AleSmith Barrel Aged Wee Heavy

Brewed by AleSmith Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Thistle

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Bottle 750ml.
Bottle #15/222. Clear medium to dark brown color with virtually none head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, coconut, bourbon - port, wood, vanilla. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate. Body is medium to full, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is flat to soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20100416]

Bottle #199. The color is deep red with a slight hazy hanging in the beer and with no head. The aroma is very sweet and very malty with strong notes of caramel, but also with signs of the alcohol. The flavor contains strong notes of wood and alcohol, combined with notes of caramel and vanilla, as well as light notes of whiskey. The alcohol tickles the tongue while drinking, and mouthfeel is thick.

(Bottle 75 cl) Pours a clear orangey brown with a very limited head. Aroma of raisins and bourbon - a very distinctive and pleasant aroma that is. Good, full body, slightly tart with massive alcohol. Notes of dried fruit - raisins in particular - raisins soaked in rum, or rather Bourbon as the oak and vanilla really shines through. Lots of roasted malt. Subdued bitterness. A lovely brew. 020606

Alesmith Wee Heavy Barrel Aged #127, HUGE thanks to WeeHeavySD for the trade and KimJohansen for bringing this home. Pours dark brown with a small white head. Aroma is dark malty and fruity. Dark malty base flavour yet on the sweet side. Persisting caramelish. Slight more dry malty into the finish. Dark caramelish lasting impression. Subdued bitter and dark malty finish.

Bottled, thanks Marsblursi! Deep mahogany colour, brief bubbly head. Aroma of vanilla and caramel. Sweet and softly malty. Full bodied and velvetty, chocolatey and syrupy with lots of bourbon and spun sugar. A massive and compelc beer with a richness that is seldom seen. The character of teh Wee Heavy is really well suited for barrel aging, and this is nicely done. In the finish warming alcohol prevails. A mindlowing beer. If there is anything i could change I’d try to make it less sweet.

UPDATED: AUG 15, 2010 Bottle, 2004-edition. Clear red brown coloured with a small off white head. Aroma of dried fruits, wood and caramel. Sweet flavour of dried fruits, wood and caraamel with light dusty notes. 9-3-8-4-17 Bottle # 127/222, 2005 edition. Huge thanks to yespr. Hazy red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet and fruity aroma of dried fruits and caramel. Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel and dried fruits with notes of hops and alcohol. Warming alcoholic finish. 8-3-9-4-17

UPDATED: MAY 25, 2008 Date: 05/20/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog II

clear brown, thin whispy head, sweet oak aroma with a light hint of bourbon, after a while the big sweet bourbon comes bursting through and takes over the aroma with a touch of butterscotch and lingering vanilla, sweet bourbon flavor covered in layers of vanilla flavored hot carmel, lingering alcoholic heat,
-------- /> Date: 08/02/2006
Source: tasting

Aroma: sweet bourbon and vanilla aroma,
Body: creamy body,
Overall: lots of heat that disapates after a while allowing some ripe fruit and smokeyness to show through
-------- /> Date: 12/01/2007
Source: tasting

strong sweet bourbon and vanilla, ripe fruit character continues to grow in both the aroma and flavor,

Aroma: 9/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 9/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 18/20
Rating: 4.4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***4

Courtesy of Yespr; vintage 2005, bottle 127/222
Very dark brown color; no head. The oak aroma is wonderful, with rich caramel and malt. Solid body, with an extremely rich malt and caramel flavor, very sweet; it has a oily texture; the vanilla is well present but not overwhelming; the bitterness is very low; there is a light touch of liquorice that is not very appreciated. The alcohol is well hidden. The final is rather short. Excellent end of out tasting tonight!

Dark hazed mahogany with a medium beige head. Sweet vinioius with plenty of roasted malt, caramel and bourbon notes. Flavour was sweet with overripe fruits, roasted malt, caramel and sherry. This one blew my mind. So vinious and harmonic.

2005 Bottle Nr. 15/220. @ Brugmansia/Fonefan US Tasting, April 2010. Pours dark unclear brown with a small bubbly head on top. Nose is very vinous. Port, oak, toffee, vanilla and dark fruit. Medium and smooth palate. Low carbonation. Havy and complex with vague alcohol in the background. Reminds me a bit of Bourbon county stout. Pleasant warmth. Very tasty!