Kill The King
Anchorage Brewing Company

 

Pours a dense dark brown colour. Good thing I had this one in the dark(Arakawa river at night) because when lighting it up with my phone I could see so many bits floating at the top in an oil slick, and even more just hanging our floating inside.

Smell on the other hand, is top of class. Potent coconut perfectly balanced by rich bourbon vanilla, oak, chocolate, and dark fruit.

Taste is the same, decently sweet, and no bitterness around.

Feel is rich smooth, slightly hot putting down from a 4.75.

Excellent beer, maybe not quite worth £50, but it does make me consider getting adwtd if I can.

 

 

Pours deep black. Aroma is wonderful combo of molasses, vanilla, bourbon, oakiness with hints of booziness, caramel, vanilla, dark fruit, chocolate and hints of coconut. Mouthfeel is medium and perfectedly matched.

 

the wax is a bit much, but the coconut is good..... a little sweet for me, but delicious. thick. candy bar. aint worth the money it sold for, though, in any way....

Black barleywine indeed, looks like a sludgey stout. Smell is laced with bourbon, oak, vanilla, coconut, and molasses, with supporting caramel, barley, faint char, and raisin. Taste is sweeter with molasses leading the toasted caramel, raisin, and coconut then an earthy and barley wave backed by oak comes smoothly over before finished by vanillins, more coconut, bittersweet chocolate, bourbon and artful rye. Feels warm with booze, heavy and thick but silky smooth. Less sweetness would elevate an already great ale

 

 

Boozy. Sweet. Great blend of stout and Barleywine, as characteristics of both assert themselves strongly. Coconut is present in extreme, super sweet. Big barrel notes, strong alcohol on the feel. Slightly syrupy. Great beer.

 

Wow. This is one of the last Anchorage brews I have in my collection, as I haven't purchased many at all recently from Tavour.

Appearance is as usual.

Nose is huge on the bourbon. This is the most bourbon forward Anchorage stout I've had. Bourbon, oak, coconut, chocolate, ethanol, roasted malt. The ethanol comes jumping out of the glass, but not in an abrasive manner, if that makes any sense. Coconut dominates on the nose. That tropical fruity richness that coconut has in great quantities.

Taste is very much a carbon copy of the nose. Bourbon and oak up front, followed quickly by a chocolate coconut mixture that emanates a dessert quality. The booziness of this brew is apparent on the palate which is why it took me two hours to drink it. Towards the end, letting the ethanol evaporate, it mellowed out considerably and for the better. At the 1 and half hour mark it became accomodating rather than aggressive.

Mouthfeel is like all of the others. Thick, viscous, dense, coating, enveloping, silky.

Overall this was a fantastic Anchorage brew. Reminiscent of Blessed, but with more power behind the barrel aging. It has less nuance, but more focus and energy. I didn't get much of a Black Barleywine in here. It just seemed like an Imperial Stout through and through. But even Anchorage Barleywines are dark enough and rich enough to come close to stout territory.

I drank this while reading the ending of Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and The Nightmare Painter.

"I am the one that nightmares fear, she said, imagining them. Knowing them for what they were.

And you shall bow to me."

poured from a white-waxed 375mL bottle into a perennial snifter. pours a dark brown but gathers in the glass a shiny black with a crackling and fizzing dark brown foam cap that fades away into nothing but coconut floaties on top of the thick black liquid. big oak whiskey barrel as well as toasted coconut and chocolate. as it warms it’s just a ton of barrel including earthy tobacco and char. taste follows with some dark fruits in the mix. lots of oak and whiskey in there too. it damn near drinks like a barrel-aged coconut imperial stout except the ‘black barleywine’ component lends it some dark fruit flavors, which tend to keep the sweetness in check. also, again, a ton of barrel presence which again, helps to keep the sweetness in check. thick, full mouthfeel with an oily, coconut slick finish. really good stuff.