Maiden 2020
Siren Craft Brew
- From:
- Siren Craft Brew
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 9.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 25, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 18, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.33/5 rDev -9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.33/5 rDev -9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Very deep chestnut red. Pours with a tiny bit of haze and a 2mm pale-tan foam cap that dissipates to a 1mm ring and patch.
S- Well it's liquor barrel aged! I'm not good at IDing the smell of liquors but this seems more brandy than say whisky.
T- Woah man, scratch the above, that's surely a mega-whisky note. It's pungent yet rounded and smooth.
F- Liquor'ish, quite rich but not quite straying into sweet.
O- You need to tolerate/+ liquor as that is front/centre and the main thing going on here. In fact arguably that is so prominent that little else gets a look in - as you'll have noticed^. Is this good, bad or just one of those things Siren does well for that style - you decide.
A style made for slow-sippin' for me. Likely works better in winter than summer. In conclusion the barrel aging over-dominates, this beer isn't very beer-like, it tastes mostly of whisky and has a couple of beer like aspects; colour and carbonation. As always interesting to try, but darn these beers are $$ so not one I expect to buy again.
Review1946/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the lables to see what I missed! ==> Incredibly exotic lable design with a glittering gold/black/white tactile print lable applied to what could be a half champagne bottle. 'Barrel aged barley wine'. Barrel type not listed.
375ml bottled 09/02/2021 £9.75 Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
Jul 08, 2021L- Very deep chestnut red. Pours with a tiny bit of haze and a 2mm pale-tan foam cap that dissipates to a 1mm ring and patch.
S- Well it's liquor barrel aged! I'm not good at IDing the smell of liquors but this seems more brandy than say whisky.
T- Woah man, scratch the above, that's surely a mega-whisky note. It's pungent yet rounded and smooth.
F- Liquor'ish, quite rich but not quite straying into sweet.
O- You need to tolerate/+ liquor as that is front/centre and the main thing going on here. In fact arguably that is so prominent that little else gets a look in - as you'll have noticed^. Is this good, bad or just one of those things Siren does well for that style - you decide.
A style made for slow-sippin' for me. Likely works better in winter than summer. In conclusion the barrel aging over-dominates, this beer isn't very beer-like, it tastes mostly of whisky and has a couple of beer like aspects; colour and carbonation. As always interesting to try, but darn these beers are $$ so not one I expect to buy again.
Review1946/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the lables to see what I missed! ==> Incredibly exotic lable design with a glittering gold/black/white tactile print lable applied to what could be a half champagne bottle. 'Barrel aged barley wine'. Barrel type not listed.
375ml bottled 09/02/2021 £9.75 Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
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