Here's a new brew from a new company. Well...new to us. We haven't had too much from Flying Dog before. We weren't expecting too much - more like the beers from Magic Hat or a lower-caliber Dogfish Head. But, we were expecting interesting. And we got it.
Pours a nice amber color with a well-reproduced off-white head. It was a little opaque though - kind of strange for the color and type. The smell was a lot of alcohol - a tad off-putting. It smelled a lot like wine with small sweet fruits (apricots, raspberries) but not in a pleasant way. This beer tasted very...confusing. This is the only word we could come up with it. It tasted nothing like it smelled - more like a weak wine with only a fraction of alcohol that we initially smelled. The texture was kind of smooth but, again, it was confusing. It had a strange flow of flavors that went from velvety to alcoholic. Almost too alcoholic. Very off-putting, again.
We weren't expecting excellence when we had this, but we were expecting a little bit more. But, Barley Wine is a seldom-touched beer-type by most companies and you have to hand it to a company for trying. I think if they just work a bit more on body and hiding the overwhelming hit of alcohol, I think they'd have a bit of a gem in this beer.
Appearance - 3.7
Smell - 3.2
Taste - 3.2
Texture - 3.2
Overall - 3.3/5
what are you a bunch of douche bags? drink a real man's beer
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