Pretty Things Our Finest Regards
Pretty Things Our Finest Regards
Rated 3.571 by BeerPals
Brewed by Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, United States
Style: English Barleywine
13.5% Alcohol by Volume
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From Pretty Things to you this winter season: "Our Finest Regards". Two years into our project and we’re grateful and amazed that so many people love and support great beer these days. The fact that we’re still here is a credit to you all. But for the question of primary importance: What is the beer? Well, it’s our Pretty Things barleywine. Inspired by malted barley, a tribute to the barleycorn. Yes, it’s simple, but that’s what barleywines are all about. Ever since brewing in England, Dann has dreamed of making a barley-focused beer using the malts of Yorkshire (and never hesitates to plug his favorite: Thomas Fawcett & Sons). Give barley a chance and this mysterious little grain can do grand things! To get the density of sugars needed for this sort of beer, we employed "double mashing". The brewhouse that we work on can only get to maybe 18 plato for a single running of wort: but we wanted 27 plato! So we combined two brews by running wort into the kettle and then using it to mash in the second batch. We don’t take credit for this idea. We’re certain it has been done many, many times before. But it wasn’t until Will Meyers (the great Cantabridgian Cervecero) brought this method to our attention that we realized we could brew a barleywine of proper gravity... (he never told us that he hadn’t actually performed this sort of brewing before!). Anyway, it works!! We fermented with a blend of English and Belgian yeast strains that seemed to work quite well together fermenting down to 4 plato in short order (that’s 13.5% abv if you’re counting). Expect an aroma of juicy sultanas, malted milk balls, and alcohol deliciousness. It’s got a medium body and is a little more spritsy than we’re sure the Brits would like. Serve over 50 degrees fahrenheit in a stemmed glass. Very suitable to drink this year or next, or even the winter after that!
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| Overall Rank | 2239 |
| Overall Percentile | 96 |
| Style Rank | 52 of 467 |
| Style Percentile | 88.9 |
| Lowest Score | 3.7 |
| Highest Score | 4.3 |
| Average Score | 4.000 |
| Weighted Score | 3.571 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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4 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
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Aroma - a complex aroma with caramel, chocolate, ripe dark fruit and overripe banana.
Appearance - a dark ruby red/brown body, hazy, thick 3-finger off-white head with nice retention and above average lacing
Mouthfeel - full bodied, medium carbonation, silky and coating
Flavor - the best thing about the beer. Complexities abound here. Caramel, chocolate, banana, alcohol, medium-high sweetness, and dark fruits.
Overall - well worth the money. Our Finest Regards exceeds expectations on a barleywine, and this one would do well with some aging. In 5 years...yowza...this would be something with just a little oxidation. -
Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Dark cloudy brown pour, short head, little lacing. Huge sweet malty and ripe pitted fruits - date, figs, prunes - in the flavor and nose, almost overly sweet, with a rum-like quality and an abundance of hearthy hops to cut some of the syrupy sweetness. Big and sweet for certain.
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Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
Deep murky brown pour with a lot more carbonation than I expected for a brew of this gravity. Strong alcohol phenols on the nose with a distinct smoked malt on the finish. Massively thick and complex. Sweet and reminiscent of molasses of front with a finish of burnt caramel, toasted raisins, and dried figs. Wonderfully long finish - so malty you'd think you were drinking a milkshake.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
I'm still not sure what to think of this one. Definitely not what I was expecting, and it has it's fauls, but damn, was it unique (and tasty). Tastes and smells like a hybrid sweet english barleywine and a quad or bsa. sweet, almost syrupy flavor and feel. somehow is not cloying, the body is great, but it's also a little on the strong side, and smells and tastes a little too hot as it warms. potentially an epic beer, ends up being very good.
