Back here 🥰  Sunday is not a good day for beer drinking in this city since most places are closed. Tom Beers is open but they close at 9 pm., that gives me 1h 15min time. Okay, let me dive into the deep end. I can swim. This is a wine barrel aged Barley Wine. Sounds like a treat. The appearance is semilimpid, light copper. Very pale for a BW... The carbonation is limited – good! – and the emerging head is dense moussy with a height of less than half a finger. Melts soon to a thin lace ring but leaves impenetrable ornaments on the glass though. Too cold. Absolutely too cold. The scent is weak. Anyway, I can already pick raisin, caramel, orange marmalade and a drop of resin. After a while's warming, the raisin really intensifies considerably in the fragrance. And eventually also vanilla bean. Lovely! The taste is appealing but not particularly challenging: raisin can't be missed here. Neither caramel, yet it's fairly minimal. But detectable for sure. Interestingly, I can also get macerated grapes. The green ones. And a bit of cane sugar. A soaked barrel isn't that distant but I don't find it very easily. After several sips, I do. The last components are vanilla and dried apricot. Well, this is quite reasonable. I expected a darker and more complex product but this is surely different, not least for the color. Not as layered as it could have been but not too simple either. The body ranges somewhere between medium-full and full but it's not entirely full though. Alcohol and sharper barrel nuances raise their head in the end. Not much but anyway. The beautiful BW characteristics get confused with a still mild boozy slam. So, better not concentrate too much on the aftertaste when the actual taste is more attractive. The mouthfeel is medium-full, relatively thick, barrel aged, intense and slightly alcoholic. It's relatively slow and faintly slick. Butt still, 12.6 % and barrel aging should offer more. Btw, again, there's one CoolHead tapped here. Torille!  👍🏻