Aroma is primarily stonefruit, sweet fruit smells, some alcohol but only if you strain for it.
Wow. Flavour. This beer is really very flavoursome. FLAVOUR is what this beer screams while cold. Notes of toffee apple colour a wide progression of round flavours, it's well hopped to boot, feel like this is a tightrope balance they've somehow walked, mad skills. It's smooth without being heavy or torpid like these can sometimes get - indeed, if anything it is quite light bodied for the style.
The snag with this beer is an unexpected one - oddly, it actually gets a little worse as it warms, possibly due to its comparatively lightweight body. There's a bit too much red apple and watery red grape going on if you leave it, and the nose similarly worsens to reveal a few more stripped back nail polish alcoholic notes.
Quite a different barleywine and well worth a try.. impressive lightness but whether this is desirable is maybe a matter of personal choice. 7.5
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