Well-balanced chocolate sweetness and malted barley grist placed alongside easy flowing crystalline hop groove. Pungent alcohol finish retains spirited barleywine warmth and caramelized raisin-fig aspect, but fruity adjuncts could be more pronounced for better creative distinction.
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BRIDGEPORT OLD KNUCKLEHEAD BARLEYWINE STYLE ALE
9.1% alcohol thrust boosts doubled malt-hop complexity, bruised orange souring, and port-like dryness to full-bodied hearty warmth. Fruitcake, malt liqueur, and dark rum illusions crowd cherry-pureed pineapple-mango-papaya center. At finish, honeyed nuttiness drapes slow sipping bourbon-barreled dessert treat.
GREEN FLASH BARLEYWINE
LEFT HAND WIDDERSHINS BARLEYWINE-STYLE ALE
SLY FOX PANACEA BARLEYWINE
BROOKLYN MONSTER ALE 2000
HAIR OF THE DOG DOGGIE CLAWS BARLEYWINE ALE
Pour slowly puffy beige-laced amber-toned bottle-conditioned barleywine or risk carbolic explosion. Perfumed herbal hop bittering buttresses candi-sugared orange-soured tartness and grapefruit-peeled nectarine-apricot-pineapple-mango fruiting. Heartwarming juniper-spiced alcohol finish relaxes nerves.
MAD RIVER JOHN BARLEYCORN BARLEYWINE ALE
Serpentine-like turbid magenta barleywine changes course like vintage wine. Haughtily acrid molasses-draped charred wood, black tar, and tobacco chaw bittering, alongside hefty 9.5% alcohol burn, may disappoint softer palates, but escalating lactic robustness sweetens endless peculiarities efficiently. Chewy brown-sugared chocolate-vanilla upsurge informs pureed raisin creaminess, orange-bruised cherry puree compaction, and illustrious medicinal finish. Dry bourbon, burgundy, and brandy wining stumbles across hard-candied coriander-spiced anise stickiness. Not for the weak-hearted. Compares favorably to highly efficient double bocks.
SMUTTYNOSE BARLEYWINE STYLE ALE
Viscous coppery russet haze befits impressive full-bodied barleywine. Raisin-esque mouthfeel consumes sharp medicinal alcoholic blast, peppery hop dissonance and piney wood timbre to subdued earthen bottom. Red grape esters, cherry, pomegranate, and fig consume yeast-candied caramel-cocoa malting to maple syrup finish.
BROOKLYN MONSTER ALE BARLEYWINE STYLE 2001
HEAVYWEIGHT OLD SALTY BARLEYWINE ALE
Most definitely a slow sipper as its chewy raisin insinuation and sinewy molasses thickness woo pungent 9% alcohol content. Pale malts and spiced hops strengthen mightily robust English-styled barleywine. A bit musty, a tad dry, and not nearly as sweet or wine-y as typical American-bred counterparts.