Captain Lawrence Nor’ Easter Winter Warmer

Brewed by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Elmsford, New York USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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750 ml bottle poured a clear dark reddish brown with a small lingering brown head. Aromas of berries, bourbon, oak, coconu and toffee. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of berries, bourbon, oak, coconut and toffee with a crisp dry lingering coconut finish.

Bottle. Pours almost black. Tan head. Nose/taste of elderberry, vinous notes, oak, bourbon barrel, Belgian yeast, fig and very sweet dark fruits. Sweet mouth feel with a lingering alcohol finish. Medium body.

Bottle acquired via trade with tgncc...thanks Tom!!! Dark plum colored pour with a whispy eggshell head. Aroma of dark fruit, tart cherry skins, elderberry (I guess), oak, vanilla, and caramel. Flavor is similar with a lot of the sour berry skins finding their way to the palate. Definitely more puckering than I was expecting but was a fan of it. The ABV is masterfully hidden. This one is sneaky!

Pours deep mahogany into a Trappist glass. Mocha head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Dried fruit and earthy chocolate aromas. Medium bodied with sweet caramel and bourbon front to back turning to a warming chocolate covered elderberry finish.

Dark brown-black mahogany color with a thin, medium-fine, light brown head. Aroma consists of caramel and vanilla bourbon barrel notes along with roasted malt and subtle dark fruity notes with cocoa in the background. Dark flavor profile offers some roasted malt astringency with soft chocolate, caramel, and vanilla notes followed by subtle tart blue fruit characteristics. Alcohol flavors are delicately assertive with some oak aspects rounding out the finish. The medium body conveys an excellent malt and alcohol balance which is supplemented by a final fruity lightness.

750 ml bottle into goblet, batch 5. Pours hazy extremely dark brown color with a dense 1 finger light tan head with good retention that reduces to a small ring of lacing. A bit of lacing clings to the glass as well. Aromas of big bourbon, caramel, dark fruits, and molasses; with a bit of booze as well. Some nice strong aromas here, decent balance as well. Taste of big dark fruits(elderberries?) with some caramel and light bourbon on the front; leading to some licorice, molasses, spice, and a bit of slight tartness in the back. Some lingering sweet notes on the finish for a short bit. No bitterness noticed, as expected. Nicely full and smooth body with medium carbonation. Alcohol is extremely well hidden, not noticing any at all in the taste, but there is a decent warming after the finish. Great drinkability for 12%, but still a sipper. Overall, quite a nice Belgian dark ale. Delicious and smooth drinking.

This poured almost a jet black color with a beige head. Aroma was of bourbon, dark fruits and berries and some toffee and dark sweet malt. Flavor was very malty, lesser bourbon on the taste than the aroma, and some nice berry/ overippend dark fruit in the finish. Nice

Bottle shared thx to Marsiblursi 2011-07-09 Sätila AR: infected aromas AP: pitch black, frouthy/stouthy head F : tart, elderberries, nutty, warming feeling. Batch no 4

Bomber, courtesy of Marsiblursi. Pours pitch black with a frothy light brown head leaving lace. Aroma is excellent; fresh, sourish, berry, vanilla and alcohol. Flavor is sourish, fruity, berry, malty and bitter. Thin body. Finishes bitter sour.

Bottle, thanks to Marsiblursi. Black beer, brownish head. Elderberry aroma, malty, vinous, whiskey notes, some vanilla. Sourish flavor with berries and fruit. Maybe not the best bottle or batch?