Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

12oz bottle a few months old. pours a deep mahogony with small head. aroma is just awful, some combination of spice, vanilla, and a medicinal scent with undertone of bourbon. the aroma is sickening. oh the flavor is much worse. way off balance with loads of vanilla extract flavor that makes me gag. can’t taste much bourbon. but please don’t make me take another sip. okay, maybe i was prepared for a second sip cuz it wasn’t the worst thing ever but still, dag yo, this is nasty. i’m done. the vanilla flavor is so over powering i can’t taste anything else. it’s like cutting vanilla extract with a few ounces of water. i hate this. after 2 sips i’m done. luckily my drain can handle the rest.

Tried this definitely w/out bias at Redwood in Seattle...had no idea it was the AB Bourbon until after I tried it. This is just wrong...Clear dark amber with creamy head. Vanilla coke aroma and taste. Tastes like flat vanilla coke mixed with ass. I commend them for trying, but this just doesn’t work.

i was surprised this was not bad lots of vanilla finish and little oak flavor .

Bottle. Pours copper with a thin white head. Nose is a little funky, sweet. Taste is of a little vanilla and marshmellow, not much bourbon. Not horrible, but something that I’m not looking forward to the rest of the 6 pack.

On tap at Trovatos. Orange-honey color with a huge head so big that the bartender had to pour it 3 times. Slight floral nose. Flavor better than buttwiper with a slight cor base. Odd essence of a Belgian wanna-be, quite different than a typical A-B product. Watery palate with no suggestion of bourbon at all.

Absolutely awful. Nothing about this offering was pleasing. The aroma was of hand soap and the taste left in my mouth was much the same. I’m glad I only sampled this and didnt have to drink an entire pint.

Odd aroma reminded me of bud but poured a darker carmel color w/ a nice little head on it. Palate was fairly decent, some ok coating, and things. Flavor was a pleasant surprise much better than expected some rice notes but a good amounts of carmel and some light vanillas in the finish. I really didn’t pick up much of the bourbon barrelling.

On tap, poured a semi-clear crimson with little head. Smells lightly of vanilla and tastes distinctly of the same. It actually tastes light vanilla yoghurt. I thought this was a pretty good one, but am pretty disappointed now that I find out it’s A-B.