Barleywine style tasting March 4th

@Scott17Taylor

The Info I found was on the six pack holder for brown shugga on the handle. I don't have it on hand.

 

Am I crazy or was Horn Dog in little nips at one point?

 

I feel like I remember that but I may just be tripping. This flying fish exit 4 is catching up to me lol. I only know of 21st amendment doing lower the boom in 8oz cans.

 

Checking in for tonight's offering. Good to see such a huge spread of different takes on the style. Allow me to go further down the rabbit hole with Fort Collins Brewing Oldwyn Old Ale. This beer is barleywine lite, pouring a deep garnet hue, with an off white head. The nose is all caramel and prune. Flavors of caramel and toffee up front, dark prune in the middle, fading to a bitter chocolate on the backside. Mouthfeel is nice, not as thick and heavy as it's big brother barleywine, and a touch more carbonation keeps the beer from coating the palate. Overall what a great beer.

 

I had a six lying around . " We were making our Gnarlywine back in '98 , messed up the recipe , and this Elegant Accident is what we got . "

 

Thanks. I thought there was more to it but now I think i may have tried to put the name together with the "mistake" to make shit up In my head lol.

 

I'm for it. Style guidelines can be far and few in between. That to me drinks more like a barleywine than anything else. Cheers.

 

Yes, I'm late to the party, but what's a party without an afterparty?!???
Tonight, my barleywine of choice was Avery Hog Heaven, their so-called "Dry Hopped Barleywine". I had never had this before, so I was going in blind.



It comes in a hazy dark amber color. The head is creamy and beige. Smells of sweet, sugary malts and dried fruit. Caramel, toasted bread, brown sugar; dried apricot, papaya, prunes, and white raisins.
The taste follows the nose. The mouthfeel is medium-full, nice and chewy and bready, with medium carbonation.
Granted, I don't know the age of this bottle, but this is one of those beers that crosses the line between really old DIPA and barleywine. It's very malty, sweet, with subdued hop characteristics. The dried fruits character is nice, though. It's good, but it lacks some of the complexities I expect from a barleywine.

 

I arrived home late last night after visiting family in Maryland and wasn't able to post this till now. One of my contributions to yesterday's beer tasting was Vengeful Heart, an American Barleywine brewed by Kane Brewing Company. I While I prefer English Barleywines, this one is very good.

 

Avery has relabeled this as a red ipa. So no surprise it tastes like an old dipa.

 

Oooh sounds interesting, I love Scotch Ales so I will be on the lookout for this.

 

That does not surprise me.

 

That makes me wonder how old this bottle was. I couldn't find any sort of a date on it anywhere. I'm curious to know.

 

The label change was last summer.

 

I walked into a brew pub for dinner last night, and to my surprise the special beer on tap was one of their barleywines from 2011. I had to get a glass just to check it out. It was a weekend of barleywines. I couldn't ask for much more then that.

 

This tasting turned out to be very good. Looking forward to the next one.

Cheers!