Favorite BBA Barley Wines

Bourbon County Barleywine
Sucaba
Great
Kuhnhenn BBBW
CWBBW
Mother of All Storms
Arctic Devil

And of course the greatest barleywine of all-time: King Henry

 

BCBBW
Sucaba

So many more I want to try though- ADWTD, CWBBW, Omega Point...

 

Dragoon brewery has an excellent one right now, Lazarus. http://www.dragoonbrewing.com/lazarus

 

BCBW
Not Bourbon barrel but Cognac barrel-Clown Shoes Billionaire

 

Is this draft only or was it bottled?

 

Sucaba
BA Hi Fi Rye- no longer brewed
Kuhnhenn
Mother of All Storms

 

Pelican mother of all Storms

 

Bourbon County Brand Barleywine
Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine
ADWTD
Bells Saturn
Weyerbacher Insanity
Kuhnhenn Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
FW Sucaba
FW DDBA

 

Not a big BW guy, but Omega Point is excellent.

 

I'm simultaneously shocked and unsurprised that it took almost 50 posts for Double DBA to get a mention. Such an underrated beer for the style, it seems like.

It's interesting, because the barrel-aged barleywines (specifically BCBBW) are what first got me into revisiting barleywines in general, as I thought I didn't like them for the longest time, which I blame on Bigfoot. But now it's probably my favorite non-sour barrel-aged style, period.

My favorite is Bourbon County, but the gap between it and all other good ones I've had is pretty small:

ADWTD
Sucaba
Mirror Mirror
Double DBA
London Balling
Saturn
Rye Barrel Old Numbskull

I still need to open my bottles of Cockeyed Cooper and Arctic Devil.

And if you want to stretch the limits of the barleywine style a bit, there are a couple of fantastic barrel-aged "ryewines": Rye-on-Rye and Rye Day the 13th

 

Old Conundrum on Wood
Cockeyed Cooper
Bligh's
BCBBW
Surly Eight
Sucaba

 

Aaron for sure is my favorite. Followed by King Henry.

 

Anyone had barrel aged monster 29 form dark horse?

 

Bourbon County BBA Barley Wine
Firestone Walker Sucaba

 

I have not tried a whole lot of them but for a readily available beer The Bruery Mash is quite good not a A+ beer but a good solid A beer all day and rather easy to find in California anyway.

 

BA Murderous... especially the batch that used the ancient barrels. Good stuff!

 

did a side by side with Lakefront Organic BA Barleywine and Mother of all Storms this past weekend. Had to give the edge to Lakefront - great stuff if you can find it!

 

My personal fav that's still made is Sucaba, followed not too far behind by BCBBW. King Henry might be the best beer I've ever had, so I give it the edge in this contest.

 

yeah its awesome, if you read my earlier post.

Craziest part is that is the closest beer to Aaron that ive had

 

Favorites have to be central waters BBBW and revolution straight jacket. I also enjoyed against the grains london balling.