Lost Abbey The Angel's Share (Bottle) 12,5%Style: Barley Wine
Date of brew: 2008
This beer was also part of a middle of the month release at Systembolaget at the end of 2009. Whisky distillers refer the evaporation of the spirits from their barrels as “The Angel’s Share.” So they named the beer after that saying. The beer has aged 6 months on oak barrels.
Bitterness------Sweetness-----Sourness-----Intensity-------Body
□□□□□□■□----□■□□□□□□-----■□□□□□□□---□□□□□■□□----□□□■□□□□Appearance: 3/5
Dark brown liquid with just a small ring of foam at the edge of the glass, that didn't leave any lacing.Smell: 8/10
Plums, dried fruit, milk, sour, nuts, wood. Taste: 8/10
Sweet, sour, dried fruit, wine, plums, berries with an alcoholic finish.Mouthfeel: 5/5
Smooth and very nice mouthfeel. Medium body with a pucking feel to it. Comment:
A very interesting and complex beer. There where allot of different flavours both sour and sweet with a combo of different aromas. If this is a barley wine (never thought of it while tasting) I would say it's more of an english style barley wine rather then the more hopped up varieties we usually get from the US. I think it would work great with cheese, preferable something tasty like a strong blue cheese and some sweet marmelade or similar. However it worked just great on it's own.Total: 4/5
Where can one get a hold of this beauty? :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big fan of barley wine. But I always buy them to try and see how they vary.
ReplyDeleteNicklas: It was available at Systembolaget in Stockholm (regeringsgatan), Malmö and Göteborg. Don't think there are any bottles left. But you should definitely try and go to Systemet at the beginning of each month and the middle (go to Regeringsgatan then).
ReplyDeleteYury: I love barley wines. I wrote that this one was more like an english barley wine. but in retrospect I would say it was more like a belgian barley wine... if that is even an existing type. Or even that it was more like a strong dark belgian ale. Like a strong quadrupel. Anybody have any insight on that?