From Melbourne’s Mountain Goat Brewery is the Barrel Breed: Barley Wine, an 11% ABV (according to Untappd) American Barleywine. We were lucky enough to drink from 1 of 300 limited edition bottles of this beer.
The Barrel Breed: Barley Wine won the 2015 Beer of the Year at the Australian International Beer Awards, which is fantastic, and while we think this is an incredible beer, because of its limited quantities, we think it’s a little sad that very few others will get to enjoy it.
It smells amazing and it tastes pretty special as well. This almost has a subtle, almost a toffee, caramel sort of flavour to it. It works really well.
– Paul
I really like it. It’s not mega mega sweet … This is quite lovely.
– Jeff
This is absolutely nothing like the Bad Boy Bubbly [also a barley wine]. I really quite enjoy this. I think it’s superb, I really do.
– Chris
It’s quite tasty. Definitely can taste the ABV limit, the 12.9 per cent, but it has a really sweet smell on the nose. I’m quite enjoying it.
– Ben
Barrel Breed: Barelywine by Mountain Goat Brewery was featured in Season One, Episode Twelve.