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RATINGS: 26   MEAN: 3.38/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.26   SEASONAL: Winter   IBU: 78   EST. CALORIES: 270   ABV: 9%
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Smokey and smooth, The Tea Party is a barley wine made with 3 different styles of tea that were amongst the types dumped during the Boston Tea Party. Imparting a smokiness up front, the tea also gives the Tea Party a smooth and complex flavor.


3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
jflopsu (866) - New Jersey, USA - JAN 10, 2015
Pours a hazy rust orange. Has a unique woody and smoked aroma. Has an incredibly strong woody and smoked meat taste unlike any beer I’ve had. Lingering smoked meat taste.

2.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
AirForceHops (4820) - Epping, New Hampshire, USA - JUL 26, 2014
Draft @ Cape Ann. Cloudy copper pour in a sample glass. Nose smells like a smoked beer with hint of herbal tea. Malts mixed with smoke.

Let me start off with saying that I don’t like smoke in my brews. German Rauchbier will never be a style I choose to drink. This tasted much more like a smoked beer rather than a Barley Wine. Smoked bacon, cured meat with a like herbal tea mixture under this smoke. The finish is day old camp fire ashes. The brewers deScription does say it is smokey but this is the farthest thing from a barely wine I have ever tasted. Sorry I just don’t enjoy day old campfire and smoked meat in my brew. That is what you will find here.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
beerbill (3574) - Laurel, New York, USA - MAY 6, 2013
On draught at the brewpub back in January. Arrived a hazy antique gold with a white head that left partial lace. Pleasant aroma of caramel and malt. The flavor is caramel and malt with some mild smokiness. Smooth on the palate. Fairly full bodied. Very good.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
pushkinwow (2306) - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - OCT 11, 2012
On tap at the 20th Vermont Brewers Festival. An interesting beer for sure. Amber with a biege head. Peat, tea, grains, earthy, nice toasted malts, bit of vanilla. Low carbonation, moderate body, bittersweet much like a nice steeped tea with a hint of honey (although more vanilla in this case). Worth trying for sure.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
blipp (7250) - San Diego, California, USA - SEP 28, 2011
Draft. Pours orange with an off white head. Light floral hoppy aroma with sweet malts ans a hint of smoke. The flavor has toasted malts, light smoke, and light floral hops. Good stuff.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Braudog (6048) - Phoenix, Arizona, USA - AUG 25, 2011
Draft at the brewpub. Amber-orange beer with little carbonation or head. Initially sweet, this then backs into a unique earthiness from the tea. The more I tasted, the more it’s like steeped tea. Sounds odd, but the warming alcohol behind it works. Pulled off well. (#4228, 8/24/2011)

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
porterhouse (1580) - Boothbay, Maine, USA - JUL 26, 2011
(Draft @ brewpub) Served in a heavy goblet. Pours dark amber, mostly clear. Barely any head. Nose of slightly toasted caramel and a bit of fruit. Medium-heft, fairly smooth, lightly syrupy. Taste is predominated by smoke from fore through finish overlaying sweet dark caramel/toffee and a bit of fruit. Barkeep says the smokiness is produced by the tea. Kind of an "out there" barleywine, atypical.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
hayduke (3926) - Eureka, California, USA - MAR 19, 2011
A draft pour at the Cape Ann Brewpub. Poured a red to amber color witth a light tan head. Nose is roasted malts with some vanilla and burnt wood. Medium body. Flavor is very smoky, with some ripe fruit. Interesting, mostly for the smoke.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
jimhilt (2480) - Bow, New Hampshire, USA - MAR 16, 2011
On tap at Cambridge Common, $5.95 for a 10oz pour. Pours a two finger white head that fades quickly leaving some lace. Light-medium carbonation and light-medium bodied but seemed a little watery. Nose is tea and flavor is strong dark tea with a late hint of caramel.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Christian (11902) - Odense, DENMARK - JAN 11, 2010
On tap at Oliver Twist. Hazy copper with a tiny off-white head. Aroma of malt, ith smoke and a hint of peat (I didn’t know the smoke came from the lapsang while drinking it). Sweet and sugary but still complex malt flavour, with a little peaty smoke. I have wanted to brew with lapsang. Now I know it’s possible!


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