Goose Island Bourbon Barrel Aged Wheatmiser

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (Brewpubs)
Style: Barley Wine
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in Snifter

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On tap at FoBAB ’07. Cloudy brown with slight beige head. Aged dough, red fruit aroma. Flavor was aged dough, bourbon, cherry, red apple, alc. Medium body, slight carb. Pretty awesome, great fruit flavors and aged notes.

UPDATED: OCT 31, 2008 FOBAB ’07....appearance: dark caramel brown with a thin ivory head....aroma: all i smell in this one is bourbon vanilla and booze....taste: candied brown sugar, bourbon, and a little too sweet overall.....i very much preferred wooden hell to this but not a bad offering overall.

10/31/08 On tap at GI Cly. Nice to be able to sit down with this one. aroma is pretty much the same but the flavors had more variety this time around. some bitterness in the finish cut into the bourbon and toffee flavors. a lot nicer this time around.

FoBAB 07. reall sweet. probably the sweetest beer i’ve ever drank. got super saccharine after a while. so sweet and honeyish. i couldn’t tolerate it, but i could see others loving it.

On tap at FoBAB 5. Poured a lightly hazy, caramelly-deep brown with a short cap of off-white head. The aroma was sweet and extremely rich with bourbon, vanilla, and darker fruits.. very malty, with little indication of wheat in the nose. The flavor had sweet grainier bourbon, vanilla, and medium-skinned-to-darker fruits at the base with warm, tart wheat around the tongue.. warm and malty finish with a touch of overt alcohol. Grainy, sweet, and challenging on the palate.. warm and syrupy at times, too.. great barrel integration. This was a very large beer, and it carried itself VERY well! One of the highlights of the fest.

FoBAB 2007, Chicago. Just the foam is enough to get you a good buzz (if I can decipher my notes correctly). Big heady white foam over a luminous brown body. Very much barley wine smell. No alcohol or dark malt harshness in taste, just a sweet malt and bourbon flavor with a interesting complement of hops (if it was so interesting, why couldn’t I describe it better?) Just the perfect thing to get s---faced with. Case in point.

FoBAB 2007: Honey and coppery hue with a small head and some lace. The nose has a initial uppercut of booze and heavy malt (honey, sugar, wheat, apple, pear, vanilla, oak, phenols, and a hint of rubber).

The taste is marzipan, honey comb with a smack of vanilla with a fruity midsection that finished spicy and woody, boozy throughout but not overpowering. The mouth feel is smooth, oily, sticky with a noticeable warming. This is great stuff but not for the meek of palate. A lot of things to contemplate.

on tap at FoBAB V: pours auburn w/ white head. nose of bourbon, oak, vanilla. flavors of sweet cotton candy, bourbon, caramelly, oaky, vanilla, awesome stuff but not as good as Wooden Hell which was also there.