Lexington Brewing Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout
Carefully crafted by Alltech’s master brewers, Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout® builds on the success of its barrel-aged brother, the beloved Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale®. Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout is brewed and aged with Alltech® Café Citadelle Haitian coffee and aged in world-famous Kentucky bourbon barrels. The result is a complex stout with dark-roasted malts, hints of caramel and vanilla and a lightly roasted coffee finish.
3.3
397 reviews
Lexington, United States
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This bottled Bourbon barrel aged brew from a bottle shop was served at a cool temperature and poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized brown colored bubbles that were quickly diminishing and left behind no visible carbonation opaque black brown colored body and a fair lacing. The nice aroma was dark malt and bourbon. The mouthfeel was tingly at the start and at the finish mild roasted malt aftertaste. The nice flavor contained notes of roasted malt vanilla bourbon brown malt and dark malt. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.
DATE: October 17, 2017... OCCASION: Cavs/Celtics to kick off the season... demands a beer with some strength... GLASSWARE: La Fin du Monde snifter... pours a midnight-black, thick with a creamy brown single-finger head... roasted coffee bean, cocoa nib, vanilla, and thick roasted malts... first sip is effervescent, surprisingly thin at the teeth, and coating at its throat... late in the profile, a cloying dryness settles with warmth... perhaps this is where the KBS pales to other with the same moniker... the vanilla tops a sweet mocha coffee bean, making this a pleasant sip... some nuttiness in the roast too, with an acetyl alcohol that taints the finish ever so much... the caramel adds sweetness to the mix... overall, a solid, medium-bodied, flavorful stout that doesn't reflect enough bourbon to wear its name...
Bottle at Wildfire BA Beer Dinner. A stouty looking stout, though lacking in head and not as opaque as I like mine to be. Nose os roasty, cocoa, coffee, faint booze. Mouth is thin for a stout (leaning more towards the porter side of the scale), mild sweetness, fudge, touch vanilla and some booze. Overall, it's not terrible but it's really nothing to write home about either. A big monied brewery version of something a lot of craft brewers have already done to death... and a whole lot better than this.
Aroma: bourbon, wood, caramel
Taste: caramel, chocolate, coffee.
Nice nose but weak tongue.
8/10/15 the bourbon flavor is not as prominent as their Bourbon ale. strong notes of coffee. Full body. Mild carbonation. No discernible bitterness. Very good very drinkable
i like that is rife with coffee and still stout like. the aroma is alcohol and coffee and a bit of bourbon. not heavy but busy body the coffee cuts through nicely. just moderate in the body and bourbon nicely laid back. easy roast and beery taste and body in the mid palate. nice.
12-ounce bottle pours blackish-brown with some ruby highlights -- an odd color for a stout. There’s a trace of off-white head and lacing. Aroma: molasses, coffee, raisins. Flavor: cocoa, espresso, licorice, vanilla, prunes, molasses, smoke, oak. Mouthfeel: light- to medium-bodied -- surprisingly light-bodied for its ABV. I’m a big fan of bourbon-barrel-aged beers, but this is not the best representation of the flavors that can be extracted from the barrel. I’ve tried other beers from this brewery, and the stout is slightly better than some others, but this brewer’s beers, I believe, all start with sub-par beer. If the beer itself were better, I would think that the barrel-aged end product would be better. With an unlimited supply of used bourbon barrels for this Lexington, Ky.-based brewer, now they just need to figure out how to brew better beer before putting it into these casks.
From Aushopping :: label says : "Brewed onder licence at Station Works in oak barrels with Haïtian coffee" :: ABV: 7.2% :: >> Bière Noire Nord irlandaise >> Beau stout léger est savoureux. Nez complexe sur le Bourbon et le café, le bois, le caramel avec un pointe d’orge grillé. L’attaque torréfiée, plutôt aqueuse, ronde à l’arôme de caramel, livre de fortes saveurs d’orge torréfié et de café mais qui s’estompe assez vite en milieu de bouche pour laisser la place aux saveurs de Bourbon, de bois sur des notes acres. Ce n’est qu’en finale que je note un retour le torréfié sur des notes légèrement biscuitées. Dommage que le goût de caramel surpasse un peu trop les adjuvants. Pau d’amertume.#418
Delicious. Hints of cocoa and coffee. Not at all bitter. ❤️
35,5cl bottle purchased @ Leclerc Le Boulou. Belle robe noire. Notes de bourbon avec beau final sur le fût de chêne. Manque de corps.
