Green Flash Barleywine

Our American-style Barleywine undergoes a three hour boil to intesify the caramel malts and the enormous Pacific Northwest hop charge. The result is a rich, estery brew with toffee notes and citrus hop flavors layered throughout. Enjoy this brew fresh today or lay it down for aging to see how the flavors of each vintage evolve.

3.7

981 reviews

San Diego, United States

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3.7 Pours a nice deep dark golden brown. Aromas of hay, hop flowers, carmel malts, candy sugar, honey. Flavor: oak, caramel malts, grapefruit, light hops, brown sugar, and alcohol

4.5 Barwa mocnej herbaty. Piana solidna i trwała. Cudowny aromat: cytrusy, iglaki, kwiaty, maliny, owoce, kremowe nadzienie waniliowe z wafelków, kiwi. W smaku silne nuty ziołowe, lekkie igły sosnowe i cytrusy, przypalony karmel, owocowy miks. Silna goryczka, dobrze równoważy się z likierową słodyczą

4.5 Had a bottle cellared for two years. Pours deep copper with a quick white head. Nose is a delicious hit of barley, caramel, floral hops, and a little booze. flavor is extremely well balanced and among the best beers I’ve ever had. Finish is long and almost tastes like yellow cake. Great beer.

4.1 From the 2011 batch. Cloudy amber-brown pour under a long lasting, foamy tan head. The aroma brings out a lovely barley malt sweetness but there is a fruit ester in there too. A juicy fruitiness. The body is medium of better. Any alcohol flavor that was there 4 years ago has mellowed but the toasted caramel malt sweetness mingles with a mild fruity taste and a mild to moderate bitterness that seems a tad smoky.

4.5 A little on the hoppy side but still a good strong barley wine. Easy to drink. Has that hop after taste similar to a home brew hop.

4.2 On tap at City Tap. Pours dark reddish brown with tight, thick, off white head. Aroma is dried cherries and toasted bread. Flavor is sweet to start with bread and dried fruit. Then bitter piney hops take over. Finish is long and bitter. A perfect American barley wine with European nuances. Very good.

4.4 Big bottle at Mackan, thanks! Vintage 2013. Deep amber with beige head. Aroma hoppy, toffee, marmalade, caramel, nondeScript hops. Taste is hoppy, bitter, caramel, medium to high sweetness and high bitterness. Nice!

4.3 2007 version on keg at Craft heads. Big caramel, cherries tons of milk chocolate sweet malty nose. Mildly sweet so integrated body. Thick body. Excellent and has aged so so well.

3.8 Bottle. Sensoric. Deep red almost brown with medium, densed, ligh brown head. The head retention is not co bad, as well lacing. Heavy malty aroma - mainly caramel and toffee. In the second row some medium fruity and piney notes, but partly covered by heavy malty profile. The taste is highly bitter, the real hop bomb. The bitterness is long and intense, little balanced by malty sweetness. Full body, sticky and oily texture, average carbonation. Finish is bitter and hoppy. Alcohol warming is quite recognizable.

3.5 Bottle@Brewdog. Copper color, off-white head. Strong, sweet aroma with raisins, hops. Smooth, surprisingly dry and bitter flavor with a lingering, hoppy finish. Caramel, orange peel. Full body, medium carbonation. American style barley wine. Nice.

4.1 650ml bottle. Unclear orange amber color with beige head. Malty aroma, caramel, fruity, hoppy piney. Sweet and bitter taste. Medium to full oily Sticky body with soft carbonation.

3.8 Ale House, Chelmsford, bottle share, 5th August 2015. Caramel on aroma. Sea salt aroma. Burnt toast. Taste is moderate funk, sea salt, some pepper and brett.

3.8 Hazy red. Big malts, fruity with oxidation notes, big grassy bitterness. A bit brutal, but still good.

3.9 Very dark ruby colour, beige head. Aroma of caramel, toffee, malta, dark fruits, orange. Taste is medium sweet, fruity flavour. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Pretty good.

4.8 66 cl bottle at Irreale, Madrid. Pours cloudy dark amber with fawn head. Aroma is extremely complex and intense: Pedro Ximenez, figs, dates, quince custard, strawberry jam, ripe banana... Taste is complex as well. At once fresh, metallic, sweetish and very bitter, with a long aftertaste that lasts long, long, long.

