New Holland Pilgrim's Dole - New Holland Brewing Company

ThickNStout

Georgia

4.05/5  rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

22oz bottle from New Holland Brewery (Holland, MI). 12.99. No markings on the bottle but it was sold as a 2009 vintage. Served in a Founders snifter. 

Pours a clearish red orange with one finger pale head. Recedes fairly quickly, leaving a few spots of lacing. 

Smells like an oak aged barleywine. Kinda strange. There's bourbon, bready malt, vanilla, straw, sugar and marshmallow. 

Flavor still much like an barreled barleywine. Bourbon, grass, burnt caramel, wood, lemon peel, leather, spice, tangerine and vanilla. Many layers and surprisingly other than the bourbon notes there's no strong alcohol taste. It really smoothens and opens up as it warms. 

Smooth medium thick feel with mild carbonation. Slightly oily. The 11%+ alcohol finally shows up in the long, dry, bourbony, bittersweet finish. 

A much more traditional barleywine take on a wheatwine. I'm sure 3 years of aging has calmed this one down a good bit. I'll give the other bottle I have another 2-3 to see if the bourbon fades and allows a little more sweetness through. Far from my favorite wheatwine but certainly worth a try. 

Serving type: bottle

07-31-2012 04:19:29 | More by ThickNStout

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Smell: Caramel, bready notes, bourbon. Bourbon is fairly subtle. Smells quite sweet. Smell is fairly simple, but quite good.

Taste: Similar to the smell, with tons of caramel and some bourbon up front, bready notes, and not a whole lot else. The bittering hops do a great job of holding the sweetness in check. I expected it to be cloying based on the aroma, but it isn't. Once again, simple, but quite good.

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Overall: It's defintely not a complex beer, but the flavors are quite nice. I'd definitely revisit this beer.

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