Bedlam
Matchless Brewing

a super heady barrel aged peated barleywine done with edison city alehouse, an improvement over the peated barleywine they had on when we hit the brewery, mainly because this is so much more peat driven and dry, the other one was all bourbon and residual sugar, this to me seems thick and heavy in the right ways, dense as can be, complex and earthy like crazy, but with equal contributions from peat, grain, barrel, and yeast, its all here. im not totally sure what a bar can contribute to a beer like this, especially one so pretentious on the people side, unless they had a lead on some cool barrels or something, but i have to credit matchless, not edison city for how good this is, right? someone fill me in! murky and viscous from the bottle, cool packaging on it, deep amber to brick red with some real legs. it smells and tastes like spicy rye, although i dont know if any is present, brown sugar and maple, long boiled malt richness, gingerbread, smoke, and iodine, even bandaid from the peat, appealing to me, subtle dried peach, raisin, and clove too, great depth, lots of booze, not all that much sweetness, and it gets massively complex as it warms, cigar and toffee, must and oak, old books and a new pack of cigarettes, more rye somehow, vanilla, honey, like a lotion for men i wish they made. heavy in feel without much carbonation, seems built for the ages for me, like this could be just as good or better in a decade, and i love barleywine like this. vastly different than whats on at the brewery right now, and to me and my homie, radically better. cant say enough about this one, thankful he saved it to share with me, wow! matchless is on fire!