4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle, tnx thewolf! Aroma has lots of (overripe & dried) fruits, chocolate, hint of spice, caramel, nuts and bourbon. Dark, reddish brown coloured with a thin, off-white head. The taste is sweet, bit bitter with all the fruity/chocolate/nutty malt and bourbon flavours. Medium-full bodied. Lingering palate. Remarkable good beer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50 cl bottle. Dark brown with medium beige head. Flavour is roasted malt, sweet, dried fruit and spices.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2007 bottle
Pours black with beige head.
Aroma is malty, hoppy with some faint notes of spices.
Taste has a lot of roastiness, chocolate-caramel malts. Spices are very subtle. Lightly hoppy.
Superb beer, very drinkable.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle: Dark brown, almost black, large foamy beige head, fairly sticky lacing. Don’t see too many Norsk beers that look this
good! Rich roasted malt nose, slight charred wood, a touch of lactose like sweetness. Perhaps a slight hint of some sort of
spice, too little to pinpoint as of yet. Roasty flavor, slight coffee bean, muted spices, perhaps a bit of that charred wood and ash.
Good malt base, the hop aspect is low. Drinks like a really spiced up Porter. Body and mouthfeel are average. Clean
finish, lingering lactose sweetness. Pretty impressed! I look forward to trying a few of their others.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Dark brown with a red hue. Small beige, creamy head. Roasted aroma with a definite citrus nose from the hops employed.Flavour starts sweet, balanced by good bitterness. Nice and complex with hints of coffee and dark chocolate and some citrus fruits. Oily, full body. Delicious, not very unlike the Nøgne Ø Porter (and quite different from traditional Norwegian Christmas beer).
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared at CapFlu’s tasting after GCBF. Very dark brown. Thin brownish cream head. Licorice and alcohol nose. Flavour of alcohol, chocolate and licorice.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle - under the Winter Ale moniker. Black pour with a foamy brown head. Aroma is sweet and nutty with caramel, toasted malt, soft spice, chocolate and dark fruit. Taste is sweet malt, caramel, roasted malt, chocolate, soft spice, dark fruit, light vanilla and cocoa. Body is medium with a mild, foamy carbonation. Ends with more roasted malt, light coffee, chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, soft vanilla, spice notes, and sweet malt.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Brandon, Fl. - Kingdom Liquors - 500 ml bottle - labeled "Winter Ale". Dark chocolate colored pour - edging to black. Mocha colored head - thins out quickly. Aroma of licorice, fresh black potting soil. Pipe tobacco makes its way into the flavor as well as some Christmas spices, potting soil, bitter day old coffee rounds it out. Thick, creamy mouthfeel. Excellent winter warmer.
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