Getting Tired of Bourbon Barrel Stouts?

To my knowledge, the only time a barrel aged beer has been available in my rural market was a few weeks ago, when we got BCBS (none of the variants) for the first time ever.

 

Its okay to give your palate a break. BA stouts are pretty much over-the-top in flavour and there's only so much a palate can take. Switch it up, drink something else for a while, come back to it in a few months.

 

Yes, yes I do feel ya. I took a 180 and went straight to sours.....

 

I never tire of a well made BA Stout.

 

Same here OP..getting kind of burned out on BA stouts. Even if they are the really good ones. The good part is you can just cellar them properly, and come back to them when you're ready!

 

I like BAs sometimes, but they can be way to sweet and over-the-top like Stevedore said. I also feel like many people think just because a stout is barrel aged it's automatically good.

 

You may all send your spares to me

Is everyone as tired as that old cliche comment as you are of Barrel Aged stouts?

 

Yes

Tired of them.

Only want a few per year.

 

Barrel aged stouts certainly get a lot of attention, but I think their popularity peak has already passed. I think the peak of BA stouts was when Black Tuesday was released and the hype train has been moving to sours. There are so many brewers doing barrel-aged beers these days that it's not nearly as unique as it once was. I also think the recent surge in low-ABV/session beers my have pulled attention away from the big BA stouts, but maybe that's just me.

 

*Marshawn Lynch's Voice*

Yeah

I'm finding that I don't enjoy them all that much. Only on a 'now and again' kind of basis.

 

Your ultimate answer would be Tart of Darkness... But all jokes aside,Go back to drinking Budweiser for a bit and come back to them after you've aged a few. I have found this is a good way to calibrate your palate and start fresh.

 

I kind of equate it to a big rich dessert. Can only take so much of the over the top flavors.

 

Agreed! Last weekend at the Kuhnhenn Winter Solstice, I much preferred the regular 4D to the BB4D. To each his own I guess

 

I had a similar revelation last week. I was drinking a bourbon barrel aged stout and thinking that it was great but not as great as the cabernet barreled version of the same stout. I figure that part of the reason has to be that the market is much more saturated with bourbon barreled beers than with other barrels. I still love bourbon barrel aged imperial stouts but at this point I've had so many that it is becoming increasingly difficult to wow me in the style.

 

I definitely feel ya. I dont have the same lust for the style that I used to. that said, I still love barrel aged beers. BA Barleywine is my current favorite. Love barrel aged Old Ales as well

 

I'm tired of mediocre non-adjunct BA stouts for sure. I tend to keep trying them, but I really should just be sticking to the tried and true ones.

 

It's hard to get tired of a style of beer when there are so many different styles of beer to choose from

 

I like to drink them on special occasion. Otherwise, I would probably get fat as hell, if i drank them often.

 

No. /endthread

 

I try to stick to the BA stouts in the colder months and sours in the warmer months. It keeps me from from stout burn-out.

 

nope

 

I still love BA stouts and especially well made ones without added ingredients, such as BCBS and Rare DOS (not to say I don't love some coffee and vanilla on occasion.)

 

Yup, this is where I'm at, as well. Do I want to drink a BA stout every night? No. But I find that when it starts to get cold, I do genuinely crave stouts/BA stouts about 95% of the time (and during the summer I crave almost exclusively IPAs/DIPAs).

As others have mentioned, a well-made BA stout is good enough that I don't really get tired of them. I've actually been on a tear lately, ever since BCBS dropped (for obvious reasons). While I don't want one every day, my mouth has been spoiled by drinking some of the best of the best.

 

Yes.

 

I just usually steer clear of a lot of the "low end" BBAs. The right ones, in my mind, aren't dominated by the bourbon. Even ones that are relatively well liked, like dragon's milk, don't do it for me anymore.

 

I used to spend a lot of time chasing Bourbon barrel aged beers until I finally had an epiphany.

What's the best tasting alcoholic beverage to come out of a Bourbon barrel?

BOURBON!

 

No. Two of my favorite things combined, beer and bourbon. What's not to love? I still drink both non-BBA brews and bourbon on its own, but BBA stouts, they hold a special place in my heart. Now am I sick of the lunacy that accompanies the limited releases? Yes.

 

No

 

Agree with this 100%. Don't think I could drink one every night. That's why I stick with a select few different BA stouts, and maybe drink one every other week or so.

 

I thought I was being over-run with them, then I reorganized my cellar and set some aside for next year and beyond. Now I have a good mix of styles to enjoy for the next 30-60 days.

 

For me a stout has to have at least 4 out of 5 of the following characteristics to get anywhere near my palate:

1. 13%+ ABV
2. Aged in a rare spirit/wine barrel
3. Additional flavoring ingredients (chocolate from Mexico, vanilla from Madagascar, coffee from any mammal's digestive tract)
4. A low bottle count
5. A trade history that shows at least five confirmed instances of trading for 10x or more it's purchase cost

It's the age we live in.

 

Huge/intense beers like BA stouts are great but they're not every-day drinkers. Hell, for me they're maybe once-a-month drinkers. Any more than that and palate fatigue sets in. This is true, by the way, for other intense beers, like sours.

Lately I've been pretty content to rock basic pale ales, lower ABV IPAs, single stouts or porters, weizens, pils/lagers/etc. Nice, easy daily drinkers.

 

Not at all. They're not all done well, but the ones that are beat out any other style of beer for me.

 

Yeah I will say, if you were to ask me if I'd pay $50 for a DIPA (probably my favorite style of beer), I'd instantly tell you no. If you asked me that about a BA Stout, I'd say, "which one?" The well done ones (hell, even a few of the non-BA ones) are like works of art (not to say other beers aren't, but these ones just feel like art in a bottle).

 

I actually laughed when I saw this topic. I see that a few others are also burnt out on them, but no, I am not tired of barrel aged stouts. Planning on having some Black Tuesday Christmas Eve.

 

This so much.

 

I can't afford enough BA beer to get burnt out on them.

Just buy a nice pils, change it up. Variety is the spice of life.