2015 Coles Barley Wine Competition Results 2/16/15
1st Place ~ Jack's Abby Brewing - Bride Maker
2nd Place ~ Cigar City Brewing Company - Leon 2014
3rd Place ~ Scuttlebutt Brewing Company - Scuttlebutt's Old #1 2009
Thanks to all participating breweries.
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Beer: 10&2 Barley Wine Barrel Aged Brewery: Fifty West Brewing Company Description: This American version of our Barley Wine has a sticky and strong malt flavor balanced by a significant hop schedule and a dry-hop. It sat for a year in bourbon barrels. Style: American |
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Beer: Apex Barleywine Brewery: Bomber Brewing Description: Aged for 9 months in French oak, single-use Cab Franc and Cab Merlot barrels, this American-style barleywine is both balanced and complex. Full-bodied, it shines a deep mahogany brown, punctuated by medium-high carbonation. Light notes of alcohol, treacle, and dark fruit fill the nose, hinting at the warmth within. A subtle, lingering bitterness is accompanied by a rich maltiness thanks to the use of over 15 malts. Style: American |
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Beer: Barleywine 2015 Brewery: Blue Corn Brewery Description: Our Barleywine brewed with Marris Otter, Vienna, CaraMunich and chocolate malts, balanced out by an abundance of Cascade hops. Style: American |
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Beer: Barrel Aged Naked Evil BBW Belgian Style Barley Wine Brewery: Hoppin' Frog Brewery Description: Aging in oak barrels added a memorable richness, that we seek to achieve with this barrel aged Belgian-style barley wine. Being the ideal celebration beer to release on our 5-year anniversary, Barrel Aged Naked Evil is fermented with both British and Belgian yeasts and aged in whiskey barrels for a lightly spicy twist on this old-world beer style. Sweet malt flavors will become smoother and rich dark fruit characters will build with time, to add a wonderful complexity and depth of flavor. Style: Belgian |
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Beer: Blood Moon Barleywine Brewery: Joseph James Brewing Company Description: Brewed under a Blood Moon to usher in the holiday season, this rich, chewy Barleywine is loaded with resinous Chinook hops. Aromas of pine, spice, and earth mix with biscuit and caramel from the Victory and Caramunich Malts. A true Winter Warmer. Style: American |
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Beer: Bourbon Barrel Barleywine Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company Description: Our American Barleywine is aged for 9 months in Kentucky Bourbon Barrels, which contribute notes of vanilla, coconut, and a touch of oak to this intense, yet smooth beer. A heavy handed dose of aromatic American hops add a spicy-citrus note that helps to balance the sweetness of the rich malts, which showcase flavors of brown sugar alongside rich, dark fruits. This is a beer to age. Style: American |
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Beer: Brewers Whim Barley Wine Brewery: CB Craft Brewers Description: Full bodied malt forward American Barleywine. Rich caramel-orange hue with a fine aroma of orange blossoms, ripe fruits. Floats across the palate with layers of malty sweetness, honey, a touch of granola and a slight alcohol presence. Balancing out with a few American classic hops that gently deliver floral and spice characters, as well as a smooth lasting bitter finish. Truly a sipper at 10% abv. for those dark cold winter days of Western New York. Style: American |
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Beer: Bride Maker Brewery: Jack's Abby Brewing Description: Named in honor of four weddings involving brewery staff, this is our 2nd take on a barrel aged lager wine. This 13% abv beer was brewed last winter and has been aged in bourbon barrels. While Bride Maker is the same style of beer as Baby Maker, the recipe was reworked. The main difference is the use of Special B malt to give it more color and body as well as notes of caramel, toffee and dark fruits. We feel that Bride Maker is a sweeter, more well rounded take on the style. Style: Lager Wine |
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Beer: Fathead Brewery: Nebraska Brewing Company Description: Ages for 6 months in fresh whiskey barrels, Fathead is a rich and full-bodied barley wine ale born of tradition, yet driven to uniqueness. Wonderfully warming with aromas of whiskey, vanilla, brown sugar, and fruits. A flavor profile big on malt richness and the subtleties of dark brown sugar. The whiskey barrel aging imparts a sweet nose that compliments without overpowering. Style: American |
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Beer: HERC C-130 Barleywine Style Ale Brewery: Flying Bison Brewing Company Description: The HERC is a big, yet balanced example of the Barleywine style. All British malt combined with several North American hop varieties create a bold and aromatic drinking experience. This beer is unfiltered, and unforgiving. Style: American |
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Beer: Highway To Ale Barleywine Brewery: Beer Valley Brewing Description: Highway To Ale Barleywine is a celebration of the pioneering spirit and long tradition of brewing in the great state of Oregon. Aged in the bottle for months before it is released, Highway To Ale is rich in malt character with a unique blend of citrusy, floral hops in the finish. Style: American |
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Beer: Jack Hammer Brewery: The Brew Kettle Description: A big malty monster with just enough Style: English |
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Beer: John Barleycorn Barleywine Brewery: Mad River Brewing Company Description: This vintage pours rubescent garnet in color with a tenaciously creamy head and ethereal carbonation. Ambrosial clove, cinnamon and grapefruit aromas lend to the evocatory flavors of nutmeg, cinnamon and grapefruit. A moderately peppery and medium/dry malt finish cossets the palette, promoting contemplative sipping and enjoyment. The ideal winter warmer, John Barleycorn Barley Wine is best served in a snifter in front of the fire throughout the Harvest Season. Ages extremely well with optimum maturity reached at one year and beyond.
