ABUSEDGOAT (4006) - California, USA - DEC 21, 2020UPDATED: DEC 21, 2020 Chestnut with a small tan head. Aroma of wood, caramel, toffee, sugar, oak, wood, vanilla. Full bodied, sweet, big caramel toffee flavors with moderate to high barrel presence, warming.
RobBestwick (1288) - Calgary, Alberta, CANADA - SEP 18, 2020UPDATED: SEP 18, 2020 Bottle. Strong aroma of caramel, toffee and brown sugar. Pours with a cloudy brown hue and no head. Minimal carbonation. Rich malt flavour with notes of caramel, toffee and brown sugar. Medium bodied with a slick texture. Sweet finish with significant alcohol warming.
alexsdad06 (16451) - West Chester, Ohio, USA - MAR 29, 2020UPDATED: MAR 29, 2020 22 oz. bottle, from notes (2016). Pours a murky dark auburn brown color with a small beige head. The aroma and flavor have big caramel, brown sugar, molasses, dark fruit, prunes, raisins, fish, it is a big beer but smooth and easy to drink, medium plus body, some viscosity, abv is warming, sweet, very good.
TimE (8459) - Tokyo, JAPAN - JAN 18, 2020UPDATED: JAN 18, 2020 Over top sweet brown sugar burnt raisin oak vanilla . Sweet never cloying. Not a masterpiece. Not too boozy. Decent without being outstanding
Thisis12ptfont (2663) - Los Angeles, CA, California, USA - JAN 1, 2020UPDATED: JAN 1, 2020 bourbon barrel oak cedarwood oat amazing nougat candy oats se sealt barley oats grains milk chocooate maple syrup maple bark brown sugar
Ibrew2or3 (10208) - Tempe, Arizona, USA - NOV 7, 2019UPDATED: NOV 7, 2019 2015 vintage non BA.
22oz bomber pours with a dark clear mahogany colored body that supports a wafer thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up sticky prunes, figs and raisins as well as booze, malts and a bit of oxidation. The taste delivers smooth slick sweet malts running into prunes, raisins and a touch of oxidized cardboard notes. To midway moments of caramel and molasses are notes before this slides into a pleasing finish. This is a smooth sipper with little sense of the massive ABV.
GregMooreNH (6520) - Bedford, New Hampshire, USA - JUL 27, 2019UPDATED: JUL 27, 2019 Pours hazy mahogany with a one finger dark beige head. Aroma is strong toffee, butter, roast and some booziness. Taste is toffee and fig, moving to buttery notes, light roast and building hoppiness. Finish is hoppy and toffee. A good barley wine.
Headbanger (4457) - Aurora, Illinois, USA - MAY 15, 2019UPDATED: MAY 15, 2019 22 oz bottle 5/24/19 (Binny's Montgomery) 38° in Snifter. Pours ruby with no head. Aroma of sweetness, brown sugar, toffee, caramel, and malt. Taste of the same with a bit of alcohol. This full bodied brew is not bad but a bit sweet.
shawnmurphy (1798) - Plattsburgh, New York, USA - FEB 26, 2019UPDATED: FEB 26, 2019 22-ounce bottle pours clear mahogany-ruby with no head and the tiniest bit of tan lacing. Aroma: brown sugar, malt vinegar, raisins. Flavor: intensely sweet with caramel, toffee and brown sugar, along with raisins, molasses brown bread, nuts; syrupy sweet with no detectable balancing bitterness (say, like with a Sierra Nevada Bigfoot barley wine). Mouthfeel: full-bodied, oily finish. A sweet booze bomb that is so sweet it's cloying, and eventually becomes exhausting to drink (I dumped the last one-third of the bottle).
BeerVegard (1124) - NORWAY - FEB 8, 2019UPDATED: FEB 8, 2019 0,65l bottle. Pours brown with light beige head. Aroma of malt, caramel, toffee, dark fruit, slight herbal. Taste is super sweet, malt, caramel, toffee, dark fruit, dried fruit. Oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation.