Thursday, December 22, 2016

Ölbeat 159: Midtfyns Barley Wine

Brewery: Midtfyns Bryghus
Country: Denmark
Style: Barley Wine
Abv: 10 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is bright copper orange with a minimal vanishing white head. Aroma has sweet caramel toffee, cream liquor and vanilla. Taste starts with strong caramel and malt flavour. Creamy caramel melted into bourbon whiskey with vanilla bars fills the mouth. Towards the end sweet bitterness gets slowly added to the flavour. Aftertaste has sweet caramel, gentle bitterness and tasty liquor.

Deliciously tough and complex strongly bourbon-vanilla flavoured Barley Wine. This is a perfect brew for cold winter nights by the fireplace. After the two previous sessions with Midtfyns beers it has become my other favorite Danish brewery.

Ölbeat

The Danes brewed an awesome, symphonically complex and delicious strong beer. The Englishmen recorded an awesome symphonical and beautiful progressive rock song. The two ought to be paired with each other. 

Led Zeppelin: Kashmir (YouTube)

From the 1975 album Physical Graffitti, the song was written by John Bonham, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.