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Tørst Front Room V.2
Evil Twin Brewing
- From:
- Evil Twin Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 7.67%
- Reviews:
- 7
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 20, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 29, 2014
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 5
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.85/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
good not great, i like the yeast in this, but the base barleywine isnt particularly exciting, and the red wine aspect is really minimal, i assume perhaps this has faded some over time, based on some really favorable reviews here, but it really didnt take me where i wanted to go with it. a sweet and bitter palate here, toasted long boiled grain, brown sugar and a bready almost cakey yeast element, i like that lingering here. the bitterness is odd, seems hop derived but i hardly taste any hops at all, just have their residual bitterness. some oak here, vanilla and light spiciness from it, also nice with the yeast, but very little red wine. if i try hard enough i can get some raisin and maybe dried berries, but i was looking for a much richer and fuller red wine complexion here. i will assume its faded two years in the bottle, since others seem to get a lot more of it. a slight acidic creep, caramel, and breakfast cereals at the end, plenty of sugar leftover, and honestly sort of blah overall. i has much higher hopes for this, not all barleywine types are meant for the cellar apparently...
Dec 06, 2017Reviewed by Brutaltruth from Ohio
4.34/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A shout from the roof tops----best barely wine I have had in ages!
This sturdy beast pours a murky brown with outlines of orange and a quickly dissipating head that dies down flat with no lacing and a slight ring (as a heavy duty barely wine should). Nose of ripe peaches, cherries, boozy brandy, and brown sugars. Flavors exceed the nose with wine touched brandy on the front, raisins and peaches slide into the middle, light oak and vanilla float onto the sides, and toffee and cherries make a strong showing on the back. Nice touches of oak and wine form a warming finish with slick and coating minimal carbonation and a dry finish. English in flavor and reminiscent of some of the aged Thomas Hardy ales I have tried. Outstanding. WISH I could have more. An excellent adventure in taste. I have been waiting for a find this good. The newest WOW beer I have had. Rich, decadent, and almost....dare I say....EVIL.
Cheers
May 06, 2016This sturdy beast pours a murky brown with outlines of orange and a quickly dissipating head that dies down flat with no lacing and a slight ring (as a heavy duty barely wine should). Nose of ripe peaches, cherries, boozy brandy, and brown sugars. Flavors exceed the nose with wine touched brandy on the front, raisins and peaches slide into the middle, light oak and vanilla float onto the sides, and toffee and cherries make a strong showing on the back. Nice touches of oak and wine form a warming finish with slick and coating minimal carbonation and a dry finish. English in flavor and reminiscent of some of the aged Thomas Hardy ales I have tried. Outstanding. WISH I could have more. An excellent adventure in taste. I have been waiting for a find this good. The newest WOW beer I have had. Rich, decadent, and almost....dare I say....EVIL.
Cheers
Reviewed by darktronica from Indiana
4.04/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Served at cellar temperature on a cold night. Pours a deep, dark reddish-brown with virtually no head, only a mild bubbling that quickly coalesces on the side of the glass. Smells of a rum-soaked bread pudding with raisins as the primary bread accoutrement: yeasty, sweet, and boozy. Tastes like caramelized red wine--grapes, plums, turbinado sugar, and bitter tannins. Also an undertone of oxidized wood pulp, making me glad I cracked this bottle tonight, instead of letting it age a few more years. I wish I had a fresh bottle for comparison.
If one is so inclined, this would be the perfect beer to hang Christmas stockings to. If Evil Twin released a candle version of this beer, I would buy it, despite it invariably being overpriced. And then I would light the hell out of it.
Nov 14, 2015If one is so inclined, this would be the perfect beer to hang Christmas stockings to. If Evil Twin released a candle version of this beer, I would buy it, despite it invariably being overpriced. And then I would light the hell out of it.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.31/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Breaming with decadence, Evil Twin's second rendition of Torst Front Room emerges from wine barrels this time for a vinous, drying and slender tartness to balance the lavish sweetness of the British-style Barleywine within.
Volume 2 pours with a brilliant garnet and mahogany austere with low lying trickles of lace. As an eventual collar of foam encircles the rim, a gentle swirl reveals the classic brandy-like legging for which these ales are known. The appetizing fragrance of port and madiera are followed by the cakey goodness of deeply caramelized malt and mature stone fruit. And once the taste slathers across the tongue, the senses awaken with molasses, brown sugar, maple and butter pecan.
And those succulent sweetnesses never let up as waves of sweetness wash over the middle palate, saturating the tastebuds with utter decadence. Those molasses and maple flavors take on the aged esters of date, raisin, fig, prune, cherry and apple for a taste and texture that seems of fruitcake. With the refined elegance of fresh tobacco, booze-soaken oak and a merlot-like vinous tang, the ale also closes with the broad and woodsy bitterness of noble English hops for a faint semblance of balance.
Long, savory and posh, the ale's full, chewy and syrupy body renders it to a slow sipping affair rather than anything known as refreshing, crisp or clean. Like a fine port wine or sherry, the infinite layers of culinary art is to reward the imbiber with its true culinary delight. Its depth of flavors linger indefinitely with simmering boozy warmth and the residual sweetness to easily replace any dessert.
