Barleywine Appreciation Thread (2023)

Yeah, but it's not about me! It's about you hitting 100-200 new Barleywines this year!

 

I was pleasantly surprised when I found this. The distributor I found it at had two 4 packs of it. I had never had it before so I took a chance and bought one 4 pack. As soon as I tried it I went back to said distributor and bought the other 4 pack!

 

Ecliptic Brewing Rye Barrel-Aged Orange Giant



This is the *ahem* penultimate beer from the stash that @DIM gave me last winter. I could drink rye whiskey barrel beers more often. There's a lightness to the flavor which compliments the sweetness of the malt and higher abv. Really enjoying this one.

 

Central Waters brandy barrel something-or-other. I've been holding off drinking that one because I can't recall ever having brandy. Thought it might be useful to try some first so I have a better idea of how it impacts the beer.

 

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Awesome Tim! Glad to hear this held up so well across almost two decades!

 

Enjoying Parallassein from Olde Hickory. This was aged in Port barrels for 299 weeks so if you enjoy Port this one is for you! Personally, if this was rebarreled in Bourbon halfway thru, the additional nuances would have enhanced it for my palate. As it was, figs and brown sugar dominate with a touch of chocolate on the backend. Overall a 4.18.
Cheers!
Tom

 

I'm so glad wheatwine has a place here too!

I know of one distinct Barleywine brewed here in UT a part of a Collab between Uinta and Kiitos, their American Barelywine Ale, and it is hopefully going to be on shelves again here soon.

However I found this beaut the other day (and forgive me, it's been a few days)

Uinta - Cinnamon Roll Wheatwine



Pours what I'd consider a fairly standard dark gold bordering on amber

Tastes were noticably spiced, but not necessarily worthy of calling it a 'cinnamon roll' in my opinion

Very warming and a great winter beer, but was missing the sugar sweetness I'd expect from something with this kind of name.

 

Big boozy barleywine from the cellar as part of Cellaruary: 2016 bottle of DFH Olde School. Raisin, brown sugar, fig, spiced rum, pipe tobacco - very rich aroma as it warms.

 

Finally, VSOJ!



I’ve wanted to try this one for quite some time obviously, but by the time I secured a can, I already had some Double Barrel VSOJ coming in from Tavour. Naturally, I wanted to try this out first so I can progress through the series in order.

This is a boozy, cask-driven Barleywine. Sweeter in the nose than in taste with lots of burnt caramel, sweet booze, and sugary notes with a bit of rye spice. It’s more fruit forward in taste, but never overbearing. Lots of black cherry and raisin with sweeter notes of molasses and whiskey. It’s very slick and a tad sticky on the finish, but the thin execution Revolution is known for keeps it from being overly sweet

This is an all around awesome beer. I know it’s only a year and a half old (canned 6/29/21) but I’d love to try it fresh if I get the chance some time

4.57/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

 

Enjoying an Olde Hickory Omega Point 25th Anniversary. A blend of multiple beers and barrels.

Taste is very nice, a large combined malt base gives notes of figs and cherries, a kiss of bourbon, and notes of tobacco. Finishes with a red wine barrel tang.
Overall a really easy sipper, very pleasant to drink. Not super nuanced but you will enjoy it if you are a fan of BA English Barleywines.

 

Warming up with a quadruple IPA is a good way to make sure this thing hits the spot so hard that there’ll be no open casket for said spot.

 

barleywine wednesdays

anchorage - 2022 DO ADWTD

massive and incredible barleywine. note to self: seek out more of the ADWTD variants.

 

This is a hoppy, malty, fruity great beer. I think i like Bigfoot a little more as far as American Barleywines go but this has a quality to it that I cant put my finger on but always keeps me searching for it...I really dig these