Barrel aged Vanilla flavored recommendations?

It's not aged on vanilla but I get noticeable vanilla flavor from central waters bourbon barrel stout.

 

agreed,topnotch stuff man.

 

If you homebrew-
Buy a bottle of Dragons milk, open it, insert a vanilla bean (split the vanilla bean first) - Recap it with your capper
Wait a week, enjoy.

 

That's a good idea. How does the carbonation hold up?

 

Prairie Vanilla Noir is a good 11.5% aged in oak-barrels stout. I don't know if it's up in New England, tho'.

 

So-so. Sometimes I've seen it hold up well, other times not as well.

Sometimes the vanilla flavor is too much, especially if you do it a little bit too long, so if you blend it back in with a bottle of regular dragons milk you can find a good balance of carbonation/vanilla flavor.

Popped a bottle of BCS I did this with last night, had put a 1/2 vanilla bean in there for what was about a month, and it was too much vanilla for me. Still good, just more than I wanted. Carbonation level was a little lower but still fine for me as BCS is very low carb to begin with. It was very good, but would have been improved if I would have opened another bottle of regular BCS to blend with. Unfortunately I didn't want to drink that much.

 

Just pour some ten fidy over some vanilla ice cream

 

I had some vanilla last weekend...while I liked it, I was disappointed in the amount of vanilla that came through. Actually, I was disappointed in the framinghammer in general -- maybe I went in expecting too much?

 

Or get a Randall Jr. and add some vanilla beans to the mix. I do it all the time to my Ten Fidy and love it!

 

+1 on Dragon's Milk. Year round and fantastic. Available in 22oz and 4packs

 

I'm not sure if it's barrel aged, but SOUTHERN TIER CREME BRULEE has an exquisite vanilla taste and smell. The smell is almost intoxicating itself.

 

Just trade with someone from Mass to get a Vanilla Framinghammer - I know it's not "easy" so to speak, but it's definitely worth it and you don't have to give up that much since it's on a lot of shelves still.

 

Speaking of Vanilla. Did y'all know that much of "vanilla flavoring" is actually derived from a beaver's anus gland? Now, perhaps many beers use the bean itself instead of aformentioned rodent by-product, but does anyone have knowledge of breweries using the "extract"? Myself, I don't have a problem w/ it. Consuming an animal's rump roast is no worse than gnawing on their internal organs. Like an Apache, I waste none of the buffalo. Just curious.

 

Many Mexican brands of vanilla extract actually use the bean. Very distinguishable flavor, too IMO.

 

Firestone Walker Double Double Barrel Ale
Barrel Aged Naked Evil
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti

 

Hunapu.

 

I drank one of these fresh...wasn't that impressed. Anyone think this one would benefit from aging? I'm holding on to one more bottle.