A Wicked Googly
Riverlands Brewing Co

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Riverlands Brewing Co
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
English Barleywine
ABV:
10%
Score:
+7 ratings needed
Avg:
3.94 | pDev: 9.14%
Ratings:
3 | reviews: 2
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Feb 17, 2022
Added:
Feb 06, 2020
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
Our English style Barleywine brewed with our good friends Ken McMullen at Hopvine in Aurora, IL and Phil Clark from the Brit and Yankee Craft Beer Podcast! This is a no frills, no adjunct, classic beer that lets the malt complexity do the talking. Bring out your cricket bats, because this is A Wicked Googly!
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 3.75 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Feb 17, 2022
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Reviewed by barnzy78 from Illinois

3.62/5  rDev -8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
22oz bottle, no apparent freshness date. Rusty brown colored ale with a thinner tan head. Malty and boozy aroma hints at toffee, caramel, toasted grain, sultana, fruity esters, and earthy hops. This is a malt bomb with plenty of complex flavors: grain, caramel, toffee, sultana, vanilla, brown sugar, honey, and some earthy & herbal hops. Full body, ample carbonation, alcohol is hot at times. It was good to have a barley wine after a long while, even longer since I had anything from Hopvine.
Apr 22, 2020
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

4.45/5  rDev +12.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Had on tap. Dark brown clear body with a light tan collar. Smell hits the barley, toffee malt, slight booze, and raisin. Taste does extremely well to have huge flavor: toffee, caramel, sugar roasted nuts, slight earth, dark fruit, and booze, without getting too saturated or heavy on the palate. In fact the actual feel is decently light and thin in a good way, like a proper EBW does. Technically pleasing and flavorful, please put in some barrels! The wife loved it
Mar 06, 2020