Old Clam Digger
2009 bottle served in nearly appropriate glasses at the 28th annual East Coast Relocation Cellar Clearing Barley Wine Event. It is dark red and ready for the fight, but the fight ends in the 1st round with an obnoxious metallic grin. The flavor mimics the aroma, but there is more. A grim robot dips his flaming arm in a cardboard bath of sin. There is an oxygenated sense of helplessness in this beer that is gripping. It is sour, metallic and wet cardboard all at once. A magnificent display of how not what to look like. This is a barleywine that has no soul. No old soul..Or if it does, a rancorous and foul one. Sad to say, this barleywine does not age with grace, at least not this vintage.