Code Blue
Pacific Coast Brewing Company

 

On tap at the brewery.

Chalice pour and I view a dirty brown ale with burgundy highlights throughout. The colors mesh very well together. Sweet candy aroma with some dark fruits in the mix. Malty taste with hints of plum. Slightly hoppy. Very full bodied. Almost chewy. Easy drink for a Barleywine and took me by surprise. Very drinkable though sipping tends to follow as more is consumed. Wish I could find this other than the brewery though this is worth searching out. Good stuff.

Source/Serving: Draft

Smell: Oaked dark cherries, grass/floral hops, a little red wine, barely perceptible spiciness.

Taste: Alcohol dryness is prominent, a little too overpowering. Well balanced grassiness but only faint ripe cherry notes. Bitterness starts getting astringent as it warms. Limited drinkability. Finish is boozy and dry, grassy, and a little oaky.

On tap at the brewpub pouring up clear deep copper with thin white head. The aroma is sweet with plums, raisins and some maltiness in the background. The taste begins with a pulse of roasty malts and then moving toward prunes, plums and raisins. It stays pretty dark and fruity into the finish providing a smooth experience. This one should only improve with some more cellar time.

Thank you again Ratman, for the opportunity to taste a memory. I remember trips to Pacific Coast back in the late nineties, but this is the first time in years I have seen a bottle from the brewery. A few years old, the bottle pours a somewhat hazy dark brown color. Dark fruits, caramel and oxidation on the nose, and not much different taste-wise. Memory says this was a pretty decent beer, and I think memory is probably correct.

Poured a deep mahogany color. Smelled of ddep malts a big load of hops, sticky sweet sugar and taste was much like it. Very mature and rich. Nice malt and hop character, well balanced and a treat to drink. I wish I could have had more of this wonder.

'99 vintage. A still dark brown ale that poured still. The nose was powerful and pleasant. Wow what a taste! Great flavors of malt, alcohol, malt and a citrus hop bitterness. What makes this beer stand out is its rich, thickness forcing the bubbles to fight to the surface. This is my last bottle of this vintage. Too bad.