Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

Sneaky AB product. Are they too ashamed to put AB larger on the label? Bottle. Pours a crystal clear copper, with a thick, dense head. Some heavy malt tones, with vanilla as well. Smooth, with a sweet vanilla flavor. A bit too sweet and too much vanilla for me.

Draft in Oklahoma City. I asked the bartender what this was and who made it. She didn’t know and said it was Winter’s. After a quick search for Winter’s, the snow man tap handle confirmed it was an AB product. Poured amber with a fizzy off white head. Had a decent cotton candy aroma with more candy in the taste with some vanilla. I didn’t taste any bourbon and no oak either. Mostly just a watered down beer.

Not very good. Pretty watery, no hops of course. Some maltiness to it. It tasted like a slightly strange octoberfest to me. Sweet finish. Light carbonation and fairly drinkable.

12 oz bottle, born on Halloween 2007- poured transparent light brown with moderate carbonation. Aroma of malt, notes of vanilla and bourbon. Hits the mouth with a medium body, notes of fruit, vanilla, and bourbon- finish very lacking. Possibly AB’s best offering- and that’s not saying much.

A pretty sweet and malty aroma. Pours a clear deep red in the glass with little-to-no head. Flavor is sweet with vanilla, the slightly higher alcohol content is barely recognizable and there is a little bit of spice from the bourbon. A little cherry flavor, too. Nothing really stands out though, it’s all just mashed together. Better than Beach Bum, not as good as Jack’s Pumpkin Spice. 12 oz. bottle.

Ok,you get a quick whiff of vanilla,a molecule of bourbon, then nothing,taste is a strange mix of weak vanilla,pale malt and again a seed of whiskey,and sweetness,taste like a bunch of weak clashing flavors that don’t complement each other. Name of brew is downright deceptive.

Bottle. Dark amber body with a thick ring of bubbles and a thin film of bubbles. Nose-dusty, vanilla, light wood and bourbon. Taste-cherry, light vanilla, marshmallow, nutmeg, macroness, very light bourbon, slightly corny sweet. Not as bad as I was anticipating.

Bottle: Pours clear amber with small white head. Malty and vanilla aroma. Flavor is malty and caramelly with kind of a toasted vanilla bean flavor. No trace of bourbon or oak in the flavor. How its aged on cask and bottled i dont know. This beer is absurd. By itself it is a bland amber ale with vanilla.