Top Of Main Series English-Style Barleywine Ale (Aged in Pinot Noir Barrels
Utah Brewers Cooperative
- From:
- Utah Brewers Cooperative
- Utah, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 10.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.05 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 21, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
4.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
12 oz can, no date, but canned in 2019, served in Prairie Rastal glass, a treat from Hinda65.
Pours a dusty rusty brown with a creamy beige cap of 1/2 finger, receding to a thin ring eventually.
Aroma of stiff molasses, caramel squares, grape candy, vanilla, more caramel, slight cocoa, and oak.
Flavor is a little acidic and empty to start, and then it fills itself out on the palate with vanilla, whiskey, charred oak, caramel, and a hint of molasses. The finish is grape candy or grape slushie, with caramel and smoked vanilla.
Feel is thin and cutting, almost paper thin in a way, with some flat carbonation but a lively alcohol burn that prickles and stings like carbonation would. Hot finish, drying, slightly sticky.
Overall, coming across more like a barrel aged scotch ale, this one was quite enjoyable. Wasatch always has work to do when it comes to their beers, but this one was more enjoyable than most. I was surprised to not get much pinot out of it and instead got grape candy, but it is enjoyable all the same.
Jun 21, 2020Pours a dusty rusty brown with a creamy beige cap of 1/2 finger, receding to a thin ring eventually.
Aroma of stiff molasses, caramel squares, grape candy, vanilla, more caramel, slight cocoa, and oak.
Flavor is a little acidic and empty to start, and then it fills itself out on the palate with vanilla, whiskey, charred oak, caramel, and a hint of molasses. The finish is grape candy or grape slushie, with caramel and smoked vanilla.
Feel is thin and cutting, almost paper thin in a way, with some flat carbonation but a lively alcohol burn that prickles and stings like carbonation would. Hot finish, drying, slightly sticky.
Overall, coming across more like a barrel aged scotch ale, this one was quite enjoyable. Wasatch always has work to do when it comes to their beers, but this one was more enjoyable than most. I was surprised to not get much pinot out of it and instead got grape candy, but it is enjoyable all the same.
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