Kuhnhenn Bourbon Barrel Barley Wine

Brewed by Kuhnhenn Brewing
Style: Barley Wine
Warren, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

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RBWG’10 pours dark brown, no head. Aroma, load of caramel goodness, butterscotch, bready malts and doughy with touch of bourbon. Flavors, fudge, buttery sweet caramel, medium carbonation, light vanilla note, warming abv, light fizzy mouthfeel, doughy goodness, sweet thick sugary palate warming abv with bourbon being well balanced. This beer is grandiose. Has all the good characteristics of Kuhnhenn.

Mondial de la bière Montréal : Chaleur d’alcool, vanille, caramel et biscuit malt, légèrement fumé.

bottle thanks to brad at kuhnhenn. this was 2011 batch shared with mark at kuhnhenn tap room. the aroma is so sweet and sexy it makes you want to have sex with it! the taste is like the first girl you ever kissed so complex it stuns you at first and you pull away suddenly but then snap back and go in for more. cant wait to buy at solstice.

UPDATED: JUN 4, 2007 The Lure:
Regal bourbon licorice sticks act as a proud prow to this baccate toffee vessel. Its sails are swollen by sweet cocoa and palm sugar as it glides forward in confirmed smoky fraternity.

The Festivities:
Harmonious berries wade in a wealthy, slick sea of bubblegummy candied malts and bourbon heat. A very fine carbonation allows the flavors to float in synchronicity, as sugary dates, raisins and a peaceful alcohol warming assure a lip-smacking posterity. Alcohol bitterness plays the role of the hops and skillfully diversifies the malt. As inspiring as Alesmith’s own barrel-aged ventures, this luxurious barley wine is as velvety as they get.

Transcendence:
An old-world monarch gets comfortable with his preferred libation, forecasting glorious, dominion-shattering decisions.

First hand-bottled from Clark, and more recently tried from the official Kuhnhenn bottled release.

UPDATED: NOV 24, 2005 Thanks to Davo for sharing a growler. Color is a muddled mess of black and brown with an amazing aroma of bourbon, vanilla, molasses and ripe and dried dark fruits. First sip is Raisenettes soaked in bourbon. The hops taste like they’ve been soaking in bourbon as well with some flavors of cherries and toffee. Amazing stuff.

Big thanks to BB63 for this bottle. Pours cloudy brown. Aroma is bourbon, malt, oak, fruit, toffee, and vanilla. Flavor is fruit, mostly cherries, toffee, bourbon. malt, and oak. Fairly heavy body. Very mouth watering, and the alcohol is pretty well hidden. Very little carbonation. More would make this even more incredible.

UPDATED: JUN 10, 2007 Courtesy of Ibrew2or3. Thank you, Dave. HUGE bourbon aroma with an equally massive caramel malt aroma. Hints of vanilla, oak and pale white fruits. The body is alusterous amber.brown and totalyl headless. The first sip yeilds coconut, pineapple and gobs, heaps and metric assloads of malt, accenutated by caramel and damn near every fruit you can think of. Amazing flavor concentration here. It really floods the tastebuds with wonderfully tasty flavors. Go figure I love a barley wine.

12oz Bottle. Thanks Sean! An intense fruity nose that brings me back to the essence of Barleywine. Honey-drenched graham cracker, rum-macerated dried figs, and bourbon soaked peaches. Absolutely glowing and delightful. Froths up a thin rim of white. Lying beneath, a murky brew cloaked in henna and amber, fringing golden. Alcoholic bursts forward, taking within a strong mix of malts, fruits, and barrel. Oak, apricots, and oat crackers all tumble out of a brandy bottle, spilling the lugubrious vapors all over my palate. The alcohols really keep this one fresh. I expected sickening sweetness and instead got airy oak-balanced liquid toffee. This beer has a great balance of flavors and none of those rancid characters I might expected from such a beer, such as, bubblegum, early-stage infection, or oxidation. There’s a deep pithiness to the oak that elevates to vanilla and cream. This beer really and truly is an epic barleywine, one that reminds me that I do, in fact, enjoy the style (when done well). What a pleasant, lovely surprise.

Solid, solid drink again here. 09 vintage from a flandersned. Smooth, complex, delicious, and all the alcohol has been absorbed and turned into delicious beery goodness. Definitely a sipping beer. Ruby red brown color with no head, not surprising considering the alcohol content here. Aroma is deep plum and syrupy sweetness. A little roasty malt working in the background. As I concentrate on the flavors and aromas this beer gets more intense and complex. Also as it warms more and different flavors come out. Sort of a smoky mustiness to the aroma now. The flavor is hot but deep and malty, sweet, and chocolaty. A little bit of soy sauce at first but that leads into a smooth, complex, woody, and roasted smooth malty drink. A little syrupy and sweet but if you sip it you get your moneys worth here. You can tell i like this beer.

Sampled from a 2009 Bottle and on tap at Kuhnhenn’s, has a hazy red pour with some brown hues, just a few bubbles appeared on top when poured, bubbles are off-white and light tan colored, light effervescence in this beer, there was some lacing on the sides of the glass, and some light brown sediment in the bottle (this ale is not filtered), this beer had aromas of caramel, candy sweetness, Bourbon, lots of malt, raisin, honey, a mixture of light and dark fruit, there was vanilla is in the background, toasted malt, and some floral hops but the caramel seems to cover this up or hide the hop influence, the flavors consisted of caramel, light and dark fruit-raisin and Bourbon aged Dates, bread crust, there was a light earthy floral fragrance, this ale had medium bitterness at the finish with a little alcohol heat at the finish (the alcohol gave some bitterness on the palate), there is light fruit citrus on the palate, the alcohol grew a little when it reached room temperature but there was a lot of malt flavors to go along with the alcohol, the mouth feel of this beer is thick, a great sipping beer, I thought the tap version was better, the mixture of a Barley Wine and Bourbon mixed well, a nice combination.