River Horse Belgian Freeze Winter Ale

Brewed by River Horse Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Lambertville, New Jersey USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Very Bubbly for a winter beer so pour slowly. This winter brew is the perfect compliment to a snowy night

Dark pour with malty bread and cereal aroma. Taste is smooth caramel and toasted barley. Rated 8/23/04

nice brew indeed. pours a clear dark brown. little head. aroma is sweet. full of fruits, banans, even some passion fruit. flavor is banana, sweet malts, and honey. nice brew indeed.

mmm a winter time favourite. malty smells of bread and caramel, toasted hops and earthiness. a hint of banana/vanilla. ruby-brown in colour with a thin wispy off-white head . medium sweetness vitrually no bitterness. smooth and medium body with average fizziness. finish is long and tends toward the earthy/toasted malts.

Dark amber/brown pour tan head aroma of sweet malts and a little bready ..... taste of dark fruits (raisins), belgian candi and belgian yeast, caramel and bready malts with a light bitter finish .... ABV hidden well just a little too sweet and not balanced looks better than it tastes

bottle poured a dark amber color with some hefty floating particles when held to the light. aroma has sweet dark malt, dark fruit, light spice, and some yeast. mouth feel is medium and it has low carbonation. flavor has brown malt, caramel, spices, and a mineral twang on the finish.

Cold in a pint glass. Pours a very dark amber and quite cloudy. Massive ripe banana aroma and flavor hits at a thick rich mouth feel but its just not there. Its basically a sweet caramel, banana, malty taste with some odd mineral finish. Its a little sweet for my taste but its not a bad brew. In this case, the aroma and the flavor are are one in the same - a one dimensional brew thats not going to offend you - but, on the other hand, its not great either.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of malts, cocoa, slight maple syrup, a hint of dark ripe fruit, and light caramel. Poured brown/deep amber in color with a medium,-sized, dense, tan head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Lightly sparkling. Full of tiny, small, and HUGE particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of malts, cocoa, slight wood, and light caramel. Where is the Belgian yeast? Medium body. Slick, slightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, cocoa, and slight wood finish. 8%ABV is hidden throughout.

Bottle: Pours a transparent dark copper mahogany with a frothy, spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet toasty biscuity Belgian malts and dark candi sugar with some light fruity esters. Starts with good fullness and a doughy dark caramel malty sweetness with some raisin complexity and clove spice before a drier, slightly warming bready finish. A very true to style and enjoyable brew.

From a bottle poured amber with a fair amount of head. Strong malty sweet flavor with a lingering aftertaste.