Central Waters Brewers Reserve Bourbon Barrel Cherry Stout

Brewed by Central Waters Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Amherst, Wisconsin USA

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Smell is chocolate, cherry, bourbon, sweetness. Look is brown to black in color with a light tan head. Taste is good cherry, chocolate, and malts.

[Bottle] Pours a very dark brown color with no head. Aroma of dark malts, bourbon and bing cherries. Taste is mostly of bourbon and vanilla, with roasted malts and even some nutmeg or cinnamon. Somehow, the cherry notes and heavy bourbon do not mesh well in this beer. Decent palate. Light alcoholic warming in the finish, but the Imperial Stout character of this beer took a backseat to everything else that was happening in here. Worth a try, but not one of my favorites.

Bottle. Sweet cherry, chocolate and malt. Some roastyness but not very well balanced.

<b>In short: </b>An extra sweet carbonated watered down cherry flavoured hard-liquor drink. Annoying
<b>How: </b>Bottle 12oz, drank when about 6 months old. From Ughsmash, thanks a lot Jason
<b>The look: </b>Very dark ruby-mahogany (almost black) with almost no head
<b>In long: </b>Nose of cherry skin, blueberries(!?), bourbon.and one of those rum flavoured candy. A weird mix to say the least. Taste is aggressively annoying. I was first hit by a strong cherry sweetness, like a spicy cherry flavoured hard candy. Soon after the hard liquor flavours took over with everything from bourbon, rum and even some of these cheap sweet shooters from you local low-class dance club. There wasn’t much alcohol presence but weirdly a lot of hard liquor flavours. I can’t explain it. A rather strong cinnamon sensation just added to this confused mess. Also a rather strong cinnamon character. Barrels totally sucked the body off this one and with its aggressive carbonation it had the body of a syrupy soda-pop. No roastiness, no chocolate, no coffee. Hops? What hops? Finish has a this weird mix of cherry sourness and bourbon. All in all it tasted like a Flemish Sour with barrels out of control. Just like with the Bell’s Bourbon Barrel Cherry Stout, I don’t think cherries and Bourbon Barrel are meant with to go together. Drinkable in a wow-that’s-fucked-up-way. Just like my brother at DDC 10th anniversary party this beer is an incoherent mess.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye, this stuff is great. Pours thick with small, but thick, off-white head that goes. Aroma of bourbon barrel, chocolate, vanilla, and slight hint of cherries. Cherry shines throught in the taste. Cherry skinds, chocolate, barrel and a touch of sour. Syrupy with light bubbles.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Light black brown pour with no head. Nose is pie cherries and chocolate. (how can you go wrong with that?). Taste: tons of sweet cherries, oak, wood, booze, bourbon, vanilla. Its just like the woodford reserve reverse infusion cherries i used to make. awesome.

big thanks to bu11zeye for this one. black pour with some red in the light. nice smooth aroma of well balanced cherries and vanilla along with chocolate. nice thickness with the cherries coming through in the finish with a great roasted flavor too.

This poured black in color with a thin head that dissipated away quickly. The nose gave off aromas of bourbon, char and some cherries which are primarily hidden. In the mouth this is medium to full-bodied with nice concentration and wonderful balancing carbonation. The palate shows off the cherries much more than the nose. In fact the palate comes off as chocolate covered-bourbon macerated cherries. Yum.