Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

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

From my father in law. Weird beer from Michelob. No real flavor at all and then the Vanilla hits you. Nice try but Michelob should stick to lagers.

Poured clear red with a quickly dimishing head. Hint of malt and bourbon, light without much going on. Not offensive, but not much there. DId not realize it was as AB product until I took a sip. At least they are trying. Maybe InBev will help them.

A caramel colored beer with a nose also of caramel along with vanilla and a bit of spice. Flavor is a disappointment. It offers very little caramel and only a dash of vanilla. Wood is the most dominant flavor theme and even that is faint. There is bourbon in here? Warming helped some but not enough.
Earlier Rating: 11/24/2007 Total Score: 2.8
Body is clear amber in color with medium carbonation. Head is thin and white and does not hang around long. Aroma is lightly malty and pleasant. First taste is bolder than expected and grabs you with a malt / wood flavor. It soon settles into a sweet spiced vanilla beer. I don’t catch bourbon at all. Feel is almost syrupy. This beer is interesting but, as usual, the attempt to be slick by AB causes the product to suffer.

Bottle. Lightly woody, mocha-tinged nose with some nice vanilla wafting, though the overall effect is like syrup added to sodapop. Deep orange-amber pour with a clingy beige-tan head. Taste of corn and grain is strong enough to overwhelm anything else they try to add, and the syrupy corn aftertaste is just as bad. Thin-bodied slop.

not the best winter beer in the world, but coming from michelob its actually pretty good in my opinion. couldve had a tad less vanilla and a tad more bourbon for my taste, but its still a good beer.

12 oz bottle. Simply put, this tastes like Killians with a bit of vanilla and just a trace of bourbon. I guess this might be a suitable winter beer for the Yuengling crowd, but it doesnt do anything for me.

bottle, iced tea colored pour, head is tan with strong lacing, aroma is malty and sour, flavor has a strong vanilla presence with not much bourbon, finish is middling, not bad overall

Orange coppery in color, with a thin head. An immediate pleasing vanilla aroma hits the nose. Definite vanilla flavor with little to no real hops presence. Overall its a nice sipping brew.