Goodwood Bourbon Honey Ale Finish 'Sting Like a Beer'

Goodwood is a Louisville brewery with deep roots in the city's beer scene; it started out as Bluegrass Brewing Company and built its reputation on barrel-aged beers under the tagline 'Touched by Wood. Brewed with Limestone Water.' In 2019 it branched into bourbon, finishing whiskey in the same barrels its beers come out of. This release is named after one of those beers. Sting Like a Beer is Goodwood's tribute to Louisville's own Muhammad Ali: a honey ale brewed with locally sourced honey and aged solera-style in brandy barrels, so each batch carries a little of the one before it. To make the bourbon, Goodwood takes brandy barrels that have held that honey ale for at least six months and finishes the whiskey in them for three more months, so it picks up both the brandy wood and the honey beer. It's bottled at 90 proof (45% ABV). Goodwood's notes describe a nose of flowery honey and caramel with a hint of vanilla, brown sugar and molasses on the palate, and a dry, woody finish. It leans sweet and soft up front and dries out at the end, and it makes a good honey-forward Old Fashioned.

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