Topic Archives: Barleywines
New Belgium Blackberry Barley Wine Ale is ready
New Belgium Blackberry Barley Wine Ale is coming to the brewery’s Lips of Faith Series. This release marks the first barleywine in the employee-owned Fort Collins, Colorado’s lineup.
The base beer is a barleywine brewed with fresh blackberries and candi sugar.
Smooth as the silk ascot you should be wearing while sipping this barley wine ale brewed with fresh blackberries. A trip under your nose reveals aromas of toasted oak, caramel toffee and burgundy. Sip with purpose.
New Belgium Blackberry Barley Wine Ale will be available in 22oz bottles and draft.
Style: Barleywine (w/ Blackberries)
Hops: Nugget
Malts: Pale, Munich, Caramel Munich, Oats
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: TBA
12% ABV
Ballantine Burton Ale emerges from brewing history
Pabst Brewing Company is launching Ballantine Burton Ale in time for the holiday season. This particular beer… has quite a history.
P. Ballantine & Sons Brewing in Newark, New Jersey brewed the original Burton Ale, that was never sold commercially. The barleywine style ale was aged from 10-20 years in American oak before it was ever bottled. Even then, it was given away as gifts to brewery VIPs. President Harry Truman is even said to have had been given a bottle.
The surviving Ballantine Burton Ale bottles have been traded or sold for sizable sums. Interestingly, tastings over the years have shown the beer to hold up quite well thanks to a high alcohol by volume, and strong hop bill.
The revival edition of Ballantine Burton Ale is brewed “sweet and strong” with a “robust” hop character, similar to the original. It has been aged in American oak barrels for months prior to bottling.
Ballantine Burton Ale will be available in major northeast markets in November and December in 12 ounce bottles and draft.
Style: Barleywine (Oak Aged)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Nov-Dec
Distribution: MA, ME, PA, DE, RI, VT, CT, MD
Release: November, 2015
11.3% ABV, 75 IBUs
P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing was founded in 1840. They were acquired by Falstaff Brewing in 1972. In 1985, Pabst Brewing Company purchased the brand.
405 Manly Barleywine Ale
405 Manly Barleywine Ale
Sebago Brewing Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Sebago Brewing Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Half Acre Quakerbridge Barleywine returns this month
Half Acre Quakerbridge Barleywine, the brewery’s annual ode to thankfulness, returns in November, 2015.
The brewery has not yet announced the exact release details. Half Acre Quakerbridge Barleywine was once known as Marty Stouffer’s Wild America Barley Wine.
…this weighty beer is a choose-your-own-adventure experience. Freshly plugged, this beer is a gooney 10% hop guster to bring your holiday retreat to its knees, but time allows this brew to round and settle into an ever maltier bomb of balance.
Half Acre Quakerbridge Barleywine is a draft, and 22 once bottle offering. Release details for 2015 announced soon.
Style: Barleywine
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft.
Return: November, 2015
10% ABV
Burnt Hickory Charred Walls of the Damned distributed for the first time
For the first time in the beer’s history, Burnt Hickory Charred Walls of the Damned is hitting distribution. Actually, the beer has already shipped.
Burnt Hickory Charred Walls of the Damned is the brewery’s barleywine, aged in both brandy barrels, and whiskey barrels.
The 14% behemoth was a souvenir option on the tour over this past weekend. Burnt Hickory tells Beer Street Journal that 80 cases have shipped, hitting distribution and shelves in Georgia in a matter of days.
Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged. Brandy. Whiskey.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Wax Capped
Return: Halloween week, 2015
14% ABV
Image via Burnt Hickory
Duclaw Devil’s Milk Barleywine returns
Duclaw Brewing’s Devil’s Milk is set to return again in 2015 on October 14th. The beer was first brewed in 1998.
Devil’s Milk epitomizes the American Barleywine. A medium bodied, amber ale with a thin, persistent, off-white head and a complex flavor profile with an assertive hop bill. Mesmerizing citrus flavors and aromas of the palate dominating hop finish and warming alcohol presence…
Duclaw Devil’s Milk is available in 12 ounce bottles and draft.
Style: Barleywine
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Seasonal release.
Return: 10/13/15
10.6% ABV
Image via Duclaw Brewing
