Hill Country Beer Club
Stone Brewing Company
Old Guardian Oak Smoked Barley Wine (2013)
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Member Notes:
Still a little foggy with quite a bit of floaties in suspension. The aroma is sweet, with a flavor that's light-bodied after three years. I'm not experiencing much smoke at all after three years. I which I remembered to have had this fresh. It's a little thick-bodied, almost slippery. It's pretty unentertaining. I don't know why this is so drastically different from the regular Old Guardian. Perhaps it was mis-aged. - noss
Club & Brewer Notes:
The odd year Stone Old Guardian OAK-SMOKED Barley Wine is the Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine recipe tweaked to include oak-smoked wheat malt. The beer pours a deep amber, darker than the original version, and exhibits a faint smokiness in the nose. As with the original, the flavor is rich and malty, but laced with subtle smokiness due to the addition of the oak-smoked wheat malt, which accounts for 20 percent of the grain bill. The flavors blend well together, and the smoky tones complement the beer's larger-than-life character.