Hi-Wire Bourbon Barrel Aged Winter Warmer

Review Date 7/12/2024 By John Staradumsky

  Style: Winter Warmer   Brewery: Hi-Wire   Country: USA   State: North Carolina   $ Per OZ: $.33 (B)   ABV: 7.5%

It’s here! Christmas in July! Yay! Every winter, I stock up on Christmas and wintere seasonal beers. I enjoy them through the season, through Vhristmas, New Years, and into January and February. I also set some aside for the following July, and break them out for my annual Christmas in July celebration.

One beer, however, that I did not save last year was Hi-Wire Bourbon Barrel Aged Winter Warmer. That’s because I had never saw it last year. Still, in late June of this year I had to deliver a package to a hotel in Alpharetta for work, and giess what? The hotel was right next to the local Total Wine store. I stopped in and bought some beers, and one of them just happened to be Hi-Wire Bourbon Barrel Aged Winter Warmer. Just in time for Christmas in July!

Hi-Wire says:

This beer will warm you right up, with or without sitting by a fire. Meet our Bourbon Barrel Aged Winter Warmer – a symphony of flavors that embodies the cozy embrace of the colder months. This beer was brewed with fresh orange peel, nutmeg, and cinnamon before resting on bourbon barrels, infusing it with the rich essence of charred oak, chewy toffee, soft vanilla, and the deep, warming notes of bourbon. Drinkers can expect a rich malt body with big chewy caramel, a touch of roast, and a bouquet of winter aromas from the spices.

Hi-Wire Bourbon Barrel Aged Winter Warmer has an alcohol content of 7.5% by volume and I paid $6.99 for a pint can at Total Wine. They did not have any 4-packs left that I found, but their website says it sells for $20.99 that way when they have them. My can had no freshness dating. The beer is aged in Bulleit bourbon barrels.

Hi-Wire Bourbon Barrel Aged Winter Warmer pours to a dark mahogany color with a moderate head of creamy tan foam and a nose of dark malts, dark fruit and boozy bourbon. Taking a sip, the beer is medium to full in body and immediately in your face with dark malty goodness. It’s chocolaty, hints at caramel, and cookieish. It’s also toasty nutty, and oh so dark fruity with raisin and a hint of fig. It’s a tad woody, and quite boozy with bourbon notes, especially in the finish. I also get mince pie, orange citrus zest, drying nutmeg and cinnamon in the finish.

A truly delicious and complex beer with a contact parade of notes across the tongue. You get something different with each sip, it was reminiscent of a figgy pudding with flaming bourbon atop.

You know I will be on the lookout for more of this.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??