Central Waters Brewers Reserve Bourbon Barrel Cherry Stout

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

This was a nice IPS yet it had alot of bourbon flavor to it and was real sweet.The cheeries were overpowering and yet it was kinda of different,I just had a sample on DLD and would like to try more and rerate.CHEERS!

thanks to fantomas! Cherry, woody, with hints of vanilla in the aroma. Pours dark brown with pink edges. Cherries come out right away, tart berries, then a huge oak flavor, bourbon, old wood, vanilla beans, with a slightly tart finish and little alcohol burn (not sure how much is in there but i taste it alittle)

Bottle at Noogfest Four-O. Pours cloudy dark brown with small beige head. The aroma is coffee, bourbon, cherry, and mild caramel. The flavor is slight cherry, milk chocolate, mild acidity, and distant coffee. A little bit of alcohol peeks through in the aftertaste. Enjoyable.

Surlysober and I split a bottle of this beer. It was much more kriek and much less bourbon-barrel stout than I expected. I thought this beer was quite good, but I felt unbalanced. It is black and stout-looking but tastes like a kriek; I felt the beer would have been improved with some additional roastiness to balance the cherry flavor. Nonetheless, I felt this beer was quite good, but good because it had a great deal of cherry sourness, not because it was a great stout. Make sense? It pours a dark color with lots of head. Aroma is very kriek-like in its smell, with some bourbon aroma once the sourness wafts past your nose. Flavor was of sour cherries up front, and was quite sour, with some roastiness and bourbon notes on the back end. Mouthfeel was smooth, but tart.

12oz, no date. Deep brown with a 1/2 finger tan head, fading to a thick film. Aroma has some tart cherries, oak and vanilla, a good amount of butterscotch and milk chocolate. There are also some hazelnuts. The roasted malts aren’t as dominant as I’d imagine with an imperial stout. Flavor is fruity, woody, and acidic from both of the aforementioned flavors. The roast is thankfully more prominant, though still not the biggest flavor. Medium body with light to moderate carbonation, though it is slightly thinner than I’d have liked. Never got sweet, never got bitter, either--more woody and fruity acidic if anything. Dry finish. A good amount of toffee is there. This is pretty much the Bourbon Barrel Stout with cherries added--go figure. I honestly don’t really pick up on anything else other than the cherries, though I like the original bourbon barrel more.

Bottle courtesy of grimreeser. Aroma of oak, chocolate, and cherry. Medium bodied but with more of a porter like texture. Flavor of roasted malt, vanilla, and tart cherries. Just a very slight hint of bourbon, joined by more cherries on the finish.

From bottle, blind #26. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Fruity and slight wineous aroma, subdued hoppy. Fruity and light roasted to vague sulphorish flavoured. Light dry wooden and fruity into a lasting mixed impression into the far finish.

12oz bottle, courtesy of Schutzenliesel. Thanks, Tom! Pours a dark, murky cherry-cola color; khaki-colored head with a reddish tinge and decent retention and lacing. Bitter chocolate and bing cherries in the aroma; kind of light. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: bing cherries, coffee, some sticky bourbon-tinged caramel upfront; pleasant amount of weight and viscosity and tart cherry / fruit character; decent bourbon-barrel aging backing things up; the stout character is a bit light. Lengthy, bing cherry and toasty grain finish.