3.9 Bottle 66cl / Botella 66cl. Vintage 2.012. @ Maquila Bar A: Dark amber / Ambar oscuro. T/S: Raisin, alcohol, caramel, sweet / Uvas pasas, alcohol, caramelo, dulce.

3.9 botella. @El Cabanón, Avilés 23/05/2015 Color ambar, espuma blanca, aroma caramelo, malata, sabor dulce, cuerpo alto

4.3 Amber colour, nice fluffy head on top and lots lacing on the glass. Aroma has caramel, nuts, eucalyptus! Pine and grapefruit Bitterness. Taste has lots of sweet malts, caramel, eucalyptus also! Bitter Pines and grassy hops. Full and round body and medium-to-high carbonation. Excellent barley wine. Vintage 2012

3.9 2 year old bottle. Didn’t expect much but me and my buddies like it a lot. Big toffee aroma, lots of pine and flowers. Sweet taste and a nice long bitterness in the aftertaste.

4.1 Mørk amber farve med lyst skum. Lukt av honning, karamell, rosin og sitrus. Smak av honning, karamell, rosin og sitrus. Fruktig og fint karbonert. Lokal øl-smaking på Bryne; 3xUntappd, 2xRateBeer & 1xNeutral.

3.1 Dirty Brown body, khaki head. Aroma has caramelly cpokie dough, fudge and bit fruity citrus hops. Flavour has some dull fruitiness. more floury malt like. Very harsh and bad aftertaste.

3.6 Dark orange colored beer with a light brown lasting head. Aroma includes malt, caramel, fruits and liquorice with alcoholic notes. Flavor is a combination of sweetness and bitterness with some alcohol traces. Thick body with a balanced carbonation and a long semi-sour end.

3.8 Bottle. Brewdog, Leeds. 2013. Clear, burnished copper colour. Has a film of slow moving, thin, beige head. Leggy, and viscous. Dense, dank, boozy, surprisingly hoppy aroma. Toffee malts. Ointment. Petrol. Flora. Oily herb. Spice. Heady, and full. Drinks all of that. It’s oozy, chewy, oily, and very tasty. Finishes long, spicy dry, and spicy bitter. Big beer, yet easy drinking.

4.1 Peachy amber colour, creamy head and some haze in this beer. The nose suggests barley wine with mellow hoppiness in excess of an English equivalent. Peachy orchard-fruit and fresh alcohols lay over the top of deep complex maltiness. The body is thick and oily and offers lush fruits, dates, caramel and peaches. It has wonderful depth and maturity that suggests flavours of sherry or brandy. It gives a full mouthfeel and a sense of lingering wonder. Some tumeric spice on the finish. Delicious.

3.7 Vintage 2011. It poured a clear dark amber color with an off-white head. The aroma was malty with some caramel, raisins, licorice and citrus hops. The taste was of caramel and roasted bitterness. It had a medium to full body with a light sticky texture. Good stuff.

2.8 Syrupy caramely aroma with hints of hops. In the taste the bitterness overthrow the maltiness which shouldn’t be in a barley wine.

4.0 Bottle 0,65l, clear amber color with small white head. Strong aroma of cherry brandy, raisins honey but also with some notes of cooked vegatables. in taste medium sweetnes, good balanced with medium sourness and bitterness from amarican hopps in the end. Good drinkable, but alcohol could be better hidden.

4.4 Dark amber with small off white head. Sweet honey aroma. Rich bitterness mixed with honey sweetness.

4.7 This one is pretty impressive. Hazy brown colour, big head with a full lace and crown that leaves forever. Smell of Pine, allspices, cardamom or clove, citrus, brandy, tobacco, wood (oak?)... Not thick and not light in the palate, not too mauch carbonation, it feels really good. Taste is just like the aroma, maybe with some hints of chocolate and dark fuits and a bit more sweet, though bitterness and sweetness come and go on the same level. Very good indeed. Note: tasted one aged at home and it developes and interesting hote of hops.

3.6 Poured from 22 oz. bottle after cellaring for over 22 months. Murky, dark copper with a 3-finger khaki head and very good lacing. Aroma of caramel, booze, citrus, pine resin, orange and bread. Taste of citrus, pine resin, caramel, toffee, whiskey, floral hops and plums. Full body high/medium carbonization. This is a big beer. The hops, alcohol and maltiness all come through strongly even after nearly 2 years of aging.