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Noble Beast Brewing Company

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From:
Noble Beast Brewing Company
 
Ohio, United States
Style:
English Barleywine
ABV:
15.8%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
4.28 | pDev: 0.23%
Reviews:
1
Ratings:
2
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 22, 2023
Added:
Aug 14, 2020
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  1
A solera blend of 1 through 4 year foeder-aged barleywine. Intense aromas of orange blossom honey, light caramel, toasted oak, red fruit, and cola. Sweetness on the palate fades to a fairly dry (for the style) finish. The strength, at 15.8% ABV, is evident but avoids being harsh. This will age just as well, if not better, than the previous releases due to its potency.

ABV varies by year
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4.28 by DVMin98 from North Carolina

Oct 22, 2023
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.27/5  rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
The appearance starts slightly chill hazed garnet, clearing up to pure clarity as the chill settles. Essentially headless, WDRWDR looks like a glass of bordeaux, but for a few tiny, clear tan bubbles leaning against the glass. It's quite gorgeous through indirect sunlight.

Smell contains much brighter than expected notes of red grape leaning lightly into sherry nougat and caramel, even verging into a sort of red currant mead character.

On the palate blossoms lightly tart notes of plum and currant within the more traditional dark fruit characteristics. Then some significantly peppery char and date interplay with a faint touch of toasted pumpernickel.

Its fine but firm fizz glides into a rounded but medium body, lifting a warming fume that brings up a touch of vanilla oak after the semi-sticky finish. It'd be overall sweet but for an aftertaste that creeps in with a bitter burnt note, which I'm not quite clear whether its from the oak or the malt. The body rounds out more as it warms.

They took the wine part of barleywine VERY seriously...this is so wine-like it's truly grapey, kind of like sherry, and not quite tart but it kind of gives off a tart vibe in flavor. The label encourages aging for up to 25 years, and I imagine that some of the brighter notes here will subside to the darker oak qualities, but unfortunately I don't have any more of these teeny tiny bottles to find out.
Nov 10, 2020
We Don't Rat, We Don't Run from Noble Beast Brewing Company
Beer rating: 4.28 out of 5 with 2 ratings