No brewery description of this beer was found; the brewery home page names it only in an awards list.
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Ingredients
Nothing about ingredients is published; the name hints at honey, but no source confirms it.
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Brewing Details
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Style Context
As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines put British-Style Barley Wine Ale at 8.5 to 12.2 percent ABV and 40 to 65 IBU with high residual malt sweetness, American-Style Barley Wine Ale at the same strength with 60 to 100 IBU, and American-Style Wheat Wine Ale at the same strength with 45 to 85 IBU and at least 50 percent wheat malt. No specs are published to compare.
Awards History
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Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Barley Wine or Wheat Wine
Silver
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Brewery Context
Rickety Cricket Brewing is in Kingman, AZ. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Brewpub.
Not Found: Description, Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked ricketycricketbrewing.com, ricketycricketbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
Field pass 2026-10-13: Further searches for the 2025 barrel aged vintage found no ABV, IBU, named hops or qualifying brewery beer URL. The previously excluded 2026 vintage was not reused.
The brewery home page lists "The Bees Knees (2025BA)" as #1 Wood-Aged and #2 Best-In-Show at the AZ Craft Beer Awards 2026. Punctuation lightly normalized. The BA suffix is read as barrel aged, consistent with the GABF entry name.
The brewery's beer page shows tiles mostly without names and does not list Bee's Knees.
The session's web search budget ran out before Untappd or press for this beer could be searched.
No 2026 GABF medal announcement was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: Searches found additional awards coverage but no specifications for the 2025 barrel aged vintage. The brewery's accessible Untappd menu lists The Bees Knees 2026, a different vintage; none of its values were transferred. No further accepted fields.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery home page names "The Bees Knees, 2025BA" (its dash replaced with a comma) among award winners, without a description.