B'Wizzle
The Alementary Brewing Co.

16oz can. Bottom stamp is '124B'.
Cloudy, brown colored body. Beige colored head with the pour but this immediately dissipates to a minor surface storm. No lacing.
Aroma of fruit - apple, plum, raisin, date, and prune.
Taste is sweet, with flavors of apple, butter, plum, and date. Aftertaste is rather short and gets non-specific.
More than medium mouthfeel. Smooth and with syrup. No bitterness, but a slight buzz with each sip. Supportive carbonation.
Good flavor, but taste profile is rather muddy, and does not linger.

16 oz can into a snifter.
L: SRM 16 Pours murky medium brown color with a fizzy cola-like head that was audibly sizzling as it instantly receded to zero, high carbo with lots of edge bubbles, no lacing.
S: Booze/rum, caramel malts, dark fruits, dry leather, brown bread.
T: Dark dried fruits, plum, red grape distant ginger, leather, moist sweet brown bread, a whisper of wood smoke, has bread late in the finish. There is a rum barrel halo, it is subtly sweet and the tastes are balanced.
F: Fizzy, almost parching dry heavy bodied mouthfeel that has a snap and a medium-long dry finish.
O: A sipper. Rum barrel notes are at an excellent level. Redolent of a Belgian Abbey Quad but has some American attributes. Pleasant drinking at 10% ABV with good tastes and a slightly lively feel. Too bad the brewery closed. B-Wizzle is good in its style.

 

Poured from a can into a snifter
Appearance- The beer pours a murky brown color with a small head of off-white fizzy foam. The head fades quite quickly, leaving almost no lacing at all.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a sweet brown sugar and toffee smell mixed with some lightly toasted bread and a bit of plum and prune. Other aroma of toffee ad nut and some oak and booze are in there as well, creating a rather inviting smell overall.
Taste – The taste begins with a bit of brown sugar, caramel, and toffee that was in the nose mixed with some brown bread and a hint of herb. The sweet is lighter then would have been anticipated from the nose and remains on a medium level throughout the taste. The bread and malt intensify a bit as the taste advances and other flavors of apple and plum join in. Notes of oak and some rum like booziness join in later in the profile, with one being left with a slightly malty, but very approachable and lightly warming taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is lighter for the style and abv. with a lower carbonation level. The lighter body is quite nice, complimenting the mild sweetness well and making it easier drinking.
Overall – Certainly not an “in your face” kind of barleywine. More subdued in intensity, while still packing a decently hefty abv. I rather like this. Not a sweet bomb like most barleywines produced nowadays. To bad they are closed, would have come back to this one again.

 

Poured from a can at fridge temp. Pours a nice murky brown with little head. Nose is pine, lemons, and a bit of wheat. Doesn't really smell like a barleywine to me. The taste confirms this. A touch of leather, light citrus notes, and some hops. Missing the toffee notes. Based on the style, this really doesn't hit the right note. However, it is a decent beer.