Barrel Aged Barleywine Ale
Chuckanut Brewery
- From:
- Chuckanut Brewery
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 10.8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 2.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2025
- Added:
- Apr 13, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Brewed in collaboration with North Fork Brewery and aged 8 months in Westland Distillery oak whiskey barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DIM from Pennsylvania
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle #239
This is on the lighter side in color and body but there are some nice flavors here. I get sugary raisins, cherry Pez, honey, toffee, and sweet whiskey. This definitely leans sweet and it's pretty darn good. Thanks Ryan!.
Apr 07, 2025This is on the lighter side in color and body but there are some nice flavors here. I get sugary raisins, cherry Pez, honey, toffee, and sweet whiskey. This definitely leans sweet and it's pretty darn good. Thanks Ryan!.
Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
3.92/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Sampling a cellar temp bottle poured into my snifter. Bottle is #237. Purchased at brewery and shipped to me by @snaotheus thank you!
The beer pours a dark mahogany color that reveals garnet highlights when held to a light source. Several active streams of carbonation rise to the surface. A fizzy beige head of 1.5 cm foams up on the pour and fades to a sturdy edge layer and one large island on the surface.
Aroma is fairly sweet up front. I get toffee, brown sugar, some werthers candy, some dark fruit notes too. No real hop character that I can detect here and the ABV is pretty well hidden on the nose.
First sip reveals a lighter body than anticipated and some very fine tingly carbonation. texture is fairly smooth and the beer drinks easy. No sticky notes that many barleywines have.
Flavor is similar to the nose with no surprises. I get some brown sugar and sweet toffee and again some dark fruit. I think plum or fig notes. generally a sweeter beer. ABV is only present in bitey finish with black pepper flavor. No warming on the swallow or in my belly. Hops dont make any case for themselves on flavor profile either.
this is a good barleywine, less full body than I would expect and flavor is good, but could be bolder too. I am glad to have tried it, but its not a top tier barleywine in my book.
May 22, 2023The beer pours a dark mahogany color that reveals garnet highlights when held to a light source. Several active streams of carbonation rise to the surface. A fizzy beige head of 1.5 cm foams up on the pour and fades to a sturdy edge layer and one large island on the surface.
Aroma is fairly sweet up front. I get toffee, brown sugar, some werthers candy, some dark fruit notes too. No real hop character that I can detect here and the ABV is pretty well hidden on the nose.
First sip reveals a lighter body than anticipated and some very fine tingly carbonation. texture is fairly smooth and the beer drinks easy. No sticky notes that many barleywines have.
Flavor is similar to the nose with no surprises. I get some brown sugar and sweet toffee and again some dark fruit. I think plum or fig notes. generally a sweeter beer. ABV is only present in bitey finish with black pepper flavor. No warming on the swallow or in my belly. Hops dont make any case for themselves on flavor profile either.
this is a good barleywine, less full body than I would expect and flavor is good, but could be bolder too. I am glad to have tried it, but its not a top tier barleywine in my book.
Reviewed by snaotheus from Washington
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
2023-04-12
500ml bottle served in a tulip. No date, but there's a hand-written bottle number on it: 236.
Pours dark reddish-brown with a fairly small head and a surprisingly large quantity of very fine carbonation. Head is small, light tan in color. Smell is rich raisins and vanilla, a little wood. Maybe a little toffee.
Taste is lots of raisin or date, a fair amount of oak, maybe a hint of wet cardboard. Definite sweetness, maybe just a slight lean toward toffee.
Mouthfeel is surprisingly thin and dry. Not unpleasant, but definitely not what I expect from the style. Overall, it good and I'm enjoying it, but it's not like a standout of the style by any stretch.
Apr 13, 2023500ml bottle served in a tulip. No date, but there's a hand-written bottle number on it: 236.
Pours dark reddish-brown with a fairly small head and a surprisingly large quantity of very fine carbonation. Head is small, light tan in color. Smell is rich raisins and vanilla, a little wood. Maybe a little toffee.
Taste is lots of raisin or date, a fair amount of oak, maybe a hint of wet cardboard. Definite sweetness, maybe just a slight lean toward toffee.
Mouthfeel is surprisingly thin and dry. Not unpleasant, but definitely not what I expect from the style. Overall, it good and I'm enjoying it, but it's not like a standout of the style by any stretch.
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