Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

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

Born on 10Nov06 - Clear red amber body topped by a quickly vanishing light tan head. The aroma is first vanilla then cherry and some light caramel. The cherry aroma gets stronger as it warms. The flavor is sickly vanilla, no real wood character just vanilla. The sweetness is all vanilla. Drinks like a vanilla soda. Not very good.

amber with a disappearing off white head.......hmmm basically budweiser and cream soda had a love child. it smells like the making of the child. it tastes like what was left of the sheets after the making of the child..... i guess the bourbon barrel and the vanilla bean were trying to watch tv in the next room over and somehow there good names got mixed up in this imitation vanilla crap beer train wreck. light and fizzy. not worth your time.

A nice clear amber pour with an off-white head that held up pretty well. It looked good! It was smooth, almost mellow. The first impression was a slight tingling on the tongue. The hint of vanilla was about the same as the hint of bourbon. Together they made a light, pleasant drink. The aftertaste was non-existent. It seemed light for a 6% ABV. I anticipated a lip-smacking, belly warmer and got a refr4eshing drink, nowhere near robust.

Ugghhhh. This taste like that vanilla flavoring my aun uses for cooking. There is a slight cappucino-type flavor melded in here and the body lacks any sort of sophistication I’d expect with an ale or a cask for that matter. I found this pretty undrinkable. I bought it out of curiosity-it was selling well at a bottle shop.

Bottled. Poured a crystal-clear medium orange with a short cap of beige head and some rising carbonation. Nose was certainly sweet with heavy vanilla beans on top of lightly-smoked caramel... some oak splinters and bourbon waft through. Caramel and thick vanilla steal the show in the flavor department, too... very faint bourbon and some woodsy bitterness to accompany the aforementioned sweetness. Medium-bodied on the palate and thicker at the back-end. Fairly smooth, but too heavily skewed toward the sweet side. Tasty, but I couldn’t drink very much of it.

Pours a plain amber brown. Smells of sweet vanilla and scotch. The flavor is plain vanilla that is sickening sweet. It finishes with more of a vanilla bean flavor.

Pours an amber color with a yellowish-tan head. Aroma is strong of vanilla and bourbon, chocolate, and caramel. Flaver starts of promising with vanilla and bourbon. Finishes with a strange after-taste. The more I drink the worse it gets.

An OK attempt by AB. You can definintally taste the vanilla as well as the bourban from the brewing process. Really thought it was good when I had it on tap, but didn’t like it as much in the bottle.