Southern Tier Back Burner

We said before that we would be trying a lot more from Southern Tier, and the Back Burner is the next one up. I also believe that this is our first, maybe second, barley wine that we have had so this should be interesting on multiple levels.

It pours dark brown with a off-white head and and has a strong aroma of dark malts and fruits with a good presence of alcohol. The taste is far less strong than the smell and has a solid base of dark malts, fruit, with a warm alcohol flavor at the end. The smoothness is intoxicating (you see what i did there?)

Appearance - 3.6

Smell - 3.8

Taste - 4.0

Texture - 4.2

Overall - 3.85/5