Dark Horse 4 Elf Winter Ale

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Marshall, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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12oz bottle poured into glass. Shared at a recent tasting. Well it’s never too late for Christmas beers in my eyes and this one definitely brought the X-mas goods. Smells and taste like a Christmas basket of goodies: spice, earthy notes, slight cinnamon and brown sugar. Probably my new favorite Christmas beer I’ve had this year.

Smells like a bubblegummy and pumpkin pie spiced car wreck. I would take a normal winter warmer.

12 ounce thanks to Unclerudy. Definitely an X-mas beer. Spiced and malty. Clove and nutmeg. Dark body. Decent.

Tap at the Cask, Pimlico - 28/12/12. Obscured dark mahogony brown with a thin tan head that clears to the edge and forms a film. Nose is liqourice, aniseed, burnt toffee, dark malt, a touch medicinal. Taste comprises sweet sugars, dark malts, toffee, herbs, spice, liqourice, dark chocolate in the background. Full end of medium bodied with soft carbonation and a touch of booze in the finish. Decent warming stuff for a winters day!

Spicy aroma and dark brown appearance with a complex taste and mildly lingering mouthfeel. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tap. Pours brown with rust color head. Faint pie spice aroma. Taste is sweet with fig and spice

This beer has great spices and wonderful aroma it's make you feel like your drinking a gingerbread house and I personally feel that it ages well also. I pulled one straight from the cellar and put one in fridge to see if there was any difference and the cellar (55f) had more aroma and flavor than the really cold one from the fridge this beer will never leave the cellar unless it goes straight into a glass ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottled. Poured cola brown with a smoked beige head. The aroma picked up cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg over lightly toasted vanilla beans and chocolate.. molasses came through as it warmed.. malty overall, with an interesting spice component. The flavor found molasses, semi-sweet chocolate, and vanilla at the core, with cardamom and cinnamon laced throughout.. a touch sour and warm on the spicy finish. Medium-bodied with moderate carbonation on the palate.. spices grew in intensity as it warmed up.. this was good stuff that I’d drink more of if available.

12oz bottle-trade with jtclockwork-pours lt tan-brown. A-rich dark malt-molasses/tobacco, dark fruit. T- rich dark malt-molasses/tobacco/leather, dark fruit.

tap at 9a ...deep brown ... thin tan head ... hge spice ... chocolate and pumpkin ... dark soft roast ... big malts ... chewy chocolate ... dark chocolates ... little too cold