12 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 4/17/2017. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger fairly dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, nutty medium roasted coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, and dark bread; with lighter notes of bourbon, coconut, smoke, raisin, cherry, herbal, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and bourbon barrel notes; with solid strength. Taste of milk chocolate, cocoa, nutty medium roasted coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, and dark bread; with lighter notes of bourbon, coconut, smoke, raisin, cherry, herbal, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Light herbal/roasted bitterness and slight bourbon/oak spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, dark bread, bourbon, light smoke/dark fruit, herbal, roast/toast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and bourbon barrel flavors; with a nice roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from roast bitterness. Light-medium carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, fairly creamy/silky, and slightly sticky/chalky/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Minimal warming ABV for 8%, with zero barrel booziness. Overall this is a nice BBA coffee stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and bourbon barrel flavors; very smooth and easy to sip on for the ABV. Not too big on the barrel or coffee presence, but still has solid amounts. Nice levels of barrel influenced character, but less so on the actual bourbon. More of a beginners BBA stout I guess, but still nicely enjoyable.
This was one of my friends so-called "shelf turds" that I ganked from him when he moved so I could rate a beer from KY. Alas, while not total poop, it isn’t too great either. It has a slightly sour typical malty smoky smell of stout and pours the customary black brown with a thin head. The taste is smoke, bitter coffee, some tang, and kinda watery. It is pretty light and drinkable for an 8% abv stout, but that’s about the best thing about it. Glad to tick KY off the beer map, but this one isn’t worth your time really. Good for waiting for Hulu to come back while eating some flatbread so that you can continue Walken Week 2k17.
A beautiful dark color with a brown foam, which drops pretty fast. Aroma of chocolate with alcohol. But chocolate clearly dominates. In taste, in addition to chocolate appears coffee, burnt and slightly bitter. The aftertaste is slightly bitter and watery.
Couleur noire, mousse légère, nez sur le Bourbon. Bourbon bien présent en bouche, mais assez fade et aqueuse. Manque de corps, manque d’alcool. Décevant.
Couleur noire, légère mousse beige. Nez malt grillé avec note caramel et whisky. Gout malt grillé, whisky avec caramel un peu vanillé. Corps un peu leger. Petite amertume et caramelisé en fin de bouche. PAs trop mal
12oz bottle from the now gone Malt Shoppe in Tosa, cellared for 6 months. Very dark brown pour with a tan head leaving some lace. Aroma has caramel, roast, some fruit, chocolate and some vanilla. Taste is of sweet caramel malts, some roast, some red fruits, and a dose of vanilla, if not really bourbon. Quite sweet as the roast isn’t enough to balance. Medium bodied, which feels thin for the components, there is some alcohol presence and the blend is decent. Finishes sweetly with some length. Solid, and nothing offensive. Sweet, where some bitter depth would do wonders. 13.5
Bottle; pours black with a thin, brown head; aroma of roasted malt, coffee, and hints of bourbon, wood, and vanilla; taste is bittersweet with coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt, with some traces of vanilla; dry, light bitter finish with some bourbon warming
Bottle from Whole Foods. Hazy dark brownish black pour with tan head. Dark malt, mild bourbon, coffee in the nose. Tastes medium in density, somewhat dry, with mild oaky bourbon, mild coffee, vanilla, dark malt, vanilla, some hops.
Poured from a bottle. Dark brown color. Small off white head. Sour mineral aroma. Medium sour malt flavor and a mild sour finish.
Tan head quickly dissipates to lacey; Slight nose of sweet bourbon; Hue very dark brown with just a bit of orange-brown translucence; Velvet mouthfeel with a very slight bourbon note, slight oak and caramel malt taste with a tiny hint of coffee; malt is just a bit roasted; Quick finish with just a hint of coffee. This beer would score higher as a Porter than a Stout. If you advertize coffee and barrel aging in your beer, those tastes should dominate. Not so with this beer.
