Flossmoor Station Wooden Hell

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Date: 04/28/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

dark with ruby edges, fine whispy brown head, sweet bourbon aroma, rich bourbon flavor on a dark malt base,
-------- /> Date: 04/27/2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Score: 4.2 to 4.4

all sweet bourbon and vanilla flavor, lots of oak, chocolate comes crawling out beneith the bourbon and adds great character, sweet winey character keeps reasserting itself,

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

Bottle opened by Urbain at the Alvinne pre Zythos event 09. Bourbon coconut. Lovely woody bourbon. Great mix and balance. Bit too bourbony maybe, great spice on the finish though.

A Mes rate. Bottle at Pre ZBF thanks to Urbs.
Rich red brown with a thin tan head. Damn, Wooden Hell is the right name for this. So SO much barrel. Far too much bourbon and loads of coconut. A good barley wine underneath obviously but this for me is what is wrong with barrel aging. Take a good beer and kill it with aggressive barrel flavours. It could have also been called bourbon hell...

22oz bottle shared courtesy of egajdzis (thanks!). Poured a deeper and cloudy brownish color with an averagd sized off white head. Aromas of lots of woodiness, vanilla, some bourbon, caramel, and some dark fruits. Tastes of wood, caramel, vanilla, bourbon (more than aromas), dark fruits, and brown sugar. Medium aclohol in the finish.

Sample from bottle thanks to whoever via urban. Alround rating: Massivly big caramalt body, sweet syrupyness, lots of toffee caramel vanilla character. Its too basic and unbalanced for me. I didnt finish the sample. Hugely suprised to see it rated this highly.

Draft...Pre-DLD06...This beer rocks!... Clear, mahogany ale with a small, creamy, beige head. Great retention. Caramel, light chocolate and light bourbon in the nose. The flavor is sweet, then bitter with notes of caramel and sourmash. Full-bodied and syrupy with medium carbonation. Finishes alcoholic and dry. Very warm, but not nearly as "hot" as Ella’s Reserve. World class effort!

On tap at the brewpub on 4/28/06: Pours a clear deep copper mahogany brown with a thin-lacing off-white head. Rich, sweet caramel bourbony aroma has some vanilla oaky complexity. Body starts with good sweet caramel malty flavor with lots of oaky vanilla, a touch of butterscotch and some warming alcohol. A nice, barrel-aged barleywine.

@Pauls Girardin chugging courtesy of egajdzis-22oz bottle–pours a disappearing tan head and hazy amber color. Aroma is hot bourbon, syrupy, medium malt, vanilla. Taste is hot bourbon, syrupy, medium malt-molasses, vanilla, dark fruit. Big. Dry finish.