Samurai Barleywine Ale
Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery

Samurai Barleywine AleSamurai Barleywine Ale
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From:
Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery
 
Japan
Style:
American Barleywine
Ranked #155
ABV:
10%
Score:
87
Ranked #17,146
Avg:
3.86 | pDev: 9.59%
Reviews:
22
Ratings:
50
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 26, 2024
Added:
Dec 23, 2010
Wants:
  7
Gots:
  5
Utilizing double the usual amount of ingredients, an aged beer that is matured over the course of a full year. With a full-bodied taste and a strong malty sweetness, this has a well balanced, harmonious bitterness, with a complex intermingling of its strongly alcohol-infused ester aroma.
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Ratings by RochefortChris:
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Rated by RochefortChris from North Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +16.6%

Sep 09, 2014
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Reviewed by beergoot from Colorado

4.41/5  rDev +14.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours out a clear, golden color; dense, slow-rising carbonation; thick, frothy, long-lasting head; sticky rings and fingers of foam cling to the glass. Intense, pleasurable aroma of sweet grainy malts and spicy hop tones; a rich, fruity sweetness also punctuates the smell. Bold note of classic English-style barleywine; deep caramel elements with faint hints of ginger and cinnamon spiciness; molasses; rounded alcohol edge sleeping in the depths of the malt sweetness; honey. Heavy body; warm booziness cuts through the fairly dense residual sugars; sticky.

This Japanese barleywine is heady and bold in character and taste, boozy yet balanced, and a wonderful cold weather sipper while a wood fire burns in the background.

Pouring temperature: 53 °F; bottling info: n/a
Source: local purchase (Coaltrain Fine Wine, Craft Beer & Spirits)
Jan 26, 2024
 
Rated: 4.16 by WLS4190 from Georgia

Jan 25, 2022
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Reviewed by Brutaltruth from Ohio

4.25/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From the 12 oz bottle in a snifter via Savor Growl in Columbus.
This solid barely wine pours a lightly murky brown tinged amber with a
very nice head of off white foam that settles to a thin ring, thin light
layer, and displays some nice lacing. Nose of caramel, pear, grape,
pine, plum, and herbal hop notes. Flavors hit the note nicely
with pear, white grape, pine, caramel, light plum, and dashed with
herbal notes. Nice mouth feel; medium body, warming, smooth,
light carbonation, and a moderately dry finish.

Overall, a SOLID brew from a new to me brewery.

Cheers
Nov 28, 2020
 
Rated: 3.99 by vrbulldog22 from Ohio

Jun 06, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by paulish from New York

Sep 25, 2018
 
Rated: 4.19 by takusan1000 from Washington

Sep 19, 2018
 
Rated: 3.9 by DOCRW from Kentucky

Jul 21, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by mpenske from California

Sep 19, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by djrn2 from New Jersey

Mar 23, 2016
 
Rated: 4.39 by TGS from California

Jan 09, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by twelveinches from Washington

Dec 23, 2015
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.42/5  rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Barley wine bottle share on 1/31. Cloudy amber orange, moderate white head. malty sweet nose on this , some molasses and dates, lots of alcohol. Heavy , slightly sticky body, some honey, brown sugar, fruit. Plenty of alcohol warmth.
Dec 22, 2015
 
Rated: 3.9 by Rihup from Illinois

Aug 18, 2015
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Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota

4.25/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
L: A hazy amber pour supports a ½” cream colored oar collar. S: Malt and dark sugar aromas. T: Rich malts trigger a sweet start with a little caramel that develops more brown sugar notes by the finish. A fairly significant bitter hop accent provides some balance. F: Full bodied with medium low carbonation. Some grain based astringency on the finish. O: A somewhat sweet but interesting Barleywine.
Aug 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by Maillard from Ohio

Aug 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.8 by BMBCLT from South Carolina

Jul 10, 2015
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Reviewed by Matthew13 from Utah

4.19/5  rDev +8.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
It's listed as an English barley wine. It has the typical smell, look, feel and base of an English. The hops say an American barley wine. I am guessing it's a regional twist of the example. Interesting. Doesn't fit in either category, but it's tasty. I'd have another some day down the road.
Apr 05, 2015
 
Rated: 4.5 by Mike-Harms from California

Feb 15, 2015
 
Rated: 4.05 by BeerZombies1 from Nevada

Jan 06, 2015
Samurai Barleywine Ale from Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 50 ratings