Third Coast Old Ale | Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store

4.18/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.25/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

3.83/5  rDev -6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

3.56/5  rDev -13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

I have a 2015 edition that has been in my basement. As of 2018, it has really mellowed out. I remember more of a raisin profile before. It is very tasty with good legs and fig -like sweetness. I can just tell this is a higher ABV than average but no burn going down.

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3.54/5  rDev -13.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

3.5/5  rDev -14.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

High B- / WORTHY

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4.5/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.18/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Plenty of smooth caramel flavor with the dried fruit undertones as advertised in the description. There’s light fig and banana. Tasty stuff and I repeat each sip in quick succession for more. Hops tingle in the mix. It’s a sweet one, but this is a barleywine through and through. This does seem like one of the few that would show new benefits with some age.

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4.09/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Wonderful color, almost syrupy, but with a meager foamy head with no lace. A woody, sour nose with a lot of malt. Heavy on the malts on first taste. Sweet, savory, and almost like chewing on cedar. This beer is nuts. So much flavor, utterly distinct, boozy, with a delicious finish.

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4.23/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

4.15/5  rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

A-Beer pours a dark amber color with a slight head and lacing
A-Aroma has fruity and boozy hints
T-Taste follows the nose with a fruity and boozy flavor
M-A medium bodied beer with generous carbonation
O-A good barleywine

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3.75/5  rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

4.44/5  rDev +8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

3.79/5  rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

4.16/5  rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

4.15/5  rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

North coast 2015 Old Ale. Pours a color somewhere between mahagony and ruby, half finger of tan head, mostly fine bubbles. The head does not dissipate.
Nose is cedar, red apple, something like allspice. There is a sweet note at the back, it reminds me of vanilla but writing it off like that doesn't do it justice. As it warms I get more red wine notes.
Taste is raisin, bitter cinnamon, light notes of apple and orange, woody finish. Winey notes again as it warms.
Mouthfeel is full, soft carb, finishing dry.
This beer is really complex and just as enjoyable. Broadly speaking it checks all boxes of a good barleywine, though there are some other notes that make it stand out. I don't believe I've had it fresh but now its time to seek it out

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4.25/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25

i've had an itch for some barleywine and finally stumbled across these. two in my hands, one for god knows when and this one becoming my poor decision for the night at 2 months old. dumped into a tulip a deep reddish brown, a bit of a head came and went with little bits of lacing sticking firmly behind. nose keeps moving from sweet brown sugar and caramel to raisin to some earthy hop. bit of booze soaks the whole thing. taste is a slowly sweeter blend of toasted grains, dark fruits and brown sugar. bitter aftertaste that sort of sticks to your mouth. full bodied and sorta crisp at times. already really enjoy this and i'm excited to let it hang out until 2021 or so.

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4.02/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Poured from a 12 ounce bottled on 10/11/2017 into a DFH tulip. Small head over a cherry mahogany body which dissipated quickly with little lacing. Smell got much more pronounced as it warmed up since I started this in a very cold attic before moving to a warmer setting. Smell was of nicely sweet fruit with a slight, not overpowering, booze tinge. Taste was more hoppy than the smell but it in no way detracted from the sweet flavors. Absolutely no alcohol burn. Mouthfeel was fine albeit slightly thin.

Overall this was a bit of a letdown because my hopes maybe were higher than was reasonable. Then again, maybe additional aging will get this to the point I wanted it to be since this is still young. Will revisit this in a year.

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4.25/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a Dogfish Head tulip

L: Clouded caramel brown pour with 1 finger of foamy white head. Great sticky lacing.

S: Dark sugars and toasted malts... caramel and sweets.

T/F: Follows the nose. Rich toasted grains/malts and brown sugar. Molasses, caramel, and raisin. Dark fruits like plum in the background. Sweet up front with some hopping for bitterness and balance. Very mild spice. Medium to thick bodied... leaves a sticky coating on the tongue. More sugar and fruit at the finish.

O: A pretty outstanding barleywine. Well balanced and dangerously drinkable at over 10% ABV. Curious to see how this'll taste after a year or 2 in the cellar.

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4.37/5  rDev +6.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

I was totally surprised, and upset at the same time to see someone else had the same idea I had...and it was to age this beer, and that is exactally what "HopsAreDaMan" did !!! Kudos to you brother...you are Da Man !!! We were right in doing this !!!
I myself did not aged as long...I started with a 10/03/15 Third Coast, but still the same results.
I found the aged old beer was by far the best, and more complex of the two "new vs. old, and cant wait to do this again...now that I now it works for the best on this beer.
What else can I say...other than try this beer in the CELLAR for sure!!!!
Way to go again, fellow cellarer. Yahoo drink up & enjoy!!!!

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3.62/5  rDev -11.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Hmmm. Not so great. Very disappointing, and from what I’ve read it’s supposed to be better - and even more so with some aging (which I’ll have to do next time). Thinner tan-brown, almost honey color with some good head and a little spotty lingering lacing. Smells of yeast, dark fruit, a little malt and fruity hops. Tastes similarly, except the yeasty sweetness is very upfront. Just a little plum and raisin with brown sugar and caramel. Smooth mild mouthfeel, good carbonation. A decent beer but still disappointing to me.

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4.52/5  rDev +10%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.02/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.9/5  rDev +19.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5

3.71/5  rDev -9.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75