Livery Bourbon Cask Aged Wheat Trippelbock

Brewed by The Livery
Style: Weizen Bock
Benton Harbor, Michigan USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

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Pours brown, with almost no head. Aroma is, wow, really nice. Bourbon, vanilla, wood, and a little wheat. Flavor is bourbon, vanilla, dark fruit, and wheat. Low on carbonation. Thanks to BBB63 for this one.

Probaly the 2nd most potent brew at the Great Taste. Again the aroma so rich and full that it is hard to initiate a sip. Everyone gives you the "Whoa" when they take that first sniff. The alcohol is really flying out of there at first but then the vanilla, maple,carmel,gently massage your senses and your no longer afraid. The taste is much the same,with boubon coming through and some of the wheat becoming noticable. The swallow is long and dreamy,with an exqusite aftertaste lingering in your mouth. There should be a man-law that this brew be available to the Midwest year round

Courtesy BBB63. 2006 batch. Poured a very dark mahogany color with a sparse tan head. Bourbon, oak, dark fruit, caramel, mild alcohol on the nose. The bourbon compliments and does not overpower. Malt aromas come out after warming a bit. Great texture to this brew. Taste has vanilla, oak, raw sugarcane sweetness and a moderate heat in the finish. There’s a lot going on here, but it integrates so well. A great brew. Thanks, Mike.

Handbottle, courtesy of BBB63 THANKS!. Pours dark brown (clear mahogany when held up to light). Holy crap, I didn’t want to drink this because the nose is so amazing - beautiful mixture of smooth bourbon, woodiness, some alcohol, carmel and some coconut too. Flavor starts with prominent yet graceful vanilla, bourbon woody character then comes notes of caramel, brown sugar, wheat, raisin, light earthy/herbal hops. Pleasant sweetness level, warming alcohol finish which complements rather than detracts. Full, round and creamy with soft, fine-beaded carbonation. Just ridiculously good. Thanks so much, Mike!

Courtesy beerlando. Dec. 2007. 11% abv. Dark multi brown. No head. Aroma of whiskey oak, rich toasted biscuity malt, toffee, light dose of dark fruit, subtle smoke, subtle alcohol. Same flavor. Rich. Full body, low carbonation, viscous. Great after dinner brew.

UPDATED: AUG 16, 2011 Draft - GTMW. Big, big bourbon aroma. Lots of vanilla, caramel, toasty oak, toffee and just a small hint of sourness.  Pours nearly flat, dark, slightly cloudy brown. Just a few bubbles top the mostly headless/lifeless looking liquid. Flavor falls a tad short of the robustness of the nose. Boatloads of drying oak tannin, a touch of apple cider vinegar, watery caramel and toffee. Plenty of vanilla and bourbon spice. Nearly still on the tongue. Fairly watery midpalate back with a drying, oak-tannin laden finish. Nice for sure, but slightly thinner and more watery than expected. 

UPDATED: DEC 10, 2007 Poured from a 22 oz. handbottle. Dark, reddened oak pour; glassy brandy shading around the edge. Beautiful and pure aroma of wet oak, eggnog and soft bourbon, pistachio sweetness; stunning. Toasted coconut and vanilla bean in a spectacular kind of rich tropical heat that is carefully bridled, and simply poignant. Flavor is thick and full; gooey brown sugars and reduced port; melon sugar, pecan oil, more toasted coconut and a bottomless reservoir of lager yeast fruitiness. Hint of watermelon, quieted sweet smoke, with plenty of full banana and clove wheatiness toward the finish; this projects quietly up the nose as well. Lightest wink of heat. Clean, full, and simply luxurious with soft velvet touch in the mouth; cake batter and rum-like nutty sweetness pulse warmly after swallowing. Carefully wrought, and brilliant. Thanks for sharing, Mike!

From a handbottle. Very dark, ruddy brown pour with a small trace of a bubbled tan head. There is an amazing amount of mouth watering aroma dimensions going on here. Succulent waves of brown sugar, rummed dipped cigar wrapper, strawberries, caramel, molasses, and sticky chocolate nougat blend together superbly in this thick, bourbony bouqet. Rich, soft, full-bodied, lightly carbonated mouthfeel with a bit of chewy caramelly bourbon. Tons of sweet, dark fruits flood the palate with amazing complexity. Cherry, strawberry, caramel, chocolate, toffee, vanilla bean, oaky bourbon - of course this is good! For as intense and packed in as all the flavor seems to be, it is frighteningly drinkable. Very nice, and quite well done. What more can I possibly say?

Thanks Pantanap for sharing this! Dark brown with small tan head. Aroma is bourbon, toffee, roasted malt, medium sweet, very nice. Flavor is nicely balanced bourbon with sweet caramel malt, dark fruit, slight hops, so good! Medium to full body with some burn. A very well balanced beer and very good.

Bottle at argo0’s xmas party--thanks BBB63. Disclaimer--before you start sending me hate mail--I really don’t like bourbon. As a colleague of mine once said, once you have vomited bourbon from your nose from overindulgence, you really can’t stand the smell of it anymore. That said, pours dark, red edges, small head. Aroma is, well... bourbon (gag!) and trying to get around that smell I sense a lovely sweet malty balance of nutty malt and coconut. Flavor is similar--bourbon (gag!) and a decent wheaty malt balance. Alcohol burn, with aftertaste of bourbon (gag!) and perhaps other dark rum-like flavors. It is very smooth at least. Excellent, for people who don’t hate bourbon.