Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Always a bit too sweet, it has some nice things happening though. The bourbon comes through and so does the vanilla, the latter overpowering the entire flavor. A little too sticky sweet. Smells nice, sort of like bourbon and vanilla. Palate is a little bit watery. A guy at a beer store told me he thought it tasted like when you leave a jack and coke out overnight and the ice melts.... that is not completely off base.

Bottle. Pours clear red with a large frothy white head that deminishes quickly. Smells a little spicy and malty sweet. Tastes like aloit of toffee and very sweet. Some hints of cinnamin. Has a little bit of cask aged flavor. Pretty good beer.

Bottle. Pours clear orange amber with a off-white head. Vanilla toffee nose. Body and carbonation tending to light. Vanilla toffee taste. Just a guess from the faint taste hints, but it seems like this beer might have spent the better part of an afternoon in a bourbon barrel. I’m not sure if that qualifies as barrel-aged.

AROMA Not a lot here. Some malt and vanilla and a little oak but all subdued. No hops noticed. APPEARANCE The color was a very nice Golden copper with no cloudiness. The head was offwhite about 1 cm but dissipated quickly with no lacing at all. FLAVOR Candy sugar sweetness noticed first with some of the malt and vanilla following. Some of the woodiness of the cask could be picked out but it did not stand out. No hop flavor or bitterness at all. Overall a bit watery and thin. Almost like it was over-filtered. PALATE Texture was decent and carbonation was good. OVERALL IMPRESSION There was nothing really offensive with this beer but it was just lacking overall. I have no problem drinking another, but Ive had better.

Pours a deep amber, no head. Aroma of a Scottish Ale - very malty with a teeny bit of hop. Vanilla flavor up front with a malty finish. Not bad.

Bottle. Never heard of this beer but picked it up in a mixed sixer. Pours a clear amber with a 2 finger fizzy tan head that faded fast. Nose is caramel malt and vanilla. Taste is must the same with a weird fake aftertaste. No bourbon cask qualities at all. Fairly flat mouth feel. Not very good.

DECENT AROMA OF BOurbon and paired with a decent body it is fizzy yet a tad slick. tastes like bourbon and some artificial vanilla in saccharin. not beery in any sense and served complimentary by a trio of miserable morons at seaworld orlando.
Earlier Rating: 1/27/2008 Total Score: 2.8
flavor of vanilla. sweet and a bit malty with a very low touch of hops. not bad and the beer was appreciated complementary at seaworld fla. it is a good beer at first sip. slowly that beer enjoyment loosens and it does so with every sip.

Pours a clear dark amber with a very short lived white head. Smell is thin sweet and metallic malt with some artificial vanilla flavor. Taste is very vanilla like and otherwise thin and malty with light bitterness and very watery. Thin vanilla soda like and not good. Drinkable, but highly artificial.