Olde Hickory Bardstown Brand Ale Aged in Bourbon Barrels

Formerly brewed at Olde Hickory Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Hickory, North Carolina USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle 22fl.oz.

Unclear medium to dark amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, light nutty, moderate alcohol - bourbon, vanilla, wood notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, licorcice - laber larver. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100912]

the assistant brewer at French Broad told me I had to get to this one, so I did. Defintily a complex barley, three years behind it with age in oak bourbon barrels, that is TLC. Great body and complexity. Was a wonderful beer. I had a Brewgrass so the atmosphere was loud and hot, wish I could try in a cooler quiter environment to really get down on this Barley

Transparent tan, thin white ring for a head. Cookie and wood, light malt. Flavor is more alcohol, strong, dry wood. Sticky, low carbonation, large and smooth. Decent beer.

Sampled at BA Bolita release. Watery copper pour. Pungent bourbon aroma. Smoother sweet malt, brown sugar taste with hints of bourbon.

Bomber shared by Wilkie! Pours a nice clear ruby amber with a thin head. Aroma is bourbony sweet, with earthy hints, spice, tons of sweet refined malts, caramel and toffee lots of oak and a bit boozy but not overly so. More super refined sweetness in the flavor, but doesnt get overly cloying, the bourbon barrles dry it out a bit- syrupy, molasses, yet clean, and a nice astringent and moderate bitter finihs. Pretty straightforward BA barleywine that wasnt outstanding but nothign bad here.

Bottled. A hazy dark brown beer with a light tan head. The aroma has notes of caramel, malt, and some hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, spices, alcohol, bourbon, and wood, leading to a dry bourbon finish.

( 22oz bottle ) Pours a hazy deep amber body with a medium creamy beige head. Aroma of caramel, wood, bourbon, and vanilla. Flavor of oak, caramel, raisons, light citrus, bourbon, and herbs with a bitter finish.

Bottle at Papsø. Hazy orange coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet aroma of caramel and dried fruits with notes of liquorice and alcohol. Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits, liquorice and alcohol. Warming alcoholic finish. Too much alcohol.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of wavers1. Vintage 2007. Pours amber with a slight haze and a small off-white head. Sweet vanilla, Bourbon and licorice allsorts in the nose. Solid body, loadsa caramel and vanilla with a massive booziness. Some late bitterness though. 120910

Hazy amber with a medium off white head. Sweet aroma with toasted malt, caramel and bourbon. Flavor was sweet with bourbon, vanilla, wood, toasted malt, caramel and ripe fruits. Finished sweet with warming alcohol.