Point St. Benedicts Winter Ale

I quite like this beer. It has a malty roasted and sweet aroma with floral hints. The beer is clear and a deep dark brown without much head to speak of. The flavor is nice, almost like a weizenbock, with roasty malt flavors and bananna & clove hints. The palate is smooth and the beer is very easy drinking for all the flavor.

Sampled from bottle: This beer pours a clear dark reddish colour with a very small thin amber head. The beer carries a very pleasent aroma. Dates, honey, carmel and apricots. Has flavors of grapes, carmel, toffee and honey. Medium bodied, doesn’t represent a dubbel as much as it could. But still tastey.

12oz bottle. garnet pour with small short beige head. aroma of malt and banana. relatively muted taste of bubble gum, smoke, spice and slight bitterness. not necessarily pleasant taste.

Clean dark red pour with a medium head. A bit stinky first smell but that goes away after drinking it. Very sweet with a lot of character, like molasses and caramel, ginger and clove with just a bit of wine fruit taste. Good beer but rich. one is enough.

On tap at Hudson’s in Plover, WI. Pours a clear, deep amber with long-lasting meringue head. Good lacing. Aroma is moderately nutty & spicy. First taste is nutty maltiness with a dash of vanilla. Some fruitiness follows with a surprising spiciness in the finish. Medium mouthfeel but excellent carbonation from a tapper. Never got to try it from a bottle but would definitely ask for it again on tap. Very good.