Treblehook barley Wine is a fine, flavorful offering from Woodinville, Washington’s Redhook Ale Brewery. The beer starts and ends on a slightly sweet biscuit malt note. In between, the beer shows rich and flavorful malt flavors.

Treblehook pours a honey brown with a tall tan head. Its aroma is of toffee malt with distinct citrus hop notes of orange and grapefruit.

This barley wine has an initial flavor of slightly sweet biscuit malt on the tip of the tongue that immediately segues to a moderately intense malt flavor at mid tongue. At mid tongue, the malt is rich – showing dark fruit flavors of fig and light raisin -  but not really sweet.

Although the malt flavors are deep, they are buoyed by nice citrus hop flavors that keep the malt from tasting murky.

At the back of the throat the hop flavors amp up, turn rather intense and piney.

Treblehook’s finish is of medium length and keys on residual biscuit malt flavors and piney hops. It is in the finish this barley wine’s 10.1% alcohol by volume shows as a soothing warmth.

Trebelhook is recommended as well done, flavorful barley wine that gives almost equal weight to both malt and hops. It is listed at 52 IBU and I consider it full flavored and full bodied.

Treblehook was purchased at Miller Liquor in North Sioux City, SD.

-Tim Hynds

Some interesting new beers have landed at Miller Liquor in North Sioux City, SD:

Treblehook, a limited-release barley wine from Redhook Ale Brewery in Woodinville, Washington is now in stock.

Also in is Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.’s Cherry Oak Doppelbock, This beer is the the Portland, Ore., brewery’s “limited release #1.”

As always, Sioux Brew encourages you to support all local retailers who are making an effort to stock quality beers.

-Tim Hynds