Blue & Gray Spiced Winter Ale

Brewed by Blue & Gray Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Fredericksburg, Virginia USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Thanks to weearepennstate. Pours a lightly hazy deep amber with orange notes and smaller bubbly off white head. Aroma of ginger, brown sugar, caramel, nuts and other notes of cinnamon, cardamom and orange. Flavor of was a mix of the same. Getting some candy sweet notes out of the flavor as well.

I believe I picked this up at the Alexandria Whole Foods last winter. Reviewed from notes. Pours a moderately dark brown with a faint tan head. Right from the start, the nose is just a spice explosion. Way more clove, cinnamon, ginger, and other spicing than I could possibly handle. The taste is even more over the top, as the spicing goes to a whole new level and I feel like I’m drinking a glass of carbonated water with Rudolph’s spice cabinet poured into it. Feel consists of a medium body with a dryness from all the spices. Drinkability is quite poor. This is not something I would recommend. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 10-15-2010

Bottle shared at the DC Local tasting. Bomber pours a translucent amber brown with a cloudy, dusty, slightly eggshell head. Heavy spice aroma, cloves, nutmeg, ginger with the sweetness of fall root vegetables, some orange too. Flavor is more spice, all spice, cloves, brown sugar, toast, oranges. Dry finish. No alcohol presence.

22oz bottle. Cloudy garnet-brown body with small tan head. Aroma is moderately sweet, ginger, allspice, some anise. Taste is moderately sweet, orange, ginger, some allspice, light clove. Medium body, low carbonation.

Bottle shared by argo0: Transparent dark copper amber with a thin ring of wispy white head. Aroma of sweet toasty caramel, licorice, cinnamon and pumpkin spice. Starts with average fullness and a semi-sweet doughy caramel malts with a decent balance of cinnamon and nutmeg spice before a more bitter watery finish with some lingering black licorice and light astringency. An ok spiced winter ale.

Bottle courtesy of dkachur on 08/01/2009. Clear dark amber / brown body with a small frothy off-white head. Big butter, nut, and gingerbread cookie aroma. Dry malt flavor with some nuttiness. Medium body with moderately low carbonation.

22 ounce bottle from Wine & Beer Westpark. Pours a hazy reddish brown color with a thin head. Aroma is big spices including ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon along with a little butterscotch and caramel. Taste is butterscotch with mild spiced and a faintly tart note. Medium bodied.

Poured a lightly hazy, amber color with a thin, light tan head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, caramel, and light nuts. Taste of brown sugar, cinnamon, caramel, nutmeg, and just all around spicy.

22oz bottle shared courtesy of weearesomeguywhocomesover138. Poured a medium and hazy amber color with a smaller sized white head. The name of this beer was spot on. Lots of spices, ginger, holiday spices, yankee Christmas candles with some caramel. Tastes of the same spices. If your bad is Christmas spices, get this one.

22 oz bottle. Pours a medium dark orange color with a small white head. Aroma is holiday spices, caramel. Flavor is again, holiday spices, though as others have said, it has characteristics of a pumpkin beer. Not a bad entry in a category that usually sees very mediocre beers.