Livery Bourbon Cask Aged Wheat Trippelbock

Formerly brewed at The Livery
Style: Weizen Bock
Benton Harbor, Michigan USA

Huge thanks to BBB63 for bringing this hand bottled elixir to Degarth’s Tampa Tasting. Pours brown with thin white head. It has a full aroma of bourbon and barrel aged woodiness with roasty dark malts and caramel filling in the cracks. The taste experience begins with a thick rich yummy mouth feel bringing in notes of creamy caramel candy mixed with bourbon and wood. Wow, great balance and mix of flavors that carry to the finish in a wooden boat slipping around in bourbon.

Huge thanks to BBB63 for sharing a handbottle of this. 2006 vintage. Pours a murky dark brown, with not much head at all. Smells of huge caramel and bourbon, some butterscotch, dark malts, and creamy vanilla. Lovely aroma. The flavor is of the same smooth caramel and bourbon characters. Some dark fruits become evident in the finish, along with the butterscotch candy. It is big on bourbon, but alcohol wasnt overly present. Really big on flavor, could sip this one for a while and be happy. Great brew, well worth the hype!

Thanks to Mike “BBB63” for hulling this brew all the way South.
Whisky and oak take this beer all the way home. There was little conception to me as to what the base beers style was, as the cask aging much devoured any style characteristics. That said, this beer held absolutely remarkably, regardless of a base. Vanilla, vinous notes of oak aging, hints of toffee, raisons, dates, figs and brown sugar still shine. The palate was supple and velvety. Beer finishes in tradition of a well aged whisky barrel; and I know that No angels share was lost here!

Handbottle shared by moejuck via BBB63. Dark brown pour with caramel tinges. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, and caramel malt. Flavors of toasted caramel malt, coconut, bourbon, slight vinous fruits, and vanilla. Thick body, boozey with a malty/boozey finish. Pretty good.

22 oz handbottle, via BBB63 of course! Pours a dark ruby to mahogany brown with a very small large bubbled head that faded quickly. The nose is bourbon dominated with lots of vanilla and oak, lighter alcohol. The wheat is there, as well as some yeast and coffee notes, but it’s all secondary to the bourbon. The flavor is really well balanced between the beer and the barrel. First, heavy thick Weizen Bock with great yeast influence, then the light bourbon, char, and oak emerge on the finish. Some alcohol flavor, but it’s minimal, though it does warm the chest noticably. Mouthfeel is full and thick with minimal carbonation. Surprisingly not cloying or sticky at all, I really thought it would be for some reason. Overall, pretty darn good stuff, a lot going on here.

Very dark burgundy colour with a hint of a head for only a moment. Woody notes with some alcohol and sweet malts and fruits in the aroma. Has a bit of a thick syrupyness to the palate but it’s really appropriate and doesn’t hinder drinkability at all. There is some bourbon notes that go along with the alcohol, making it a bit hot. I think Brandy would have been a little nicer. Otherwise the flavour has some big caramel malts with some fruit hints. This was really good, but overall it isn’t that terribly interesting. I think it deserves it’s position because of the drinkability and overall good taste but it’s not quite the complex world class beer I had hoped for.

22 oz hand bottled bomber from BBB63. Pours a cola black with a nice burgundy tint to it. No head. Aroma of sweet bourbon, vanilla, oak and maple syrup. Taste of bourbon, vanilla, oak and maple. Excellent !!! The bourbon definitely enhances this brew.

Recieved a hand bottle from, whoelse, BBB63. Loved every drop of this treat. Big time alcohol on the nose mixing with a great vanilla, oak, syrup (maple?), fig, raisin combo. So smooth going down, alcohol was potent, but it went along with this brew perfectly. On the edge of being too hot, but was not. Big caramel malt bite throughout as well. Delicous.