Episode 080 – Thomas Hardy’s Ale, J.W. Lees 1999 Vintage Barley Wine – UNCUT

WARNING: Adult Language!!

We start out totally stoked to review two really cool beers – the Thomas Hardy’s Ale (an old ale), and the J.W. Lee’s 1998 Vintage barley wine! Both are aged and we love aged – if done right, of course ;)

However, right in the middle of taping, we’re interrupted – twice – by people in the bar! It’s never happened before, but it was graduation week in Philadelphia, so bar crawls were happening in force! We left the interruptions in the video because of the total randomness of it – enjoy :)

Back to the beers though, they both score big, and are intense beers. After you’re done watching the show, definitely go out and try these beers!

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  • peter
    I had a bottle of the TH ale vintage 05 last week. i have tryed it "fresh" and matured and i find it sweeter the older it gets. i think the english term is molasses.
    the older it goes the moore simular to port whine it is. like cassis leaf.

    hope you guys have had the oppertunity to try the old toms barley whine and ofcourese mikkellers big worse.

    cheers from sweden - Peter
  • castello
    Nice! for a 95 point beer I think you should have DRANK it! Then you could've used the same glass again. Maybe we're looking to get a spit bucket. Maybe a forty niner bucket?
  • We drank it. Fought over it. It was yummy.
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