[1] Review by Clash from Chattanooga, TN, USA who has tried this beer once. (3/25/2008 1:51:49 AM)
"This beer had a dark amber appearance with little head. The aroma is oranges, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor was rather sweet with some brown sugar, caramel, and light citrus notes. The alcohol was detectable but not overwhelming. Overall a pretty good barleywine. "
Aroma:
7/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
8/10
Flavor:
7/10
Overall:
8/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.7)
Sampled: Bottle
Value of this beer for its style: Not Sure
[2] Review by mmmmBeer from Edmonton, Canada who has tried this beer once. (2/24/2008 10:31:31 PM)
"2007 edition flip top bottle. Honey brown combined with burnt orange coloured body, an off white cap with great retention floats on top. Very sweet aroma slight wood, a hint piney hops, the aroma finishes with a slightly bitter smoke. Full flavoured with out being over the top, wood, toffee, pine like hopes are the most prominent flavours. As I drink walls of lacing have been left behind. After taste is clean and slightly sweet the mouth feel is nothing special. The flavour is big and malty in the true English style and it’s very drinkable but it not the bset I’ve ever had. "
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
8/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
6/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.6)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $0 Unit Cost: $0 per Pint
[3] Review by PaulCardom from Stittsville, Ontario, Canada who has tried this beer once. (1/13/2008 12:18:59 AM)
"I've had the opportunity to try the 2003,2004, and 2005 variations of this beer, although if truth be told, the variation between the vintages was less than I've encountered among bottles of Budweiser in the same case. The beer pours a reddish brown with a tan head. The aroma has malt up front, but a few more whiffs and you notice the extra spicy sweetness. The flavour is malty with less of spiciness found in the aroma."
Aroma:
7/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
6/10
Flavor:
7/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.4)
Sampled: Bottle
Value of this beer for its style: Not Sure
[4] Review by beercronic from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada who has tried this beer once. (1/3/2008 3:51:18 AM)
"Another disappointing Mill St. brew product but at the price this may be worth rotting under my stairs for a couple of years...
Poured out a nicely coloured clear syrupy dark gold going amber, no head or lacing, but I didn't really expect any. The aroma was fairly weak even over the hour it took me to drink this. Now that is not to say that this beer lacks complexity: weak mild dark fruit, alcohol, almonds (more of an Amaretto), faint chocolate ?, light caramel, honey.The taste is thick with a seemingly spicy and alcoholic flavour and a healthy dose of caramel (not overly sweet). Needs a more distinguishable complex flavour. The mouthfeel was quite thick with a large alcohol bite and the usual strong bitter and malty mix for aftertaste. I'll re-rate this in a couple of years, same batch."
Aroma:
6/10
Appearance:
6/10
Mouthfeel:
6/10
Flavor:
5/10
Overall:
5/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(2.8)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $7.62 Unit Cost: $7.21 per Pint
[5] Review by pootz from between Calgary and Waterloo, Canada who has tried this beer a couple times. (12/22/2007 8:27:14 PM)
"Brand new recipe in the 2007 release.
Impressive 500ml ceramic swing top bottle....numbered...this sample came from "batch" #7-557 of 560
Dark golden, small white sticky cap goes to a surface lace and laces up the glass sides ( rare for a Barley wine this strong)
Aromas of ripe succulent fruit, musty-honey and some wet hay..a bit of fusel alcohol.
The cara-pils malt in this is so decocted it imparts a tart honey-like sweetness just verging on cloying when mingled with the considerable hops used...the yeast used leaves significant fruity esters ( which I wonder will survive longer aging) but the hop mixture is significant and sits just below the honey-malt sweetness leaving me to hope the sweetness dissipates with age and the hops come up
For its young age this is quite drinkable now but I suspect a year or so in the cellar will do the best for this ale rather than longer aging.
"
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
8/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.7)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $8.44 Unit Cost: $7.99 per Pint
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