Emboldened rust-brown-clouded barleywine nestles chewy brown-sugared caramel-chocolate malting beside black cherry-pureed candied apple glaze and sharp citric tang, retaining emphatic bite. Cedar-chipped almond toasting and terse hazelnut niche calm down surging pine-hopped aggression. Rounded floral bouquet tempts dry bourbon finish, retaining strong bite. On tap at Ambulance, creamy brown chocolate sweetness gained pronounced black cherry, fig, prune and orange notions. Powerful ruffian never fails to delight.
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LAGUNITAS BROWN SHUGGA
Exemplary barleywine coalesces bittersweet spruce-hopped orange-tangerine tang with ripe melon, cherry, red grape, and fig-prune nuances, becoming medicinal as almond wine succulence secures alcohol-smitten oaken dryness. Chewy malt sugaring renders creamy maple, molasses, and cookie dough richness.
SIERRA NEVADA BIGFOOT BARLEYWINE STYLE ALE (25TH EXPEDITION)
YOUNG’S OLD NICK BARLEYWINE STYLE ALE
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.