Happy BARREL AGED BEER DAY 2025. Always on the first Friday of October. Yippee!! 🍻 Tonight's beer is a Barley Wine. Not barrel aged but the style could be BA. Looks translucent, deep maroon. Restrained carbonation builds a swollen creamy lacing up to one finger. The foamy cover retreats to the sides but still remains relatively impressive. The nose receives subdued aromas like date and raisin, followed by sweet dough. Predictable. The taste profile is easily recognizable for the style with dried plum, raisin, dough, a faint coffeeish hint and somehow unlinked blackberry. Alcohol is camouflaged but gives small warming pinches every now and then. However, layers are missing. The body is medium to medium-full. The finish lifts the alcoholic tang marginally higher and, hence, observable. The sensation left on the tongue is medium-full, deep, intense and lip-glueing. I can also spot a distant alcoholic hint, and it feels marginally warming. Still, fairly one-dimensional.

Luonteikas, vahvuuteensa nähden kevyehkö barley wine. Ei liian makea kuten joskus on. Väri on tyypillinen, syvän kuparinruskea ja hiukan samea. Tuoksu on aika mieto, maltainen ja hiukan alkoholinen. Yllättävän kuiva. Maku on makeahko mutta samalla hapokas. Hiilihappoa on todella niukasti. Pientä maitohappoista kirpeyttä on taustalla. Kokonaisuus on kevyt. Jälkimaku on aluksi katkera, humalointi on varsin asiallinen. Lopussa lämmittävä alkoholi tulee esiin ja pientä sokerista makeutta jää maistumaan suuhun.

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