Dogwood Winter Ale 2003 (Special Edition)

Formerly brewed at Dogwood Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Hazy reddish-brown. Spicy aroma (cinnamon, nutmeg) with some breadcrusty dark malts. Similar flavour profile - nicely balanced with the spices accentuating the sweetness and vice versa.

Cant catch me I’m the gingerbread man. :) Tasted like a gingerbread cookie. mmmm... cinnamon and spice and everything nice. word.

Brown with a muddy brown head. Smells like a fuckin ginger bread man. Check that, it smells like a fuckin ginger bread house. Tastes like, of couse, gingerbread. Not as good as the regular i had back in the day, but still pretty tame and good.

I had to do some hunting to figure out that this was the special edition. Deep red color with a small off white head. The ginger bread cookie aroma was what gave this away as the special edition. Dang, that is a really gingery taste. Lots of spieciness, too much in fact. Very tingly in the mouth. Not too good.

My bottle says nothing about a special addition, however if this is a Dubbel than I am out of my mind and so is this web site. The descriptions here sound more convincing as to what I’m drinking. Pours a really scarlet brown. Head dies really fast. Beer is loosely carbonated. Nose is very very spicy. Notes of cinnamon, nutmeg and about a pound and a half of cloves. Like a clove punch to the face. Flavors are very tinny. Cloves pervade and then this gives way to a very pronounced rusty...maybe phenolic like flavor. Very offputting. Not tasty...ewww. Not sure if I can finish it. G-rat

I have got to admit it, I hated this beer. I’d go so far as to day it was the worst beer I’ve ever had. It tasted kind of like a ginger snap, and you know, I like ginger snaps. But it doesn’t work for this beer. I can’t imagine ginger working for any beer, to be honest. No sir, do not drink this beer.

I am curious to see how this ages the longer I keep it around. I will try it again after a year has gone by. A very nice spicy X-mas beer, with some ginger spice and lots of malt, that is slightly watery but has a decent hop profile. Has some nice chocolate coffee flavors mixed with nutmeg and clove.

Minimal head, brown/red body. Very christmas-like spicy aroma.... ginger, cinnamon, maybe licorice and chocolate. Flavor is decent... same spices and chocolate show up. Body is a little lacking and watery.