 jah noth (937), Rochester, New York, USA
Dec 17, 2004 This is a mighty tasty brew.Juicy fruit hops with some mild yeast. Slighty cloudy orange amber in color. Rich, sweet malt flavor, some caramel apple, some succulent honeycomb pine. Slight bitter, quick finish. An enjoyable ale.
beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Dec 26, 2005 Glowing orangish gold color with a slight smear to it. Thin, off-white cap. Finely placed, closely scattered, spotty sheets of lacing sticks across the glass.
Toasty with a big orange oil aroma starts from the pour. Very pungent, rich, oily, and deep with a well-rounded citrusy realm with notes to cannibus, the sister of hops, and some doughy fresh malts.
Taste is well oiled in citrusy hops, oily, flavor heavy with oranges, a flint of lime, lemon and tangerine, yet calmly bitter with rinds and resins, somewhat smokey with herbal nuances. Quite a nice taster. Nice malt backing thats lightly toasty and bready/doughy. The bitterness closing in the finish is delicate and nurtured to perfection with a nice amount of citrus rinds, oils, and smokeyness.
Smooth and oily textured feel from front to back. Quite silky for an IPA, even its bite tends to be smoothed out in oils and resins. Body is moderate in mediumness with a rich, soothing, quaffable, drenchable, lower carbonation that is utterly beyond average in drinkability. Damn good stuff. Winterfish would be one to bring to the frozen lakes while fishing through the ice if it were here in MN.
brewdoctor (1), Olympia, Washington, USA
does not count  Dec 30, 2005 This is really an amplified IPA to make a big beer in respect to Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale. So the golden hoppy winter seasonal is not dark for that reason. This beer is a cult beer among locals in Washington state, as it is really a strong IPA available in bottles at the supermarket about 4 months out of the year. It tends toward more crisp citrus hoppiness when young, but set some bottles aside for upto a 9 months or a year and it matures to a delightful slightly sherry toffee malty sweetness with very smooth hop notes which are well worth the wait.
Slick (1956), Minnesota, USA
Dec 30, 2003 Cloudy orange/amber color,small head that managed to stay around for a while leaving a nice lace behind.Nice fruity,piney,hop aroma with a mild sweetness to it.The flavor was malty and fruity with a nice mild spice and decent amount of hops coming through.There is a slightly creamy feeling to this brew,and the alcohol doesn't make an appearance at all.Making this a fairly well balanced brew IMOThe after taste reminds me of the 10 sq. nice and hoppy with a nice bitterness.This is another fine brew from theseguys and they still remain as my favorite brewer.Well worth finding this brew for a trial.
acrdz (4248), Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 25, 2003 Light orange with a huge head. Beautiful nose full of peach, pineapple, various hop varieties, scotch and pine. Definitely earns a 10 for aroma. Big fresh and crisp flavor of scotch, dark fruit and rum. Exceptional flavor with a very bitter and dry palate. A new favorite. Tasted this along with Cascade Lake Santa’s Little Helper and Flying Dog K-9 Crusier and WinterFish won.
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