Gimme the Munichwine
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

This one pours a golden dark brown color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.

This smells pretty nutty, almost like peanut brittle, with caramel, chocolate, and breadiness.

Munichwine tends to be delicious, but there’s always something unexplainably different to me about them. They are definitely more nutty, but there’s also a distinct breadiness that I rarely get in any other beer. There’s also the typical caramel and brown sugar, and a pleasantly oaky finish.

This is medium bodied, sticky but creamy, with not much booziness.

I think ultimately the Private Press versions of this style, the original versions that is, are better, but this is a fun take on

Sampling a cellar temp 500 ml bottle poured into my snifter. The beer was picked up at the brewery in October 2022 and has been in my cellar since. Bottled date is 5/25/2022.
The beer pours a bright caramel color with a dense creamy beige head of 1.5 cm. This foam fades to a sturdy surface layer and very dense lattice when I swirl the glass. The beer looked clear during the pour but there is a ton of fine suspended sediment along with several active fine streams of carbonation.
Aroma is toffee and brown sugar and some dark bread. I also get some light fruit notes mixing with a good dose of cloves and sweet spiciness. Not really any hop profile and the booze seems hidden on the nose. Definitely malt forward, the spicy cloves are a bit of a surprise.
First sip reveals a medium body with a very creamy texture the rolls gently across my palate. Carbonation is very fine and slightly tingly, with a bit of fizziness if I let it sit in my mouth.
Flavor reflects most of the nose but here I get some banana and lemon to go with the cloves. Was this done with Weiss yeast? The toffee and brown sugar mixes with light fruit and then the banana and cloves take over. Some black peppery bite rolls in on the finish. I attribute this to booze, not yeast. No accompanying warmth though.
I enjoy the maltiness of this brew and am surprised by the cloves and banana, but it works pretty well as a combo. Enjoyable beer, sorta unique experience. Glad to have tried this one.

Reviewed blind (bottle sent by @dim).

Poured at fridge temp. Pours a really nice reddish-brown with a thin layer of off-white head. The nose is super smooth and fruit forward. Apricots, raisins, clove, toffee, and maple candy. Barrel? I definitely get some hints of bourbon barrels, but it's not overly strong (at least on the nose). I'm thinking a short aging. Let's get to the taste. Wow. Really good! Generally follows the nose. Toffee bursting at the seams. I'm getting the bourbon vanilla notes, along with a ton of fruit. Figs, apricots, honey, oranges, big malts, bread, and a strong sweetness throughout. No trace of hops. This, to me, is a classic barrel-aged English barleywine.

ABV? I'm thinking between 10 and 11%

 

 

Well this is certainly unique. It comes across to me as part (very) imperial hefeweizen and (very) imperial Festbier. Huge flavors of banana esters and burned caramel plus rich, sweet bread and some leafy hops. It's pretty sweet and that 13.8% ain't shy. Glad too have tried it though.