Wicked Weed Brewing Xibalba (Bourbon Barrel)

Xibalba (Bourbon Barrel)

 

Wicked Weed Brewing in Candler, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular
Score
7.39
ABV: 9.5% IBU: - Ticks: 17
Xibalba is our pumpkin ale, brewed with cacao nib, ancho, serrano, and habenaro chiles with fall spices. This version has been Bourbon barrel aged with ancho chiles, cacao nibs, vanilla and pumpkin spices.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is smooth Bourbon with dark malt, caramel, chocolate, green peppers, vanilla, oak, spicy notes, toffee. Flavour is medium sweet without the firm chili burn you'd expect, it's fairly subtle and the chili is present more in the aroma than in the flavour. Body is above medium. Very nice, smooth and balanced with lovely Bourbon and peppers.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:57


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottled (from Systembolaget Umeå). Copper colour, small beige head. Aroma is pumpkin, some ginger bread and mild vanilla notes. Flavour is pumpkin, some ginger and mild alcohol to it. Smooth and well balanced. No traces of chili nor cacao.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2022 at 16:54


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Quarantine Beer #091 sampled from 2016 bottle at home on 04/28/2020. Dark cola-brown color with a medium beige head that diminishes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing. Oaky aroma with pepper and pumpkin spice notes. Medium to full body with flavors of oaky bourbon, pumpkin spice, chili pepper and chocolate malt. The finish is spicy and oaky with a bourbon and pepper aftertaste. Pretty good overall.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2020 at 16:44


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(Bottle, Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival, 5 Oct 2019) Dark brown colour with foamy, beige head. Malty, vinous nose with notes of chocolate, roasted pumpkin, cinnamon, vanilla and bourbon. Fruity taste with caramel, chocolate, pumpkin, cinnamon and bourbon. Low bitterness. Almost full body, with a certain sweetness. Pumpkin beers are not usually my cup of tea, but the combination with bourbon and chocolate/caramel works really well. Very nice. (7/4/8/4/15=3.8) Rerate: (Bottle, 9 Jan 2024) Dark brown colour with foamy beige head. Malty, spicy nose with notes of oak wood, cinnamon, fruit cake, pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, caramel, chocolate and vanilla. Malty, spicy, sweet taste with caramel, oak wood, fruit cake, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, chocolate, vanilla and a mild spicy bitterness in the finish. A slight chilli bite coming through after a while. Almost full body, sweet. Rich, complex and quite spicy. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2020 at 21:37


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Mørk brun med beige skum. Lukter bourbon, vanilje, pepper og mørk stenfrukt. Middels + i fylde. Kjenner fatlagringen helt fra starten. Vanilje, trevirke, bourbon og mørk sjokolade. Lang

Tried on 18 Dec 2019 at 19:59


6

Tried from Bottle on 30 Nov 2019 at 19:53


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle web SB.2019-11-22 Göteborg AR: bourbon, bourbon hear, spices, dades AP: Darrell Bourgogne, deminishing head F: bourbon, alcohol heat and chili ditto, bakers chocolate, dates, mixed spices, wee wine

Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2019 at 22:31


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottled 375ml (Systembolaget) Dark ruby-brown colour, small beige head. Toffee, ginger bread, pumpkin, chocolate in the nose. Medium to full-bodied. Sweetish toffeish flavour is dominated by pumpkin spice and ginger bread. Some bourbon, cocoa, can't trace chilli. Interesting.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Nov 2019 at 18:17


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Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2019 at 10:39


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draft at Capones. Opaque black and full bodied. Molasses, bourbon and pumpkin spice aroma. Brown sugar and pumpkin taste with vanilla following. Finish is pumpkin boozy. Excellent pumpkin stout.

Tried from Draft on 17 Aug 2019 at 00:54