Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

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

Date: 12/2/2008 Source:Food Lion Carmel dominated aroma with a touch of vanilla and not a trace of bourbon in the aroma. Clear dark golden with amber highlights. Caramel maltyness with some vanilla and very little bourbon or wood character in the flavor. Very clean finish for an ale. Cloying sweetness. Rather disappointing.

12oz bottle. Pours a butterscotch color head with an orange amber body. Smells of vanilla and caramel. Tastes of vanilla and toffee.

It was a fluk that I tried this beer, since my establishment had replaced my normal brew with it. This beer has a reddish caramel color to it and pour a nice off-white head. The beer has notes of different seasonal spices such as cinnamon which you have to look for, because, the dominate flavor is vanilla in the beer. However, I didn’t mind this as much do to liking the flavor of vanilla normally. The beer goes down easily and has a crisp finish. This is a good beer to serve people that don’t drink beer normally.

i was really excited to try this and then was dissapointed that i spent $6.49 after i tried it. its not a terrible taste just a lack of flavor. i can taste the vanilla and not much else. on a positive they go down easy.

Has a very clear light to medium red pour with some faint burnt orange and bronze colors, has medium carbonation and a small off-white bubbled head, aroma of candied vanilla and malt sweetness, has some toasted malt aroma but it is in the background, flavor of malt and malt sweetness, there is a faint taste of alcohol, maybe this is the flavoring added to give a bourbon aged taste? There is some spice flavoring of cinnamon and maybe something else, finish has a small bitterness and ends with some dryness on the palate, I had a hard time drinking this, not sure if it was the spices or the overall recipe, thin mouth feel, this does not smell and taste like a beer that was aged in a bourbon barrel, this is boring, the only thing good about this beer was how it looked and I was glad to be done with this drink.

Pours a nice copper-red. Don’t get your hopes up. Aroma is light, and smells distinctly Michilobian. Flavor....is also very much so. Slightly bitter. Not in the hoppy way either. Definitely a bit of the cask-wood flavor though. Not much malt or hops or anything else that might give it decent flavor. Overall - meh.

Another one DuffmanSW was trying to get rid of. 12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear reddish copper, no head. Aroma is cotton candy and vanilla jellybeans. Tastes like vanilla extract and old stale candy. Some sourness is the only thing that really makes this resemble beer. Thin bodied. Might not be bad over a scoop of ice cream, but I can easily say this will be my first and last bottle.

Bottle thanks to Butters. Caramel orange with a thin off white head. Light smoky aroma, bourbon, malt, and vanilla. Taste is tons of vanilla, thin woody and smoke. The vanilla is nice but unbalanced.