Dave's Barrel-Aged Barleywine
Angry Chair Brewing

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From:
Angry Chair Brewing
 
Florida, United States
Style:
English Barleywine
Ranked #8
ABV:
10%
Score:
99
Ranked #283
Avg:
4.53 | pDev: 5.96%
Reviews:
17
Ratings:
74
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 27, 2024
Added:
Jun 08, 2015
Wants:
  33
Gots:
  7
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Ratings by earljones199:
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Rated by earljones199 from New Hampshire

4.43/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Mar 08, 2017
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida

3.9/5  rDev -13.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured a brown body with one-finger khaki head that slowly died. Aroma is like booze, plums and vanilla. Slightly creamy, fuller body with a vanilla sweetness slightly overpowering a dark fruit flavor like figs and raisins, but it seems to work with a woody smoothness and booze is well-hidden so an interesting sipper.
Jan 27, 2024
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Rated by Sandis from Minnesota

4.27/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2019 version poured from a 750ml bottle into a snifter. Nice lightly sweet toffee.
Nov 04, 2023
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Reviewed by SpeedwayJim from New York

4.25/5  rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
750ml capped bottle into a BBT snifter.

No head, no leave, pours a dark mahogany. Thick, oily, almost filmy legs. Nose is sweet soy sauce, blackstrap molasses, brown sugar, and booze. A bit of coarse nuttiness. Very aromatic but a touch abrasive. Beer opens brown sugar, molasses, and anise. Nutmeg, sweet soy sauce, more molasses, and more barrel in the middle. Tobacco, a touch of cocoa, and coarse brown sugar at the end. Syrup in the finish. Body is full with low carbonation. Slick and rich on the palate and oily and full going down. Long, lingering, filmy aftertaste.

Nice overall but this one's going a bit downhill at this point. Some rough edges starting to show.
Jul 29, 2023
 
Rated: 4.49 by KT123 from Pennsylvania

Jul 02, 2023
 
Rated: 4.53 by loganburgh from Michigan

Jan 27, 2023
 
Rated: 3.7 by chitownfanatic21 from Wyoming

Aug 17, 2022
 
Rated: 4.5 by Virby44 from Wisconsin

Aug 10, 2022
 
Rated: 4.59 by Scottsbeer from Florida

Aug 07, 2022
 
Rated: 4.3 by kreg02 from Illinois

Aug 04, 2022
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Rated by unclekeith from Alaska

4.43/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
2/3/18 from Untappd
Jul 22, 2022
 
Rated: 4.67 by not2quick from Missouri

Jul 21, 2022
 
Rated: 4.5 by Narthax from Texas

Jul 21, 2022
 
Rated: 4.5 by Dharms from Pennsylvania

Jul 19, 2022
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Reviewed by JohnnyHopps from Indiana

4.6/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Appearance - The beer poured a murky brown color with a white head crowning the pour.

Smell - This beer smelled sweet, almost like freshly picked berries. The barrel aging was also noted.

Taste - It was as though I were drinking maraschino cherries without having to ingest the toxic red color. There was a bit of tartness to cherries, with the bourbon being light. The barley was closed to being chewy as it left a nice bready backbone.

Mouthfeel - The feel was almost chewy with breadiness.

Overall - This is a fantastic barleywine.
Jan 16, 2022
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Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota

4.25/5  rDev -6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Thanks to the fine johnyb & Freezing_Balls for 750 ML bottles of this fine-looking ale (mostly because I forgot about one of them, but hey, that’s OK!).

The pour spills out dark brown with an almost immediate cessation of all things bubble. I can’t comment on the nose because I start sucking it down pronto.

Dave’s Barrel Aged Barleywine dances in the mouth like it’s never heard Somebody to Shove before. Excellent toffee/caramel is barreled over by the bourbon forming a lovely base. Mid-palate brings those things almost lost in the shoving: maple syrup, raisin (which mars it a bit for me). The mouthfeel is thin, the only knock I can discover, but it amps up the drinkability.

Not legendary but an excellent barleywine. Already looking forward to the second.
Nov 09, 2021
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

3.44/5  rDev -24.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bourbon barrel version. Shared bottle at regional tasting. Dark brown colour. Bourbon and molasses in the aroma. Rich and sweet flavour, bourbon and oak galore. Good, but maybe too much of the good stuff?
Aug 19, 2021
 
Rated: 4.59 by NolaHopHead from Louisiana

Jun 28, 2021
 
Rated: 4.82 by eawolff99 from Minnesota

Jun 22, 2021
 
Rated: 4.33 by kramacam from Kentucky

May 28, 2021
Dave's Barrel-Aged Barleywine from Angry Chair Brewing
Beer rating: 99 out of 100 with 74 ratings