California Barleywine

Name: California Barleywine
Brand: Five Threads Brewing Company
Rating: 4.23 (131 reviews)

Five Threads Brewing Company

Westlake Village, CA

Tavour Rating

4.23

Style

IPA - Quadruple

ABV

17.0%

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A Note on This Beer

I hope you’re sitting down, because today’s beer is a serious jaw-dropper.

1. California Barleywine is not a Barleywine at all. The brewers only call it a “Barleywine” because of its intense, boozy strength and thick-yet-smooth mouthfeel. Instead, it’s a hop-packed Imperial IPA!

2. Actually, “hop-packed” is an understatement. It’s really a massive Quintuple IPA hopped with eyebrow-elevating amounts of Bru-1, Cascade, Centennial, Citra, Eukuanot and Mosaic Hops!

3. The brew comes from SoCal’s Five Threads Brewing, known for their love of high ABVs swirling in some seriously smooth flavors. True to form, California Barleywine clocks in at a belly-warming 17% ABV, masked with big waves of candied citrus and pine flavors.

4. Five Threads is also known for brewing very precise, tiny batches that rarely leave the state. The few craft fans who’ve tried it so far are blown away, calling out “so much fruity lollipop hop flavor” and wondering “how is this 17%!?”

If you weren’t sitting while you read those revelations, go ahead and take your time picking yourself up off the floor. Just don’t dilly-dally in hitting that “Get It” button. I’m sure it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that this incredible hopbomb won’t last long.

Rated 4.21 from early reviews on Untappd

Packaged On August 15th, 2020

Reviews

4.23

131 Ratings

Yldutsscott

4.0

For 17% way easier to drink than I imagined

DrZo

3.75

This is a surprisingly crushable mild QIPA. It has a good, faintly resiny and syrupy, smooth body and a pleasant sweet, subtly-ish fruity and hoppy, flavor. While it’s very easy to drink, I wish it had more flavor and depth to it.

Jklaroche

4.0

Tangerine transitioning to a subdued piney finish

henry319

5.0

Yuge, but super tasty and drinkable. Lots of flavor going on.

rdrzphan

4.5

Simply and incredible beer. Even if you do not care for IPA’s. This is money.

Levenrah

3.75

In similar vain as Dogfish 120, huge nose of hops with surprisingly smooth mid-palate flavor followed by pine finish.

mathieux68

1.0

A blasphemy to barleywine to call this hop syrup by the same name.

jsl37900

4.0

Swag

AJBeer9

4.5

Surprisingly smooth considering the ABV and IBUs.

CharlesFTVI

4.0

It tastes like something I would drink again, but 17 horsepower is way too strong for skinny ol’ me.

CleveBrewDawg

4.5

Starts off brown sugary sweet, then gives way to a deep hoppy bite. It’s ABV is well hidden in a tasty conundrum of complexity. Warms you up from the inside the deeper you go down this wormhole.

Hulk

4.0

Very smooth for 17%. Had to do a double take to make sure it was really that high of a abv. Great taste just wish it had a touch more mouthfeel.

DRod13

4.5

Pretty amazing and super smooth. Not boozy or hop forward. It’s pretty perfect

Tyler_Gates50

4.5

Wow this is crazy! This beer is so smooth and so hoppy at first, then finishes dry and bitter like a true west coast IPA, also smells like it’s 17%.......but tastes like it’s 7% abv

JAK408

4.5

First quintuple IPA that's for sure. This one is potent, but if you'd tell me it was 17 ABV, I'd assume you were joking. Masks it well and not without a fair amount of candy, citrusy flavor.