Barrel-Aged Jersey Devil Barleywine Ale
Great Barn Brewery
- From:
- Great Barn Brewery
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 10, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.11/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.11/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Great Barn Brewery "Barrel-Aged Jersey Devil Barleywine Ale"
16 fl. oz. can without production codes or freshness dating
$5.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: A rough pour has brought up an average-sized head of khaki colored foam atop a somewhat hazy chestnut colored body. The aroma clearly suggests whiskey barrels, and although the label doesn't specify what kid of barrels they used I'm guessing most if not all of them were Bourbon barrels. It's sweet with brown sugar and caramel, Bourbon, and oak. On to the taste... as is quite often the case, the taste doesn't fall far from the aroma. There's some added dark fruit there that reminds me of raisins and sugared plums, dried figs, fallen apples, and even some sweet berries, as well as an occasional note of coconut, and a spritz of alcohol. The alcohol helps to dry it in the finish. It's malty sweet upfront with cereal and brown sugar, and then fruity across the middle into the finish where the alcohol appears. There's not a lot of hop flavor there, or at least it's hard to tell with the oak in play. Some leafiness, woodiness, and earthiness linger in the aftertaste supporting what remains of the alcohol soaked dark fruit. There's some bitterness there as well, and it's pretty perfectly balanced for such a behemoth of a beer. In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous - maybe I should call it medium-full. A low level carbonation lends a gentle caress to the tongue before fading to leave it smooth and creamy. I don't know what others will say but I think this is a kick-ass beer, and I'm not referring to the alcohol content. I'm guessing that it'll suffer criticism under the flag of "it could've been" but it is what it is. I'm really enjoying it, and I think that it would make a great after dinner sipper out on the porch in fall, or in front of the fireplace in winter. Of course I'm drinking it at the end of winter, ten days before spring begins, while the sun is setting, the birds are chirping, and the temperature is a pleasant 63˚F so that works too - just don't take it to the beach!
Review #7,262
Mar 10, 202116 fl. oz. can without production codes or freshness dating
$5.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: A rough pour has brought up an average-sized head of khaki colored foam atop a somewhat hazy chestnut colored body. The aroma clearly suggests whiskey barrels, and although the label doesn't specify what kid of barrels they used I'm guessing most if not all of them were Bourbon barrels. It's sweet with brown sugar and caramel, Bourbon, and oak. On to the taste... as is quite often the case, the taste doesn't fall far from the aroma. There's some added dark fruit there that reminds me of raisins and sugared plums, dried figs, fallen apples, and even some sweet berries, as well as an occasional note of coconut, and a spritz of alcohol. The alcohol helps to dry it in the finish. It's malty sweet upfront with cereal and brown sugar, and then fruity across the middle into the finish where the alcohol appears. There's not a lot of hop flavor there, or at least it's hard to tell with the oak in play. Some leafiness, woodiness, and earthiness linger in the aftertaste supporting what remains of the alcohol soaked dark fruit. There's some bitterness there as well, and it's pretty perfectly balanced for such a behemoth of a beer. In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous - maybe I should call it medium-full. A low level carbonation lends a gentle caress to the tongue before fading to leave it smooth and creamy. I don't know what others will say but I think this is a kick-ass beer, and I'm not referring to the alcohol content. I'm guessing that it'll suffer criticism under the flag of "it could've been" but it is what it is. I'm really enjoying it, and I think that it would make a great after dinner sipper out on the porch in fall, or in front of the fireplace in winter. Of course I'm drinking it at the end of winter, ten days before spring begins, while the sun is setting, the birds are chirping, and the temperature is a pleasant 63˚F so that works too - just don't take it to the beach!
Review #7,262
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