14 Jan 2009
Victory Old Horizontal
Author: Gile
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Name: Gile
Site: http://corebrewing.com
About: My first beer was Budweiser. I was about 9 or 10, Dad and I were broken down and the side of the road and all there was to drink was Budweiser. So I had a swig of his, hated it!
I didn't drink beer again until I joined the Marine Corps. I was in Quantico, attending Small Computer Systems Specialist school, when I accidentally knocked a beer out the fridge and broke it. My buddies said now I gotta drink one! The rest is history. The broken beer was a Red Dog by the way.
Now days I am really a hop head that enjoys the IPAs [Stone IPA; Lagunitas IPA] and Douple IPAs [Moylan's; Hair of the Dog Blue Dot]. I also like Belgians [St Bernardus; Delirium; Three Philosopher's] a lot! I also like the Stouts and Porters [Black Butte] as well.
I enjoy going to breweries to sample as well as going to pubs and taverns. I also like enjoying beer with friends and bouncing ideas off of other intelligent people as well. Last time I was at O'Brien's I was shooting the shit with a couple of random strangers.
I hope to someday do a pub/tavern crawl across Europe. That's all I want. Simple.
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Name: Old Horizontal
Brewery: Victory
Overall Rating: A+
Style: Barleywine
Serving Style: Bottle 12fl oz.
ABV: 11%
IBU: Unknown
Price: $
Appearance: Dark amber with plenty of carbonation some cloudiness with some floaties. Head went away fairly fast, leaving an almost clean glass.
Aroma: Smells sweet with hint of alcohol content. I can almost taste the barley with a good whiff from this one!
Flavor: Initial taste is like an oaked taste with some bittering hops in there. Has kind of an alcoholy after taste but it doesn’t linger. What does linger is the taste of oak, barley and malts. The taste lingers but not too long, leaving you yearning for another drink.
Body: It is a full bodied ale with a good amount of carbonation. Not a lot of continuous carbonation while it is in your glass. A bubble here and there every once and a while.
Enjoyability: This is a very tasty barleywine. One that isn’t over powering on any one flavor or the alcohol content. I’d like to just sit and sip this but it too tasty to leave it sitting in the glass for very long. I do want to find this in a 22oz of this for the long term enjoyment and effects [especially the horizontal effect!].
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