Uinta Brewing Cockeyed Cooper:
Hello all and welcome to another beer review for the minority of beer drinker out there.  Yes friends, today we once again look at a barely wine beer, that delectable style of beer that seems to alienate 9 out of 10 people who are beer drinkers.  The while the beer’s style isn’t exactly a for sure seller to me, the fact that this was aged in bourbon barrels does elevate it in my mind (yeah, I’m easy to sway); so what does this brew out of Salt Lake have to offer?  Well Uinta Brewing has put out Cockeyed Cooper a big bottled barley wine that is a part of their crooked line of beers and is aged in bourbon barrels at least 6 months.  The beer pours a hazy amber color with hints of brown in the brew, a nice lightly carbonated head of foam and a nose of roasted malts, piney hops, and hints of brown sugar and sweet booze notes.  The beer’s initial taste is a nice thick malt flavor with a grape juice undertone that moves to a piney hop mid tongue that has hints of caramel and roasted malts while the back end is a combo of all these flavors with just enough vanilla to give one the idea that this may have seen the inside of a bourbon barrel at some point.  A very nice and mellow barley wine and should be enjoyed like a dark English beer (cool, not cold) and enjoyed slowly, very slowly because this is the type of beer that doesn’t sneak up on you but lets you know from first sip that it’s heavy in the booze department.  A great beer but just beware, it’s probably best enjoyed by the seasoned and adventurous beer drinker.