Barleywine Style Ale
22oz bottle from Wilbur's in Ft. Collins. Around $6 if I'm not mistaken. 2009 vintage. A: Deep red in color, leans a little more towards brown, cream colored head, right at half an inch, densely packed, nice lacing. Pretty decent looking beer. S: Green apple is the most notable thing at first, followed by some caramel flavors, and some citrus hop tones. Really lacking on this beer. Hot booze. T: Acetaldehyde bomb. Pretty much all I can taste is green apples even long after I've swallowed the beer. If you can look away from that there is a big caramel malt profile, and a nice hoppy bitterness at the end, but the over powering green apple flavor really hurts this one. Slightly astringent alcohol, hot alcohol flavors. Can't say that I'm impressed. M: Fairly heavy body on this one, alcohol heat in the mouth as well as in the chest. Medium carbonation. Hits those notes okay. Minus the astringent alcohol. D: I think this would be a pretty good beer if it wasn't for the overbearing green apple flavor, that absolutely doesn't fit with the rest of the beer. Hot boozey mess even after some aging. This is the first beer from Green Flash I've truly been disappointed with. I think they need to revise this beer.