Creosote, bourbon, aroma, subtle hints of fudge. Cola black, thin tan head. Charcoal, raisin, astringent. Medium body, easy carbonation. Little character or depth of flavor.
Bottle from Liquor Barn. Pours black with little head. Aroma of coffee, vanilla, and alcohol.
Not bad, hard to coax a head, a little thin given 8% to work with. Light chocolate, caramel, vanilla, overall mild. I was impressed by the long finish.
Stout brassé avec du café, et passé en barrel de bourbon avec du café de Haïti .. ça c’est sur papier !!
Niveau abv de 8 %, orge et blé maltés. Date illisible, mais assez récente.
Couleur noir profond, à l’opacité forte.
Mousse qui est un nappage à fins flocons, de surface, brun moyen.
Arômes de café et petit bourbon de contrebande dans un assemblage peu harmonieux, avec du
sureau et du melon pas mûr.
1ère bouche pétillante, au très faible ensemble, avec des notes de rouille !!
Arrière-bouche très faible.
2ème sur le sureau et un café passé depuis 3 jours.
Arrière-bouche sans aucun relief.
3ème vraiment navrante, où Mamy a laissé tombé des échalotes dans le café ..
Arrière-bouche où Mamy plonge les mains dedans pour les récupérer …
Longueur qui plaque le sureau devant la porte pour permettre à Mamy de verser le café dans un
autre pot en fer blanc qui n’a plus servi depuis 25 ans et qui vient de la remise à Papi... juste sous
l’étagère pleine de clous rouillés !!
Alcool inopérant : il panique devant la tâche démesurée et demande pardon à genoux …
Finale où je dis à Mamy qu’elle devrait de temps en temps remplacer la vaisselle, parce que ça
commence à faire un peu farfouille .. pour être gentil.
CONCLUSION : un titre et une étiquette bien alléchante, mais on s’arrête pratiquement là …
Kés aco ken tucky ? Tucky ken aco kés ...
Pours dark brown, fairly red, small dark head. Aroma is bold and sweet - roasty, chocolatey, big vanilla and maple presence. Taste is a bit thinner than expected, but still rather tasty. Vanilla and maple seem to be the predominant flavours - mocha finish, not especially oaky. Mouthfeel is fairly sticky for a stout. Nothing special, but worth trying.
bottled - super dark in color - black. Flavor is slightly sweet with some coffee. Sweet stout aroma.
Pours typical dark stout but with a minimal head. On the nose rather one dimensional malt, coffee, molasses, barnyard, soy and some bourbon or wood notes. One dimensional because I really had to search for this. On the palate an effervescent, attenuated presence with a smooth but very short finish. Wouldn’t pay for this.
Pours a jet black color and has no real lacing or head retention. The aroma is strong of dark chocolate and it drinks very smoothly. There is no harsh aftertaste, and also leaves a nice coffee flavor. The biggest problem with this is that there is really no bourbon flavor at all. None on the nose, nor in the taste. Shame....
12oz bottle. Poured a black color with a smaller sized tan head. Chocolate, vanilla, coffee, and lighter bourbon.
2015 BJCP Category: 33B Specialty Wood-Aged Beer (base style: 20B American Stout)
AROMA: Familiar stout aroma of dark malt, red fruit and slight chocolate. No roasted malt nor coffee. Slight tang. Mild nose overall. 6/12
APPEARANCE: Extremely dark brown to black proper; nearly opaque. Small, brown suds fizzle away quickly. No lacing. 1/3
FLAVOR: Mild palette of dark malt with generic, nondescript sweetness. No distinct roasted malt flavor whatsoever. Some firm dry bitterness at the apex of the swig followed by a short coffee flavor and some alcohol warmth. No chocolate or vanilla notes. Bourbon barrel character is virtually undetectable. 9/20
MOUTHFEEL: Medium body; low carbonation. Feels tepid and dull in the mouth. Texture is smooth and 8% alcohol presence is subtle. Slightly dry, bitter aftertaste but otherwise clean. 3/5
OVERALL IMPRESSION: Fails as both a bourbon barrel brew and a coffee stout. Entirely too mild and insipid. 4/10
TOTAL SCORE: 23/50