Extra Oak Barley Wine
Moor Beer Company

 

 

Poured into a Stone Gargoyle flute. Pours a dark, somewhat hazy, orange brown, with a thin head that dissipates to patches with light lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, oak, musty woody caramel, ripe plums and Port. Flavor similar; dry caramel malt, aged plums and raisins, musty caramel, old oak and wood, fortified wine; somewhat tannic finish. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess, subdued carbonation. Definitely delivers on the extra oak, although it is more musty and woody with little of the vanilla oak character. It really tastes like an ancient barleywine that someone found in an ancient cellar in an old, hand-blown bottle without a date or clear label. Lots of ripe and stewed plum notes. Somewhat reminds me of some of Fantome's aged dark ales, but with a little less flavor density, or a very aged old ale. interesting in a mysterious, ancient way. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I like these old musty ales every once in a while.