Alaskan Winter Ale

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Old Ale
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

Bottle from Healthy Spirits. Pours amber with a thick beige head and a toffee aroma. There is a nutty caramel malt flavor with a dry pine finish..

Alaskan Winter has a great malty taste with subtle hints of caramel, soon after comes the hoppy remnants to finish and balance the beer. Although most think dark ales for winter this ale reminds us there are still many great seasonal beers out there for us to try and enjoy.

On tap @ Firetap. Clear deep gold with a creamy off white head. Fruity aroma with some caramel and bread. Very malty flavor and some light bitterness. Medium body with average carbonation and a sweet, syrupy mouth feel. Good beer, the fruitiness lightens up the maltiness and makes it pretty drinkable.

Pours a deceptively light gold. Tastes slightly nutmegy, but finishes much like a macrobrew (with a ricy/barley finish).

12oz bottle pours copper in color with a thin off-white head. Aroma is caramel, wheat, and honey. Taste is similar to aroma very sweet all the way through not overwhelming but rather pleasant, spruce is present in the finish and works well with the sweetness. A very nice Old Ale the spruce works for this beer.

(12oz bottle). Pours clear copper with off-white head. Carbonation is nice and there is some lacing. Aroma of pine/spruce, wood, cereals. Taste is sweet initially with a raspberry quality. Medium bodied with sticky texture. Finish is a little sweet, but balanced. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice this beer is. I thought it would be a heavy beer, but its actually quite bright. I would definitely get this beer again.

Notes from Friday, October 03 2010 12 oz. bottle from Liquor Mart, Boulder Ar: Caramel malt, light spruce sap Ap: Clear amber with a 1" cream pillowy head. T: Caramel malt sweetness with a light hoppy spruce finish. P: Medium-thick body, assertive carbonation. O: Not what I expected, but all in all quite interesting and pretty good.

UPDATED: NOV 11, 2010 Tasted on tap at Old Chicago’s in Denver, Colorado. Burnt orange appearance with a thin orange-cream head. Amber body with an almost wine-like quality which is common for an Old Ale. Fruity (raspberry?) finish.