Quakerbridge
Half Acre Beer Company

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From:
Half Acre Beer Company
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
American Barleywine
ABV:
10%
Score:
87
Avg:
3.89 | pDev: 9.77%
Reviews:
28
Ratings:
154
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 26, 2020
Added:
Nov 13, 2012
Wants:
  12
Gots:
  23
We welcome the cold and greet these holiday-rich days with Quakerbridge Barley Wine. An incarnation of a Half Acre favorite, Marty Stouffer’s Wild America Barley Wine, this weighty beer is a choose-your-own-adventure experience. Freshly plugged, this beer is a hop guster to bring your holiday retreat to its knees, but time allows this brew to round and settle into an ever maltier bomb of balance. Whether your mug is beside a Thanksgiving gobbler or a holiday ham, let our bottled elixir join you and your family on its collision course of celebration. So, pull a cork and belly up to home – this hulk of a holiday hazer will settle any family retreat into a warming submission hold of mirth.
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Rated: 3.75 by teamwiggum from Wisconsin

Oct 26, 2020
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Reviewed by eppCOS from Colorado

3.96/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
2012 Quakerbridge, a bottle gifted by one of the co-owners of HA (thanks Maurizio!) back in 2013. Opened 6.27.20 and shared with wife and a friend who was in Chicago in 2013 as well with whom I taught for the semester.
L - Gorgeous mahogany brown, a little head left, good thick lacing as this went down.
S - Admittedly lost a LOT of the brown/fig fruit one might expect from this, but still aromas of ripe brown fruit, molasses, and a ton of honey on the nose.
T - So glad it survived, admittedly again with more tobacco, leather, honey, aged fig than anything else. Amazed it held up. Wow.
F - Great all the way to the bottom of the bottle, lots of good ol' fashioned gunky bits and stuff at the bottom .Hell yeah, don't filter it out.
O - A solid, non barrel aged barleywine, will have to return to HA some day to try it fresh on tap or at least fresh from the bottle.
Jun 27, 2020
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

4/5  rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From old, undated notes. Had this on draft.

Bright orange rust.

Minimal white head; nice lace.

Bright orange citrus nose; hints of caramel.

Medium thick mouthfeel.

Light grain, honey & mild caramel flavors; slight booze heat on the finish.

Easy to drink & enjoy.
Jul 30, 2019
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Reviewed by Hopheadjeffery from Illinois

3.88/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
Tasted in a Rastal Teku from a 22 fl oz bottle on April 13, 2019. An incarnation of a Half Acre favorite, Marty Stouffer’s Wild America barley wine. Malty and boozy.
Apr 16, 2019
 
Rated: 3.83 by Qbdoo from Illinois

Feb 24, 2018
 
Rated: 4.05 by wisrarebeer from Wisconsin

Apr 08, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by bcm75 from Illinois

Jan 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by JMFP from Delaware

Jan 16, 2016
 
Rated: 4.19 by dannycohen62 from Illinois

Jan 06, 2016
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Reviewed by infinitebruner from Arkansas

3.59/5  rDev -7.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
December 12, 2015

22 oz. bomber, snifter

A – Medium to dark amber, getting into copper, with very high clarity. A quarter-inch of light tan, large-bubbled foam rises and then ebbs quickly. Pours somewhat thin.

S – Resin and hop oil, sweet toffee and liquid caramel. A bit of wood and maybe some pine, but just a ton of syrupy sweetness takes over on the nose. Some apple and pear notes, perhaps alcohol esters, on the finish.

T – Apples and pears, some light pine, and red raisins, along with caramel and brown sugar. Sweet up front but a ton of hop bitterness that strengthens in the middle and on the finish.

M – Moderate-low carbonation with only a medium body, not particularly rich or heavy. A lot of sweet malt up front but bitterness is big, and lasts long into the finish. Aftertaste borders on unpleasant.

O – Overall pretty disappointing, though I’m hoping it will mellow out with some age in the bottle.
Dec 18, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by CityofWind_brew from Illinois

Dec 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by dandiprat2015 from Illinois

Dec 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.77 by orangesol from Pennsylvania

Dec 02, 2015
 
Rated: 4.42 by atone315 from Wisconsin

Dec 02, 2015
 
Rated: 4.06 by Sweffin from Wisconsin

Dec 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.09 by jeffrotell from Illinois

Nov 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4.1 by Will_Edgar from Iowa

Jul 13, 2015
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Rated by KevChiTown

4.22/5  rDev +8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Maybe not the best example of a Barleywine but whatever...I like it, pretty delicious! Fuck haters
Jun 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.81 by EdFed from Illinois

May 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.79 by puftdank from Illinois

Mar 19, 2015
Quakerbridge from Half Acre Beer Company
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 154 ratings