Time For That
Aslin Beer Company
- From:
- Aslin Beer Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.1 | pDev: 4.39%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 08, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 17, 2018
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Barleywine w/ Blueberry, Brown Sugar, Cinnamon, & Vanilla
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheSixthRing from California
4.09/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
4.09/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
From the 01/24/19 can release
Appearance - Pours dark cola brown with a slightly reddish tinge. Light tan, near finger width head shows fair retention before dying down to a thin, broken layer of suds with a thin ring around the edge of the glass. Broken lines and small spotting make up a decent amount of lacing.
Smell - Chocolate forward aroma with lesser brown sugar and caramel. slight cinnamon spice, vanilla and vague blueberry fruitiness.
Taste - Follows the nose. Milk chocolate, brown sugar, cinnamon and blueberries dominate much of the initial the flavor profile upfront, with caramel and vanilla adding their distinctive touches by mid-taste. Faint roasty bitterness. Sweet, dessert-like finish with all the aforementioned flavors melding together.
Mouthfeel - Full-bodied with fair carbonation. Smooth, creamy texture, and it stays creamy all the way through.
Overall - A barleywine in name only? The amount of sweet ingredients added to this brew makes it drink more akin to a very heavy, adjunct-laced imperial milk stout, porter or maybe even brown. I mean, if someone handed me this beer and asked me to name the style, I doubt barleywine would be in my top 5 guesses. This is an awesome beer if graded only on the merit of taste, smell and texture, but adding all these sweet ingredients and completely killing the barelywine base is a head scratcher to me. Maybe I'm just old school in liking my barleywines pure, or at least not defiled to the point of being unrecognizable.
Jan 30, 2019Appearance - Pours dark cola brown with a slightly reddish tinge. Light tan, near finger width head shows fair retention before dying down to a thin, broken layer of suds with a thin ring around the edge of the glass. Broken lines and small spotting make up a decent amount of lacing.
Smell - Chocolate forward aroma with lesser brown sugar and caramel. slight cinnamon spice, vanilla and vague blueberry fruitiness.
Taste - Follows the nose. Milk chocolate, brown sugar, cinnamon and blueberries dominate much of the initial the flavor profile upfront, with caramel and vanilla adding their distinctive touches by mid-taste. Faint roasty bitterness. Sweet, dessert-like finish with all the aforementioned flavors melding together.
Mouthfeel - Full-bodied with fair carbonation. Smooth, creamy texture, and it stays creamy all the way through.
Overall - A barleywine in name only? The amount of sweet ingredients added to this brew makes it drink more akin to a very heavy, adjunct-laced imperial milk stout, porter or maybe even brown. I mean, if someone handed me this beer and asked me to name the style, I doubt barleywine would be in my top 5 guesses. This is an awesome beer if graded only on the merit of taste, smell and texture, but adding all these sweet ingredients and completely killing the barelywine base is a head scratcher to me. Maybe I'm just old school in liking my barleywines pure, or at least not defiled to the point of being unrecognizable.
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