18th Anniversary Barleywine
Fort George Brewery + Public House
- From:
- Fort George Brewery + Public House
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 25, 2025
- Added:
- Apr 14, 2025
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March 2025 marks our 18th year in beer. We are finally old enough to get a tattoo and Dad can’t say no because we’re an adult now.
18th Anniversary Barleywine is an English Style Barleywine aged for 18 months in Westward Whiskey barrels – a month for every year we’ve been the best.
18th Anniversary Barleywine is an English Style Barleywine aged for 18 months in Westward Whiskey barrels – a month for every year we’ve been the best.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by vurt from Oregon
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500 mL bottle purchased at the Lovell Store at Fort George Brewery and Public House in Astoria, OR. No date stamp, but the label bears a tab that reads "2025." Poured in stages into a small snifter.
Look:
Clear burnt orange body with bright orange highlights. The loose but clingy head of sticky tan foam shows low retention and leaves a few tendrils of lace behind.
Smell:
Quite sweet. Mostly brown sugar and muddled fruit: orange peel, plums, prunes. Some oxidation and toasted grain character. Sweet bourbon in the background.
Taste:
The first impression is a too-sweet imperial ESB aged in a bourbon barrel. Starts with light brown sugar sweetness tempered with bitter orange marmalade. A little prune and raisin emerges as the beer warms, along with a bit of toffee that provides roundness and much-needed depth. Further warming yields spicier notes of cloves and anise. Earthy bitterness pops up in the middle, supported by sweet bourbon. The finish shows flavors of dates, sweet port wine, and bourbon. A quick snap of tannic astringency bites through lingering brown sugar flavors.
Feel:
Medium-bodied with a slightly syrupy texture and a slow swell of great alcohol warmth like a rising mass of stratocumulus clouds.
Overall:
This is a very sweet beer which starts off rather two-dimensional but improves the longer you let it warm up. There is a point of diminishing returns, though. It's just too sweet. The rich fruitiness and emerging spices never gather enough punch to offset the sweetness. Even the bourbon seems cloying.
May 25, 2025Look:
Clear burnt orange body with bright orange highlights. The loose but clingy head of sticky tan foam shows low retention and leaves a few tendrils of lace behind.
Smell:
Quite sweet. Mostly brown sugar and muddled fruit: orange peel, plums, prunes. Some oxidation and toasted grain character. Sweet bourbon in the background.
Taste:
The first impression is a too-sweet imperial ESB aged in a bourbon barrel. Starts with light brown sugar sweetness tempered with bitter orange marmalade. A little prune and raisin emerges as the beer warms, along with a bit of toffee that provides roundness and much-needed depth. Further warming yields spicier notes of cloves and anise. Earthy bitterness pops up in the middle, supported by sweet bourbon. The finish shows flavors of dates, sweet port wine, and bourbon. A quick snap of tannic astringency bites through lingering brown sugar flavors.
Feel:
Medium-bodied with a slightly syrupy texture and a slow swell of great alcohol warmth like a rising mass of stratocumulus clouds.
Overall:
This is a very sweet beer which starts off rather two-dimensional but improves the longer you let it warm up. There is a point of diminishing returns, though. It's just too sweet. The rich fruitiness and emerging spices never gather enough punch to offset the sweetness. Even the bourbon seems cloying.
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