Freudian Slip
Evil Twin Brewing

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From:
Evil Twin Brewing
 
New York, United States
Style:
American Barleywine
ABV:
10.3%
Score:
85
Avg:
3.79 | pDev: 10.82%
Reviews:
111
Ratings:
528
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 11, 2022
Added:
Feb 05, 2012
Wants:
  22
Gots:
  112
Did you also at some point in your life get seduced by promising words like ‘probably (not) the best in the world’, ‘it (doesn’t really) work every time’ etc. This American Barley Wine says it how it is. It’s intense, attention seekingly hoppy and definitely your kind of beer. A beer with a big ego, drive and a huge thirst for recognition.
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

3.92/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
355 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 10.3%. Hazy brown colour, large to moderate off-white head. Aroma of oak, malts and raisins / other dark dried fruits. The flavour is sweet, malty and oaky, with dark dried fruits galore, immediately followed by distinct hops, ending in a solid and rather sharp bitterness that stays with you through the long aftertaste. Hints of anise and liquorice too. A very tasty American barleywine.
Jan 11, 2022
 
Rated: 4.09 by Avitra from California

Oct 21, 2019
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Reviewed by BenHoppy from Michigan

4.28/5  rDev +12.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Murky brown amber in color with smells of candy sugar, malt, and dark fruit. The mouthfeel is a bit thin but at 3 & a half years it is still very flavorful. I get flavors of hops, spice, black pepper, candy, baking cocoa, pine, floral, dark fruit, tobacco, and licorice that reminds me of Good 'N' Plenties. Overall this held up with age and amazed how hoppy it still was. Not boozy at all, very smooth.
Jun 12, 2018
 
Rated: 3.25 by jgunther71 from Illinois

Mar 08, 2018
 
Rated: 3.25 by krome from Illinois

Mar 08, 2018
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Reviewed by monkist from Hungary

5/5  rDev +31.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
I've had many barley wines before but this is the first "American" type barley wine - or at least the first that it claims to be so - and it is definitely different from the rest.
It is dense, intense and full of American hops, to an extent that when smelling into it I thought for a second that it is a San Diego WIPA. Stone does such IPAs that are this syrupy with hops and high in ABV. This one is perhaps a bit more on the barley wine side, slightly bit more boozy but 100% enjoyable, you almost feel that this is how you would want an IPA to be.
I am 100% pleased with this barley wine - esasily the best that I had so far.
Mar 03, 2018
 
Rated: 4.65 by SayBoom from Ukraine

Oct 13, 2017
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Rated by moose1980 from Germany

3.74/5  rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Unmistakably American in style; verging into TIPA territory. Like a caramel and resin melting pot.
Jul 12, 2017
 
Rated: 3.67 by Oleg85 from Russian Federation

Jul 11, 2017
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

4/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The appearance was a hazy dark amber to brown color with no head and a slight glazed over little bit of sliding lacing, interesting but different. The smell started off with an interesting sweet to glossed over bitter-esque grassy sweet apple, light cherry, sly cocoa, light dry coffee bean. The taste wraps the aromas together to blend and give off a slightly woody feel in the aftertaste leading into the finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly nice sipping quality about it. Carbonation feels good for a Barleywine (is this supposed to be English or American?), eh, whatever. Overall, though styles seem to be melding these days, American or English barleywine, well, let's just say this is pretty good for what it is.
Jun 23, 2017
 
Rated: 3.92 by axf4129 from Indiana

Apr 30, 2017
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Reviewed by hoptheology from California

3.27/5  rDev -13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A bold brown tea color with both dark brown and burnt orange hues. Buttery colored head, 1/2 finger tall. Nice legs, and it leaves wisps behind.

Nose is of medicine and peated malts, hints of smoke, caramel, stone fruit, old people, and faint vegetal aromas.

Flavor is complex, I'll give it that. Problem is, it's got some issues. Firstly I'm getting lots of grassy rosemary, which I'm not a fan of, following with semi-sweet bakers chocolate chips (only as they're swallowed on the back part of your tongue), chewing tobacco, waxy apricot, caramel, leather, finishing on lemon rind, grapefruit, the chocolate chips, wax, and as if someone spit their tobacco into my drink. It's so complex - but it's barely drinkable. Urg.

Feel is thick and resiny, with a moderate carbonation. A waxy dryness on the finish.

Overall, if you like drinking earwax and chocolate chips, this may be up your alley. For me, I think I'll move onto another beer sooner than later.
Apr 28, 2017
 
Rated: 3.68 by Spaceman_Jer from Colorado

Apr 25, 2017
 
Rated: 3.86 by mrfrancis from Kentucky

Apr 02, 2017
 
Rated: 4.02 by kbuzz from North Carolina

Mar 14, 2017
 
Rated: 3.93 by Gemini6 from Michigan

Mar 13, 2017
 
Rated: 3.94 by Coronaeus from Canada (ON)

Mar 01, 2017
 
Rated: 3.4 by Mikexw from New York

Feb 18, 2017
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Reviewed by brewskifan55 from Mississippi

4/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into a tulip glass.

A: Burnt orange, opaque, a light head, fragmented lacing. Lots of sediment throughout.

S: Apricots and bready malts with some caramel thrown in.

T: Apricots slide in strongly with caramel and piney hops. Robust and lightly bitter. The 10.3% makes itself known rather quickly. Not too sweet.

M: Medium with medium, creamy carbonation.

O: A decent American B-wine. Not steller, but not bad either. Another Evil Twin off my list.
Jan 10, 2017
 
Rated: 3.68 by Ohiovania from Ohio

Jan 08, 2017
Freudian Slip from Evil Twin Brewing
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 528 ratings