Iron Hill Bourbon Wee Heavy

Brewed by Iron Hill West Chester
Style: Scotch Ale
West Chester, Pennsylvania USA

Poured a reddish copper color with a small tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of bourbon, some smoke, vanilla, roast, and chocolate. Excellent taste... caramel maltiness, roast, bourbon, sticky mouthfeel, rather thin. But still an amazing beer.

Loved it. Anything Iron Hill puts into a bourbon barrel in my opinion is liquid gold to me. This slick brew offers up so much in the way of flavor you’ll be dizzy after the first sip with delight. I even had the girlfriend liking it! Vanilla and oak permeate every aspect of the brew in a superior effort. I’m at either Media or West Chester once a week.

Huge applause for Chris LaPierre of Iron Hill West Chester for this one. Do yourself a favor and visit this place. The beers just keep getting better and better. I loved the original Wee Heavy, and this one is even better...an upper echelon beer, a true beer for the ages, a beer that Russian czars, British royalty, or ancient buccaneers would have been proud to drink. Pours dark brown/blackish with a very creamy, nitrogenated light tan head. Extremely complex and intense aroma of malt, big oak and vanilla, figs, applesauce, caramel, fruit, licorice, and slight smoky roasty malts. Tastes malty, very fruity, figgy, with some finishing applesauce, oak, berries, licorice, and smoky peat. Extremely smooth and velvety on the palate, and the finish is exquisite. I’m honored to have rated this first, and even more honored to bestow a perfect score upon it. I couldn’t growler it due to the nitrogenation, so I’ll have to make regular trips to West Chester. Bravo!