Barley One
Iron Tug Brewing
- From:
- Iron Tug Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 11.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 8.77%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 08, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 26, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This English style Barleywine was aged in a Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrel for 11 months. It has mellow oaky vanilla undertones with subtle molasses and fig notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.49/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A bit thin for the style, and very boozy aroma - maybe in the can too long? Boozy, but still a lot of barrelling character and wheat wine element to still like.
Oct 08, 2024
Reviewed by BillRoth from Maryland
4.25/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Gifted a bottle by Jeremy.
Surprisingly tasty BW with nice barrel notes but not the strong BBA effects that often compete and ruin an otherwise nice BW. Nothing thick and cloying. Beautiful pour with orange rusty woody colors and a full plume of off white head. Just a really nice English style sipper despite higher ABV.
Jul 15, 2023Surprisingly tasty BW with nice barrel notes but not the strong BBA effects that often compete and ruin an otherwise nice BW. Nothing thick and cloying. Beautiful pour with orange rusty woody colors and a full plume of off white head. Just a really nice English style sipper despite higher ABV.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.23/5 rDev +6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This one pours a slightly murky dark brown color, with a small head, and not much lacing.
This smells like vanilla, oak, caramel, bourbon, toffee, and a sort of floral aroma that I can't place.
This is a really impressive for a brewery's first bottle release. It's not perfect - it doesn't have that big barrel punch I enjoy in the best versions of this style, but the barrel presence definitely helps and aids the very tasty base beer here. There's the usual caramel, toffee, breadiness in good amounts here, and the barrel doesn't necessary lay on bourbon notes - but I do get vanilla and some nice oak spice out of it.
This is medium bodied in thickness, with very little booziness. There's a lower level of carbonation.
There aren't many breweries going good barleywines locally, so this release definitely excited me. I hope they do it again, and have a chance to dial it in further.
Mar 28, 2021This smells like vanilla, oak, caramel, bourbon, toffee, and a sort of floral aroma that I can't place.
This is a really impressive for a brewery's first bottle release. It's not perfect - it doesn't have that big barrel punch I enjoy in the best versions of this style, but the barrel presence definitely helps and aids the very tasty base beer here. There's the usual caramel, toffee, breadiness in good amounts here, and the barrel doesn't necessary lay on bourbon notes - but I do get vanilla and some nice oak spice out of it.
This is medium bodied in thickness, with very little booziness. There's a lower level of carbonation.
There aren't many breweries going good barleywines locally, so this release definitely excited me. I hope they do it again, and have a chance to dial it in further.
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