Woodchute Barleywine

Pint can pours with a mahogany colored body that supports a thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up boozy bourbon like barrel character as well as soft malt sweetness and boozy booziness, a touch of vanilla and a touch of oak. Another whiff brings up soft sweet smelling prunes and figs. The taste delivers smooth supple sweet bourbon booziness that borders on being tangy and nearly tart but not tart, not out of place at all, barrel whisky sort of bourbon spirit character. To midway it picks soft sweet malts and a bit of plum and fig like sweet fruity ester. Toward the finish a bit of vanilla and somehow softened oak join in to help bring this to closure. Overall the barrel character is a little to far forward as the beer notes are well off in the background.