Your favorite Barleywine?

I currently have a BA Bigfoot, Lagunitas Gnarlywine, Hoppin Frog BA Naked Evil, BA and regular Brick Kiln, Bruery Mash, and Gramps from Rhinegeist! It's gettin pretty gnarly over here!

 

Revolution Straight Jacket
Old Stock Cellar Reserve 2011 and 2013

 

And don't forget: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/652/2837/

I think it actually stands up to extended aging (3+ years) better than CW BBBW.

 

Definitely Omega Point from Olde Hickory

 

Bligh's from Dry Dock Brewing

 

`Recently have really loved Omega Point. Others of note are Mash and Grind, Mirror Mirror, Gratitude plus so many more!
Cheers all

 

SN Bigfoot and Stone Old Guardian.

 

on that hasn't been mentioned yet that was a complete surprise was ba murderous

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28178/104825/

ive only had batch 2 and it completely hit me by surprise

same goes for Omega Point! stellar

another I have high hopes for is Anabsis! most if ever traded for a beer, I hope its as good as my expectations are!

one of my white whales is Royal Oil.... one day

 

Sucaba is king.

 

This had a couple years on it and it was amazing.

 

Rogue makes good beer?

 

Not my style of choice, but FW Sucaba is one I like and an oddball I tried recently was Coop Territorial Reserve, which was really smooth.

 

Central Waters also makes a terrific BA Barley Wine. Yet BCBBW is in a league all its own.

 

So far, English is Mother of All Storms, Leon, and BCBBW. And for American, I'm thinking Founder's Bolt Cutter and Hangar 24's Hammerhead.

 

-Smutty Nose Barleywine
-Bigfoot
-Third Coast
-Rogue Old Crustacean with a few years on it.

 

Top 5 BA and Non BA Barley Wines

BA Barley Wines:
King Henry
Brick Kiln
Aaron
BCBBW
Bolt Cutter

Non BA Barley Wines:
Old Foghorn
Old Guardian
Brick Kiln
Old Ruffian
Hog Heaven

 

DFH Burton Baton

 

Central Waters Brewers Reserve Barrel Aged Barleywine Ale
Bell's Saturn

These are both English style Barleywines and so have a softer hop presence. I find I don't care for the more pronounced hoppiness of the American style as typified by Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, Stone Old Guardian or Full Sail Barleywine Ale. Deschutes Mirror Mirror falls in between the two styles, especially as it ages and begins to taste more like the English style.

 

Bourbon County Barleywine wins. Sucaba, Almanac Heirloom Pumpkin Barleywine, Midnight Sun Arctic Devil, The Bruery Smooth Criminal, Jack's Abby Bride Maker, and Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Barleywine are all fine options though. I do have a bottle of A Deal with the Devil I've yet to crack that I'm pumped for, and would kill to try Cigar City Leon and Hill Farmstead Aaron.

 

King Henry
Sucaba
BCBBW
Straight Jacket
Double Date (technically a quad according to GI, but tastes like a great English barleywine)