Tonight's beer: Old Schoolhouse Brewer's Reserve Barleywine
Starts out pretty sweet: caramel and molasses, dried fruits (dates, figs, plums, grapes), hints of baking spice and vanilla woven in. Earthy-peaty bitterness emerges through the middle, lingers into a long and casually slow finish. Dries out a little, eventually.
A bit thicker than medium-bodied, carbonation decent if maybe a little sparse. Lots of soft bready chewiness, some lingering stickiness. Eventually gently drying, with a soft boozy glow—pretty subdued for 10.5% ABV.
I remember having this a few years ago and liking it quite a lot. Turns out I still like it a lot, though it's clearly been in the bottle a while—it's astonishingly mellow. Intensely flavorful and nicely complex, a lot like balanced. Drinkable as hell, in a big sipping beer way. Poised and graceful and wonderfully well-integrated.
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| Old Schoolhouse Brewer's Reserve Barleywine |
Starts out pretty sweet: caramel and molasses, dried fruits (dates, figs, plums, grapes), hints of baking spice and vanilla woven in. Earthy-peaty bitterness emerges through the middle, lingers into a long and casually slow finish. Dries out a little, eventually.
A bit thicker than medium-bodied, carbonation decent if maybe a little sparse. Lots of soft bready chewiness, some lingering stickiness. Eventually gently drying, with a soft boozy glow—pretty subdued for 10.5% ABV.
I remember having this a few years ago and liking it quite a lot. Turns out I still like it a lot, though it's clearly been in the bottle a while—it's astonishingly mellow. Intensely flavorful and nicely complex, a lot like balanced. Drinkable as hell, in a big sipping beer way. Poised and graceful and wonderfully well-integrated.
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