Barrel aging ever a detraction?

bigfoot over ba bigfoot
pt5 over ba
Everett over ba Everett
outside of those im hard pressed

 

Can you say Founders Doom?
There was a great beer under all that unnecessary barrel aging.

Sweet Repute did not need to go into maple syrup barrels either.

 

Can I catch a ride in your Tardis bro?
I would have domed that BA Old Ruffian.

 

The barrel aged version is even better

 

Bourbon barrel aged beers are among my favorites, but I much prefer regular Three Floyds Behemoth Barleywine to the barrel aged version. I heard people say the same thing about Kuhnhenn's Solar Eclipse stout.

 

I prefer regular Plead the 5th over the BA version. I'm not saying I don't like the BA version because I really do, I just find the regular a better beer.

 

people actually barrel age IPAs? what a bad idea. I've never seen it

 

I had Four Roses and Elijah Craig eclipse last night. While the different versions may be good/great I don't think that barrel aging really improves the base beer. Totality is a great stout on its own.

 

Yes. I have had barrel aged variations of beers that are inferior to their non-barrel aged counterparts. Usually it is a case of the barrel aging muddling the base beer's flavor. In other cases, though less often, the flavors imparted by the barrel do not complement the flavor of the base beer.