Arabesque Reserve (2025)
Phase Three Brewing Company
- From:
- Phase Three Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 14.9%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.46 | pDev: 2.69%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 17, 2026
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Arabesque Reserve 2025 builds from the 2024 base, extending its rest in oak to 36 months. The additional time amplifies both malt and spirit, revealing layers of fig syrup, tobacco, and warm bourbon tones over vanilla and deep wood character. Richer, darker, and more profound on the palate.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by mschrei from Illinois
4.6/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I love me some BA English Barleywine, and I love me some Phase Three. This thing is badass. Everything that I want in the style: strong, thick, sweet, boozy. Just yum.
Apr 17, 2026
Reviewed by SpeedwayJim from New York
4.21/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.21/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
500ml waxed and capped bottle into a Lost Abbey teku.
Pours dense, thick, rich. Huge legs. No head. Near flat. Color is dark, almost an opaque mahogany. Nose is booze. Brown sugar, molasses, oak, tobacco. Layers of raisin and prunes. This one smells chewy. Brown sugar, molasses, and oak up front. As it aerates, raisin, prunes, and other dark fruits reveal themselves. Sugary but not overly so and doesn't overwhelm the complexity. More brown sugar layered over vanilla towards the end. Sweet, syrupy finish with plenty of wood. Full bodied and heavy on the palate. This is more port and syrup than beer. Little to no carbonation. Long aftertaste.
The flavor and nose here is incredible but I think the feel goes just a bit too far. The lack of carbonation and overweight body drags the experience and makes this hard to revisit over and over.
Jan 25, 2026Pours dense, thick, rich. Huge legs. No head. Near flat. Color is dark, almost an opaque mahogany. Nose is booze. Brown sugar, molasses, oak, tobacco. Layers of raisin and prunes. This one smells chewy. Brown sugar, molasses, and oak up front. As it aerates, raisin, prunes, and other dark fruits reveal themselves. Sugary but not overly so and doesn't overwhelm the complexity. More brown sugar layered over vanilla towards the end. Sweet, syrupy finish with plenty of wood. Full bodied and heavy on the palate. This is more port and syrup than beer. Little to no carbonation. Long aftertaste.
The flavor and nose here is incredible but I think the feel goes just a bit too far. The lack of carbonation and overweight body drags the experience and makes this hard to revisit over and over.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.47/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.47/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Blackish brown opaque, almost syrupy pour, no head save a brown ring. Smell features a bourbon forward barrel, toasted caramel, molasses, toffee, big raisin and honey dipped dates. Taste focuses on the whole barrel, with rich toasted caramel, molasses, toffee, raisin, big fig, hint of plum, barley, general boozy accents, tiny char flakes, vanillins, and smoked honeycomb. Feel is smooth, rich, thick and yet barrel is there too. More rich dessert variety of barleywine, but well done
Dec 23, 2025
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