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Voodoo Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

This one pours a dark golden brown color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like a caramel apple wrapped up in a toasty oak blanket – just so aromatic and wonderful.

This is delicious, and the best Voodoo barleywine since the original K13. There’s not too sweet apple tones from the barrel, with sticky caramel, spicy oak, dark fruit, toffee, cinnamon, and some milk chocolate.

This is super smooth and clean tasting, with very little outright booziness. There’s some heat in the chest, but it’s not prickly at all.

This is as good as it gets for apple brandy barrels and barleywines, really. It’s one of the best beers Voodoo has dreamt up in a while now.

poured from a 22oz bomber into a TG DBA glass. pours a very dark brown with hardly any foam at all. caramel apples, oak, toffee, spirit barrel and dark fruits all on the nose and taste. taste has a little more milk chocolate to it and as it warms and opens up the apple brandy barrel really stands out (in a good way). thick, full mouthfeel that’s perfectly carbed. it’s sticky and coats the mouth from start to finish. this was exceptional. i’m assuming we’ll see this base barleywine again in different barrel treatments but apple brandy barrels was an awesome way to kick off this brand. a wonderful compliment to a very toffee and caramel forward barleywine where the malt takes the lead and the hops stay in the background.

 

Mahogany black to dark brown with nary a head on the syrupy surface.

While noticably lighter in body than their previous excellent barleywine Continuum, this hits much deeper, richer notes than their K13 days of old, and the barrel is far better integrated than the doppelbock of similar treatment they did some time ago.

Caramels and butterscotches ribbon off the medium chars that exhale some vanillin and cinnamon apple fritter along with a mild warmth. Developing more spice as it warms, as well as more mature, toasted splinters of oak, the complexity here is right up my alley. The nose exhibits more of the brighter apple qualities than the palate does, which I'm grateful for.

The medium-light body has a crisp carbonation that expands a little to lift a warming tingle before the lightly sticky, semi-dry finish.

I'm glad to see these coming back on draft during releases, and even happier to be a part of it!

Very good. Very, very good. Not among the absolute best barlewyines I've had but a really well executed beer. Only gripe is the feel is too fizzy/prickly for my taste.


The pour is dark and ominous - a common trait of better barleywines I've had. You can smell the AB among the classic english barleyine aromas.
Flavors smack you sweet in the face with loads of caramel and toffee. The apple brandy is not shy and comes out more and more as it warms. Feel as mentioned above is too fizzy for me. I like low carbonation on my barleywine. I suppose it has lots to lose if you chose to cellar for a while. Truthfully, this is probably one of the best candidates of a beer to hope to cellar successfully. Its loaded with high notes of various flavors that aren't quite melded to one. Cellaring is a crapshoot but this is one definitely worth a try. Lucky for me I have two bottles left as I scored this on draft at pickup.

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Above review was on draft. Drinking again this time a pour from bomber on 1-9-23 vs review date.

I contest my assertion of it being overly carbonated. I do stand by that it is high carbonation. But at the cellar temperature that I'm drinking this one at it's really quite perfectly carb'd.

Again assert that this beer is LOADED with a vast array of flavors - all very, very pleasant, but not necessarily melded into one congruent. I'd posit that in a few years this really melds and will be reflected on as one of voodoos better beers.