Oct 14, 2015Volume 2 pours with a brilliant garnet and mahogany austere with low lying trickles of lace. As an eventual collar of foam encircles the rim, a gentle swirl reveals the classic brandy-like legging for which these ales are known. The appetizing fragrance of port and madiera are followed by the cakey goodness of deeply caramelized malt and mature stone fruit. And once the taste slathers across the tongue, the senses awaken with molasses, brown sugar, maple and butter pecan.
And those succulent sweetnesses never let up as waves of sweetness wash over the middle palate, saturating the tastebuds with utter decadence. Those molasses and maple flavors take on the aged esters of date, raisin, fig, prune, cherry and apple for a taste and texture that seems of fruitcake. With the refined elegance of fresh tobacco, booze-soaken oak and a merlot-like vinous tang, the ale also closes with the broad and woodsy bitterness of noble English hops for a faint semblance of balance.
Long, savory and posh, the ale's full, chewy and syrupy body renders it to a slow sipping affair rather than anything known as refreshing, crisp or clean. Like a fine port wine or sherry, the infinite layers of culinary art is to reward the imbiber with its true culinary delight. Its depth of flavors linger indefinitely with simmering boozy warmth and the residual sweetness to easily replace any dessert.
Reviewed by ThickNStout from Georgia
4.22/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
11.2oz bottle from Green's(Atlanta, GA). 9.99. No apparent bottling date. Served in a Toppling Goliath teku.
Pours a deep, opaque chestnut brown with a small collection of bubbles that really can't be called head. Those few bubbles persist stubbornly, even going so far as to leave a few small dots of lace.
Sweet and earthy aromas of wet oak, wine, toffee, caramel and a mild vegital note.
Rich flavors of toffee, oaken vanilla, wine, caramel, a mild floral bitterness, some brown sugar and a an occasional nip of booze. Maybe it's from the time spent in barrels but this seems more like a English than American barleywine. The alcohol is dangerously imperceptible. Tasty stuff for sure.
Syrupy, medium full body with almost no carbonation. Sweet, lingering finish of toffee, white wine, oak and brown sugar.
Tørst Front Room V.2 is more great work from Evil Twin. Rich and sweet with very little bitterness, the time in wine barrels seems to have converted this into a solid English barleywine. I'm glad I picked it up to try.
May 18, 2015Pours a deep, opaque chestnut brown with a small collection of bubbles that really can't be called head. Those few bubbles persist stubbornly, even going so far as to leave a few small dots of lace.
Sweet and earthy aromas of wet oak, wine, toffee, caramel and a mild vegital note.
Rich flavors of toffee, oaken vanilla, wine, caramel, a mild floral bitterness, some brown sugar and a an occasional nip of booze. Maybe it's from the time spent in barrels but this seems more like a English than American barleywine. The alcohol is dangerously imperceptible. Tasty stuff for sure.
Syrupy, medium full body with almost no carbonation. Sweet, lingering finish of toffee, white wine, oak and brown sugar.
Tørst Front Room V.2 is more great work from Evil Twin. Rich and sweet with very little bitterness, the time in wine barrels seems to have converted this into a solid English barleywine. I'm glad I picked it up to try.
Reviewed by zac16125 from South Carolina
3.93/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.93/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
330mL bottle into a tulip
no bottling dates
A: Pours a murky dark mahogany, opaque with essentially no head. Looks under carbed. Leaves no lacing. 3.25
S: A good amount of sweetness; caramel/toffee, candied sugar, dark fruits like dates, booze. Barrel notes are noticeable with vinous characters and oak, but aren’t particularly strong. 4
T: Tons of sweetness with huge notes of fig and dates. Lots of caramel and toffee notes as well. Subtle cocoa. Like the nose the barrel notes are noticeable but aren’t particularly strong. This is an excellent tasting beer though, very well done. 4.25
M/D: Full bodied, essentially no carbonation which hurts its mouthfeel and drinkability. ABV is noticeable but in a good way. Drinkabiltiy is average. 3.25
O: Very tasty beer, but severely undercarbed bordering on flat, hurts it. Still quite enjoyable, but at $10 per 330mL bottle I expected more. 3.75
May 05, 2015no bottling dates
A: Pours a murky dark mahogany, opaque with essentially no head. Looks under carbed. Leaves no lacing. 3.25
S: A good amount of sweetness; caramel/toffee, candied sugar, dark fruits like dates, booze. Barrel notes are noticeable with vinous characters and oak, but aren’t particularly strong. 4
T: Tons of sweetness with huge notes of fig and dates. Lots of caramel and toffee notes as well. Subtle cocoa. Like the nose the barrel notes are noticeable but aren’t particularly strong. This is an excellent tasting beer though, very well done. 4.25
M/D: Full bodied, essentially no carbonation which hurts its mouthfeel and drinkability. ABV is noticeable but in a good way. Drinkabiltiy is average. 3.25
O: Very tasty beer, but severely undercarbed bordering on flat, hurts it. Still quite enjoyable, but at $10 per 330mL bottle I expected more. 3.75
Rated by mendvicdog from Maryland
3.02/5 rDev -25.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.02/5 rDev -25.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
sweet harsh alcohol. standard bw
Mar 30, 2015
Tørst Front Room V.2 from Evil Twin Brewing
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
33 ratings
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