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Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

Winters Bourbon Cask Ale - Spice/Herb/Vegetable

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 Percentile 
14
overall
Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable

St. Louis, Missouri USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5542.48/5.02.48/5.0Winter6%14.4Lager glass, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
During even the coldest of weather, warm up to the smooth, robust taste of our Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale. Full of rich aromas that you find in the winter months, hints of vanilla and flavorful hops, this is a beer that is great for pouring into a large tulip glass and enjoying with friends around a fireplace.
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 rudolf (1734), Buffalo, New York, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Jan 1, 2008  
Rich copper, very thin head. Nose is roasty malt, cherries, almost light flemish red notes. Flavor is meladonins, cherries, fruit, light bourbon. Really sweet cherry/maraschino notes. Very artificially sweet. Toffee, cocoa & marshmallow comes through as it warms.


 Rynoplasty (500), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Dec 30, 2007  
Pours amber with a small off white head. Aroma is malty with hints of vanilla. Seems to have alot less vanilla bean taste than one I had last year at a bar, but still has a malty taste with a hint of vanilla in the background. A decent beer.


 PhillyHomeBrew (176), Forest Hills, New York, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/59/20
Dec 29, 2007  
Light amber ale with very little head. Smells like hops and hops only. It also tastes like a ton of pelletized hops.


 desurfer (1067), Pinellas Park, Florida, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/57/20
Dec 28, 2007  
Light reddish gold body, little head. Faint vanilla aroma. Pretty much tasteless aside from a cloying, artificial sweetness and a slight hint of nutmeg. This sucks, even before I figured out it’s an AB product.


 ebarnes (213), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/101/57/20
Dec 28, 2007  
12 oz bottle
Pours crystal clear red-orange amber with an orange-ish abundant head that dissipates fairly quickly. No or very little hint of vanilla in the aroma and certainly no bourbon. It really tastes like a watered down, slightly flavored ale. Half way through, it’s nearly undrinkable. Shoulda bought a single instead of a six pack.


 JoeinUccle (902), Brussels, Belgium
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/102/58/20
Dec 27, 2007  
A pretty bland, dark amber ale with a sticky-sweet vanilla flavor. The vanilla is too much, and the beer gets cloying about halfway through. Neither bourbon nor oak have any measurable effect on the flavor. A little bit insulting.


 DragonStout (1380), Pataskala, Ohio, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/510/20
Dec 27, 2007    Updated: Jan 3, 2009
Another AB product gone wrong.Please stop producing these beers if you cant get them right.Way too thin in the appearance and the flavor.No bourbon present or alcohol warming.Very dissapointed.ReRate on tap at Sea World.The fresh tap is better.More vanilla notes and bourbon.Still is thin but a much better brew fresh.


 zombywoof (355), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/57/20
Dec 24, 2007  
Bartender at Appleby’s poured me a tumbler to sample with the promise that it was a "pretty good beer". Didn’t know it was A-B and it wouldn’t have mattered. It had a sort of bourbon-like quality, it also had a artificial vanilla and paper-like quality as well. Thin body and a little sticky too. I ended up ordering a Guiness instead. I think I chose wisely.



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