Harpoon Winter Warmer

355ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Gosh this is crap. It’s a flavoured ale of some dire sort. There’s no character or life in the beer, so they dump in some flavouring which just serves to make a bad beer worse. Very chemical. Very medicinal. I thought the flavour was cloves, but the flavouring is supposed to be nutmeg and cinnamon! As if! This beer has to be drunk to be experienced - it tastes old and stale and flat and nasty. It’s cheap, rubbish crap. No marks for this.

Growler from Brizz 08’. Pours an off copper brown and reeks spicy nonsense. Its mulled beer really. NOt so impressed with this guy. I’m not a bigt nutmeg brew guy though.

Bottle. Nose assaults you with spices, clear amber body, small white head. Generally spicy flavors, nt much in the malt/hops department. Slight astringent bitterness.

Bottle from cdumler, who says this is awful and practically begged me to take one of his last two bottles. Pours reddish brown with a small head that disappears quickly. Aroma smells like a spice rack and not much else. Taste is a little less harsh, but still has strong cinnamon and nutmeg notes. A little watery.

Bottled. A clear amber coloured beer with a short-lived off-white head. Plenty of cinnamon all round in the predominantly malty beer. Quite a kick of spicy heat on the tongue. Has elements of sweetness, but not too much. I~ didn’t expect much, but enjoyed this.