Bourbon Barrel GBS (2023)
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
Richmond, VA
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About This Beer
To craft it, the Hardywood holiday heroes started with a rich base brewed with fresh baby ginger, vanilla beans, wildflower honey, and cinnamon for all the flavors of a gingerbread cookie. Then they aged it for 12 weeks in a combination of A. Smith Bowman and Heaven Hill bourbon barrels so each sip is extra merry and bright.
Tasting Notes
Decadent nuances of woody molasses, dark chocolate, and fresh-baked gingerbread course through every quaff. Hints of oaky vanilla and treacly honey carry underneath, wrapping up an untraceable 12.2% ABV like a present under the tree.
Rich
Barrel Aged
Smooth
Decadent
Dessert Inspired
Oaky
Spiced
Noteworthy Ingredients
Bourbon Barrels
Ginger
Honey
Cinnamon
Vanilla Bean
Reviews
4.02
37 Ratings
desmond72
5.0
This is an excellent beer!! Subtle notes of ginger making it perfect during winter months. Pairs well with a full bodied cigar.
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MitchGordon
3.25
lots of raw ginger and I was hoping for more gingerbread cookie. not sure I’d buy it again but I wouldn’t be mad to have it again
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darundgren
4.25
Tasty treat. Hardywood balances holiday sweet side flavors as good as anyone out there. RIP to these adorable stubby bottles, too.
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casey1742
3.0
Ginger was too much
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mark6988
4.5
Boozy, bourbon, dry, ginger, and spiced chocolate.
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jody244
5.0
everything you loved about the gingerbread stout but 10x better. all the spices with bourbon. I fully regret not getting two or seven of these when I had the chance lol. fantastic
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UberschallEL34
3.25
semi lame, not a lot of gingerbread - not a crap beer but certainly has muted flavors
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richard4266
3.5
okay but flavors of cinnamon/ginger detracted
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