B.O.B. 2.5 (Big Old Barleywine)
El Segundo Brewing Company
- From:
- El Segundo Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 15.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.5 | pDev: 2.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Added:
- Jan 17, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Small steps can have great magnitude. Just ask Neil Armstrong. Instead of packaging all of B.O.B. 2, we decided to hold onto a few casks and let them rest for 18 months.... you know, just to see what happens in the name of science. Turns out letting it sit longer results in a bolder expression with a gravitational pull as strong as two and a half Bob's! That's one half step for B.O.B. 2, one giant leap for B.O.B. 2.5.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Blogjackets from Ohio
4.34/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a pint can, the beer is a dark brown with a wee tan head and not much lacing.
Aroma is rye barrel and dark fruits (fig, raisin). Inviting.
Taste follows nose with flavors ratcheted up. Heavy barrel on swallow (sipping is better) is balanced by a heavy sweet malt and the dark fruits mentioned earlier. The barrel is boozy but not overly hot. No sign of hops though expected by style designation.
Mouthfeel is good with light carbonation. The barleywine approaches cloying but doesn't quite get there. Things dry up fairly quickly with only a bit a lingering booze.
A lively delicious barleywine.
Sep 15, 2024Aroma is rye barrel and dark fruits (fig, raisin). Inviting.
Taste follows nose with flavors ratcheted up. Heavy barrel on swallow (sipping is better) is balanced by a heavy sweet malt and the dark fruits mentioned earlier. The barrel is boozy but not overly hot. No sign of hops though expected by style designation.
Mouthfeel is good with light carbonation. The barleywine approaches cloying but doesn't quite get there. Things dry up fairly quickly with only a bit a lingering booze.
A lively delicious barleywine.
Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
4.48/5 rDev -0.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.48/5 rDev -0.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Sampling a 2022 can of this collab with Horus. Date stamp is 10/04/2022. Pouring at cellar temp into my trusty snifter.
The beer pours a clear mahogany color and reveals garnet highlights in front of a light source. A fizzy , bubbly beige head of .5 cm foams up and is gone almost immediately after the pour.
Only tiny wispy islands remain in center of my glass.
Aroma is deep malts with brown sugar, raisins, some charred wood and molasses and a bit of sweet whiskey. Definitely a little fusol booziness in the nose too. Hops absent.
First sip reveals a fairly thick texture and a little stickiness. Very fine and prickly carbonation that is pretty sharp on my tongue. The beer does coat my tongue on each sip too and there is definitely some warmth in here.
Flavor is sweet brown sugar, some molasses and a good bit of whiskey. Some raisin buried and hints of toffee too. dont get any real wooden notes and hops are totally absent again.
But I do get warming booze all the way down my gullet with each sip. Woo this one is gonna take a bit to empty!
Really enjoy this big bruiser of a barleywine!
Oct 27, 2023The beer pours a clear mahogany color and reveals garnet highlights in front of a light source. A fizzy , bubbly beige head of .5 cm foams up and is gone almost immediately after the pour.
Only tiny wispy islands remain in center of my glass.
Aroma is deep malts with brown sugar, raisins, some charred wood and molasses and a bit of sweet whiskey. Definitely a little fusol booziness in the nose too. Hops absent.
First sip reveals a fairly thick texture and a little stickiness. Very fine and prickly carbonation that is pretty sharp on my tongue. The beer does coat my tongue on each sip too and there is definitely some warmth in here.
Flavor is sweet brown sugar, some molasses and a good bit of whiskey. Some raisin buried and hints of toffee too. dont get any real wooden notes and hops are totally absent again.
But I do get warming booze all the way down my gullet with each sip. Woo this one is gonna take a bit to empty!
Really enjoy this big bruiser of a barleywine!
Reviewed by evanwoertz from California
4.7/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.7/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
a bit smokey, a touch of butterscotch, super complicated and very rich. super heavy. smells really boozy. feel has a little caramel and taste is exactly right - just a little bit floral, very sweet and smooth.
Jan 17, 2023
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