Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

Amber/copper, with a tan head. Aroma is malt, vanilla, and sugar. Flavor is sugar and vanilla. Almost more like soda than beer. Just not very good.

copper with a medium sized off-white head. lager aroma with hints of vanilla. smells like cream soda. flavor is a artificial vanilla flavor with a grainy lager. no woody oaky notes. no thanks.

Pours a bright transparent copper ruby with a thin, short-lived off-white head. Aroma of slightly sweet malt and some sugary vanilla. Body starts with a touch of malt, butterscotch and some mild oak (without much bourbon) and a drier, earthier finish with vanilla and toasty, nutty flavors. I know it’s made by Anheuser-Busch, but it’s not really that bad.

I had this on-tap while waiting for a flight at the Cincinatti airport. Appearance is a light coffee color, with a head that could have come off a can of Sprite. It was very fizzy, but with virtually no head. This beer smelled like a Boston Creme doughnut to me...sweet with a creamy odor. Mild, but actually kind of pleasant. The taste was of very strong vanilla notes, but they didn’t feel like they belonged. The taste was very chemical in nature, as if this beer was brewed to be bland, and then caramel color and vanilla flavoring were added. Mouthfeel was very thin, a bit like a diet pop. This beer was drinkable because it was so thin, but I didn’t really have much desire to have another one.

Bottle. This accually is not a bad beer, it just has way too much artificial vanilla flavor to it. Deep orange in color with fizzy tan head. The flavor was malty and smooth but the vanilla flavor started to make me sick after awhile. Taste like alcoholic cream soda.

This isn’t great, but I would love to sneak it into a blind tasting and see how it does--it is definitely suffering from an anti-Bud mentality. On tap at Barleys. The pour is a see through golden brown. Tangy vanilla scent from the glass, but not a lot of aroma overall. Medium palate. The flavor starts off with vanilla and some roasted malt. It is a littel watery and has no real bourbon flavors to speak of. However, it is not a terrible beer at all--and I will agree with Metalhead’s comments below that this is better than most of the stuff rolling out of Sam Adams brewery.

I can’t understand why so many people hate this. Perhaps because it’s the "Bud" brewer. Cut em some slack. It’s deep amber with a mild head,aroma is mild malt and vanilla(bourbon cask nowhere to be found in aroma or taste). Flavor is mild sweet malt and vanilla. Decent enough mouthfeel for a macrobrew. actually pretty smooth.Better that 90% of the Sam Adams stuff so I give em an E for effort. Goes well with honey roasted nuts. Not bad for grocery store beer. Worth a shot.

Bottle. Didn’t have that bad of an aroma, vanilla. The downside is it’s pretty weak, like they just took Budweiser and added vanilla extract, too carbonated, but I enjoyed it none the less.