Style: American |
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Beer: Killer Penguin Barleywine Brewery: Boulder Beer Company Description: Our extremely limited winter barleywine ale. Traditional winter seasonals are warm and comforting -- not this bird! Diving in at around 10 percent alcohol by volume, Killer Penguin uses over twice the malt as other winter beers. Aged to perfection, this beer doesn't ferment, it hibernates -- and wakes up with an attitude! Style: American |
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Beer: Leon 2014 Brewery: Cigar City Brewing Description: An English-style barleywine that is aged in apple brandy barrels. Style: English |
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Beer: Old #1 Barley Wine Brewery: Scuttlebutt Brewing Company Description: An English Style Barley Wine. Deceptively subtle, strong hints of raisin, cherry, maple, vanilla and black current all working together in pleasant harmony. Style: English |
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Beer: Old Crustacean Brewery: Rogue Ales Description: An unfiltered and unrefined Barleywine. Intense, robust, malty and dark. The cognac of beers. Style: American |
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Beer: Old Devil's Tooth Barelywine Brewery: Sockeye Brewing Description: Sockeye Old Devil's Tooth brings forth a complex caramel, molasses character with a smooth, luscious and long lasting mouth-feel. This vintage brew is one of the strongest of the beer styles. Rich and sweet to the nose, it is bold with hop character and a high alcohol content to be revered. It is as strong as wine, but because it is made from grains rather than fruit, and is in fact beer. Rich with a big rich profile from Vienna, Aromatic and Oat malts among others, it is brewed with plenty of hops, high in alpha resins so as to balance the sweetness, and provide a dry finish in true American barleywine tradition. This style is sometimes described as the cognac of beers. Enjoy in a snifter for full appreciation of this big, bittersweet brew. Style: American |
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Beer: Old Jackalope Barleywine Brewery: Tenaya Creek Brewery Description: Old Jackalope Barleywine Style Ale, our bold representation of an American-Style Barleywine. Despite its name it is very much a beer, meaning beer as strong as wine. Coming in at a generous 10.4% ABV, this beer is best served in a snifter or tulip glass and can age for months or even years! Style: American |
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Beer: Stow the Croze Brewery: Knee Deep Brewing Company Description: Honeyed amber in color with a light tan head, Stow the Croze is a dry-hopped American Barleywine. Our first wide release of Barleywine, Stow the Croze is very drinkable upon release but will reward several years of patient cellaring. Brewed with Maris Otter and Irish Stout malt, this beer is boiled for an extended time to develop distinctive caramel and light toffee flavors. Centennial, Cascade and Amarillo hops provide ample flavor and balanced bitterness, while the same hops plus Galaxy create magnificent aroma which blends beautifully with the malt base. Drink now or drink later, either way you win. Style: American |
2015 Coles Barley Wine Competition Results 2/16/15
1st Place ~ Jack's Abby Brewing - Bride Maker
2nd Place ~ Cigar City Brewing Company - Leon 2014
3rd Place ~ Scuttlebutt Brewing Company - Scuttlebutt's Old #1 2009
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