Dagon
New Image Brewing Company

Cellared a year. Had head to head with Father Dagon. Mostly clear medium brown body, plump tan head. Smell is sweet and light with notes of plum, not at all toasted caramel, date, barley. Taste adds dry rugged earth in a serious way, almost a hint of orange hop on the end. Feel is light and smooth with some barley textures, but kind of dull

This is a wonderfully unadulterated English barleywine. Sweet toffee most prominently alongside notes of figs, raisins, honey, and faint black tea. There is a lingering sugary note with faint praline that is really working for me. Really good stuff.

 

Poured from a can at fridge temp. Pours a nice dark brown with a thin layer of head. The nose is full of nice smooth malts. Bread, slight toffee, a touch of maple, and a slight oaky bitterness.

The taste is nice and smooth. Sweet toffee, tons of malts, figs, slight hoppy bitterness, honey, and a floral note. Very nice, and glad to see a brewery coming out with a straight up English barleywine without barrel aging or anything added.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied and the aftertaste is sweet toffee.