Broadlands
Aslin Beer Company
- From:
- Aslin Beer Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Barleywine
Ranked #45 - ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- 92
Ranked #5,636 - Avg:
- 4.39 | pDev: 4.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 30, 2024
- Added:
- May 17, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
92
Outstanding
92
Outstanding
Broadlands is made from a base blend of our previously released Ashburn barrel-aged barleywine. Broadlands is a bourbon barrel-aged barleywine with Indonesian and Tahitian vanilla.
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.83/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Slate blackish brown opaque body, mushroom colored head. Smells like bourbon barrel aged marshmallow and caramel so powerfull, barley and wood are faint. Taste is so sweet with sugary vanilla and marshmallow, caramel, molasses, brown sugar with only a little barley to balance. plus the rest of the barrel is gone. More barrel would have really helped the balance. Feel though is somehow warmer and sugary though thick. Rev, please, no more pastry barleywine, they only disappoint
Nov 14, 2024
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
4.35/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2023 release. No head. Caramel brown color.
Vanilla, but not overly sweet. Caramel, toffee, butterscotch. Oak, bourbon, light char. Light cocoa, cake batter. Plums, dried apple skins.
Really nice bw, with a lot going on. Vanilla doesn’t dominate.
Dec 21, 2023Vanilla, but not overly sweet. Caramel, toffee, butterscotch. Oak, bourbon, light char. Light cocoa, cake batter. Plums, dried apple skins.
Really nice bw, with a lot going on. Vanilla doesn’t dominate.
Reviewed by furiousss from Belgium
4.5/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Bottle, 500ml, release 2020
Look: Pours almost black with some brown foam
Smell: Some vanilla, chocolate
Taste: Vanilla, sweet. The barrel is present in a nice way.
Mouthfeel: Good body, the thickness you would expect in a barleywine.
Overall: Nice barleywine, good sweetness and a nice barrel character.
Jan 02, 2021Look: Pours almost black with some brown foam
Smell: Some vanilla, chocolate
Taste: Vanilla, sweet. The barrel is present in a nice way.
Mouthfeel: Good body, the thickness you would expect in a barleywine.
Overall: Nice barleywine, good sweetness and a nice barrel character.
Reviewed by 5toutman75 from Illinois
4.52/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.52/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
No bottling date listed but summer of 2020
Consumed 7/18/20
I'm always excited to try some Aslin barrel aged beers as they're hard to come by in the Midwest Chicago area. Broadlands is a nice looking barleywine. It's darker than most others (more black than brown.) It pours thinner than a stout as it should and that to me is always a bit of a letdown until I remind myself it's a barleywine. The smell is phenomenal with tons of booze and sweetness. The vanilla is low key, but there. There's little head. Tasting it, it follows the smell very closely. I am expecting more vanilla given all the vanilla bombs out there nowadays, but this one is much more subtle. I wish it had more vanilla perhaps, but I can also appreciate that all vanilla BA stouts/barleywines don't have to be ALL vanilla. It is a bit sweet for me as are most Aslin stouts. The barrel is really forward which I love, but I wish all of their stouts weren't so desserty. The bottle was perfect to share with a buddy, but it would be way too much sweetness for me to finish on my own. A worthy beer to seek out and pick up.
Jul 19, 2020Consumed 7/18/20
I'm always excited to try some Aslin barrel aged beers as they're hard to come by in the Midwest Chicago area. Broadlands is a nice looking barleywine. It's darker than most others (more black than brown.) It pours thinner than a stout as it should and that to me is always a bit of a letdown until I remind myself it's a barleywine. The smell is phenomenal with tons of booze and sweetness. The vanilla is low key, but there. There's little head. Tasting it, it follows the smell very closely. I am expecting more vanilla given all the vanilla bombs out there nowadays, but this one is much more subtle. I wish it had more vanilla perhaps, but I can also appreciate that all vanilla BA stouts/barleywines don't have to be ALL vanilla. It is a bit sweet for me as are most Aslin stouts. The barrel is really forward which I love, but I wish all of their stouts weren't so desserty. The bottle was perfect to share with a buddy, but it would be way too much sweetness for me to finish on my own. A worthy beer to seek out and pick up.
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