and sweet caramel malt. Flavour is surprisingly bitter and dry, with bitter cocoa nibs, toffee, and fermented out caramel. I can't tell if the malt bass is lacking or if this was just fermented out too long. Finishes a bit metallic as a result. Not AZW's best.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a hazy dark amber with a small off-white head. Aroma has toasted pecans, some fermented out brown sugar, and light toffee. Flavour is plenty of brown sugar, light toasted pecans, a bit of vanilla, and toffee. Sweet but far from cloying, and there is enough malty depth to carry the unusual adjuncts. Solid.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a clear pale golden with a medium white head. Aroma is dry, with fresh straw and wheaty notes. Flavour is clean, likewise with fresh straw and wheaty notes. Much more interesting than your standard piss macro lager. It's nothing too interesting but it's done well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Nose is very dank, with lots of pot-like hops, some pine, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is dank and dry, with potent dank hops, pine, some light oily resins, and a thin biscuity malt base. Robust, clean and only borderline abrasive. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma has dry wispy wheat and a touch of banana-like esters. Flavour is reasonably dry, with straw, wheat, and light esters. Clean and easy, but nothing special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at AZW - DTPHX, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has lots of dry wispy wheat, a hint of smoke, and straw. Flavour is soft, with a nice wispy wheaty bass, subtle smoke, and straw. Dry, wheaty and subtly smoky finish. Solid stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pint can pours with a slightly hazy copper colored body that has thin golden hues and supports a fairly short lived white head of foam. The aroma offers up malty sugars, vanilla, a dash of plum and then some cinnamon, cardamon (I suppose as it comes off as just a vague sort of spiciness outside of the realm of the cinnamon note) and then more vanilla. The taste delivers smooth sweet wide swath of vanilla bean rimmed thinly with cinnamon and diving into a lactose sensation. Another sip reveals a sense of floral hoppiness intermingling with a bit of plum like sweet fruitiness and then ranging right back into more vanilla into the finish. The ABV is very well hidden. The treatment comes across a little too strong and strangles the base beer flavours into an early death. Fun experience but these pastry barleywines aren't really my bag. Give me my damn bag!