Fallon's Field
Lamplighter Brewing Company

Pours a smaller off-white fizzy head with lower retention, good legs, hazy auburn-reddish-brown color

Nose is very fruity, apple cider, plum, a little grape wine or maybe even sherry, some caramel toffee and sweet malts, with a touch of candi sugar like caramelized sugars, biscuity toffee and some prune/raisin, and a touch of smooth alcohol, touch of vanilla oak

Taste brings rich malts again, loads of caramel, butterscotch, more biscuity toffee and a bit nutty, layers of smooth caramel, caramel creams, candy, etc, light smooth perfumey alcohol, touch of bitterness and herbal hops, quite fruity as well with more apple, plum, sherry and rose wine and maybe port-like, a little wood and vanilla barrel spice, more raisin prune late as well, and a little alcohol phenol note that gets almost tangy spicy like, and a little flowery rose water even, more spicy phenols and alcohol late, with more caramel and fruits as well

Mouth is med to fuller bod, smooth and chewy like caramel thing going, light warming alcohol hints at tingly when it warms, med to a bit higher carb

Overall not bad, pretty solid barleywine, loads of caramel, typical English toffee and biscuity malt notes, tons of fruit as well typical in English barleywine, nice rounded alcohol, a bit of the barrel, enjoyable

Starts with a large bubbled head. Any lace slides down the glass leaving only minute spots. Dark amber color with a notable haze.

The smell fits the barley wine style -- lots of toasty sweet malt, alcohol, and some light berry fruit. No notable hop.

The taste is syrupy with strong treacle notes. The alcohol is strong and warming. Lowly carbonated with a correspondingly rich body, again true to style. The aftertaste is similar to a ruby port with a long warming presence and lingering malt sugars.