Winters Bourbon Cask Ale

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

Bottle. Pours copper with a moderate white head. Aroma is sweet vanilla and bourbon. Flavor is initially almost exactly like vanilla extract. After adjusting a bit, it gets slightly more complex, adding some caramel malt, bourbon, and faint woodiness. Initially seemed strong on the vanilla; by the end seemed strong on the bourbon. Moderately interesting and better than I expected from A-B, but really unbalanced.

Bottle. Pours a medium brown with thin head. Aroma is full of caramel malt, some vanilla. Flavor is on the sweeter side, malty, mostly caramel, and strongly vanilla. Slightly buttery as well, with only just the faintest hint of oak, if any. This one should be called vanilla ale. Not really all that bad considering the brewer.

very much the taste of vanilla extract which is kinda weird for a beer. but considering it’s anheuser busch, i can’t expect too much. but it was good considering the makers. the best of the AB bunch so far which ain’t saying much

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.

Not too bad for an AB product. I actually liked this one. Well on tap that is. This BBQ joint up the street had this on tap and I tried it out compared to the bottle. Much smoother and honestly, I wouldn’t have known it was an AB product if I didn’t work at a liquor store. I would have thought it was a Sam Adam’s product. Decent brown color, with a smooth malt flavor.

Poured a clear brown amber color with small white head that dissipated quickly. Aroma was of bourbon and vanilla. Flavor was also of bourbon, vanilla, and some spice. Mouthfeel was a bit on the thin side. Drinkability was okay. Not the best beer, but I applaud Anheuser-Busch for making the effort.

Surprisingly good brew from AB. A tad on the sweet side but with a moderately complex palate of vanilla and smoke. The syrupy aftertaste reminds me more of a soda than a brew, but a hell of a lot better than most macrobrewed shlock.

Pours a deep yet clear copper color with a nice growing foaming head that quickly dissipates. Very effervescent in appearance with a musky earthy aroma. Sour, woody, apple flavor, with a bitter vanilla undertone; dry & grassy. Would probably get more satisfaction by opening the cupboard above the stove and chewing on a bunch of herbs, spices and them vanilla beans mom got you from her trip to mexico.