BJCP category?

[adrock430]

I brewed a cherrywood smoked baltic porter and added some bourbon...not overwhelmingly bourbon like a barrel aged beer, just a background flavor. Would this be a 22B beer or a 23 beer? The smoke is the dominant flavor between the smoke & bourbon by far.

 

[Darwin18]

I'd personally enter it into 23 if you can discern the flavor from the bourbon. The bourbon flavor/aroma would likely count against you in 22.

 

[adrock430]

I figured that was the case...its not quite bourbon-y enough to advertise it as barrel aged, will that also harm me in 23, or should I acknowledge light bourbon?

 

[daksin]

If you can taste the bourbon at all, it's definitely Specialty (cat23).