I was very excited to find the new Sam Adams small batch line in my area, and I decided that the first one I would try would be Griffin's Bow. It seemed to have everything going for it: oak aged and being not only a blonde ale, but a barleywine as well! My first sip left me very disappointed. This beer is way to complex. The amount of flavors crammed into it made it highly undrinkable. They add sweet flavors of honeysuckle and burnt sugar with the citrus flavors of pineapple and grapefruit, and for some reason throw some toffee in there too. On top of the overpoweringly strange flavor, the aftertaste left a weird cottony feeling in the back of the throat. Griffin's Bow has made it onto the very short list of beers that I would never buy again in my life. But it gets at least one point for not making me want to violently vomit it back up.
1/5
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