3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a dark ruby brown with a finger of off white head that dissipates fairly quickly to a film. Leaves some nice lacing on snifter. Can smell caramel and fig on the nose with a hint of apple and some spicing. More of a roasty flavor than expected along with some nutmeg and slight sweet fruit taste. A roasty tasting bitter that borders on astringent. Not too bad a beer but I enjoyed the nose more than the taste.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz bottle. Pours a reddish brown with a two-finger off-white head and nice lacing. The aroma is mostly malty with some hops. Taste is malty with brown sugar, maple syrup, and coffee. Very good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle to wine glass. Pours hazy brown with red hues and a foamy tan head. Aroma is malty with caramel, nutmeg, and raisin. Taste is malt with the hops coming through at the end. Slight sweetness. Bitterness is more roasted than piney or grassy. It clings to the tongue the more you drink and became somewhat unpleasant to my taste. Mouthfeel is a little slick and dry.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pint on tap. Really interesting spin on the style. Drawn from a nitro-tap, it looks spectaular, walnut-black & opaque with a tan collar. All the different hops create a great bouquet absent from other beers of the style. Taste is wonderful, it’s a great marriage of traditional style and artisan craftsmanship, in my opinion. Full-bodied beer with medium aftertaste and linger.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
It’s definitely a good beer- the winter spices are subtle and it has a nice hoppiness-, but the bitterness that follows sticks around way too long. It’s not even a hoppy bitter, it’s like squirting grapefruit juice on coffee beans and eating it... which I did growing up, I was a dumb kid. Good beer, though. Just not great.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle. Pours a hazy dark brown with red hues. Aroma of dried cherries, fig, caramel, raisin. Flavor is grain, dried fruit, brown sugar, caramel, pine.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a deep amner-brown with a medium, off-white head (excellent retention and mad lacing). Nose is deep roasted malts, maple syrup, caramel , butterscotch and (for lack of a better word) Christmas. Mouth is porter-esque with dark roasted malts and coffe notes up front, some cocoa, caramel, maple and toffee on the back end. Pleasantly lingering, bitter finish. Good stuff. Welcome to Chicago, Deschutes! And a belated Merry Christmas.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Chestnut-to-mahogany color, big head of mixed-form density. Fennel, tobacco, chocolate, toast aroma. Great label on the 25th anniversary bottle. Richer aroma as it warms. A little alcohol noted. Bitterness in the finish. Reasonably good but I didn’t enjoy it enough to like a whole bottle. Bottle.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear dark amber pour with thick off white head. Aroma of malts, caramel, bread and yeast. Taste of malts, caramel, toffee, slightly nutty and a mild hop bitterness that lingered. Very good beer.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from trade with michaelinwa. Pours a very dark amber color with a nice frothy head that lingers a bit. Aromas are caramel, toffee, vanilla, fruit cake, and brown sugar. Taste is slightly sweet, lots of caramel, toffee and fruit cake. Finish is a bit dry and abrupt. Medium body and somewhat chewy mouthfeel. A pretty solid malty and sweet winter ale.
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