Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

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

Aroma starts out almost candy-like with the combo of caramel and a hint of vanilla and initial taste confirms this. Just a faint hint of bourbon in aftertaste. Much better than expected.

Bottle: Dark amber with an off whtie head. Aroma, woody, sugary, oak. Flavor, thin oaky vanilla. Just bland and icky. Tasted like alcho-pop. Ugh. Never again.

On tap at Taco Mac. This reminded me of a flat vanilla flavored coke. Caramel, sugar, vanilla all predominate. Lots of carbonation. I did not realize this was an AB product and it’s nice to see them at least make something that doesn’t taste like piss. As far as beer goes though this one is just ok. As I said I get more coke flavors than beer flavors.

Reddish pour with no head or lacing. The color is an artificially caramel. Vanilla predominates in the flavor, a thick mouthfeel with some bourbon notes in the aftertaste.

12 oz bottle via goldtwins (thanks!). Pours a clear dark amber with a large beige head. Nose is malty with some vanila and a hint of wood. Taste is somewhat sweet...some vanilla, some toasted grains, some mellow earthy hops. Thin mouthfeel, watery light bodied, high carbonation.

This beer had an amber color with minimal white head and it smelled like straight up vanilla. It tastes like vanilla all the way through and is overly sweet. The after taste is a slightly bitter vanilla flavor. Overall it’s not bad for a A-B product.

This beer suckered me in because I was doing "last call" at a local store. That night I would have rated it huge because my palate was wrecked. After all is said and done I think that if you blind tasted some one on this then gave them the same beer and then let them know that it was AB you would get 2 very different ratings.

I bought a 6 pack and was looking forward to trying. I didn’t notice the brewer until after I tasted how bad it was. I poured out the other 5 bottles.