Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome Ale

29th April 2008. A pleasantly malty ale with a very light touch of hops at the end. Inoffensive and pleasant.

Pours clear light amber with a 2-finger off-white head, a thin bit of which lingers with decent lacing. A nice floral aroma with the warm malts detectable as well. A nice vanilla/caramel flavor, warm, well-balanced, with a nice lingering sweet/bitter combo. A slightly creamy mouthfeel rounds out the experience. Pleasant beer.

Bottle. Clear amber colour with a medium white head. Rich aroma and taste of caramel, fruits nad malts. Nice beer.

Pours clear caramel color with thin white head. Caramel malt aroma. Sweet caramel flavor with dark fruits. Medium body with minimal carbonation.

18.7oz bottle. Pours copper/reddish with a white thick head, with little retention. Aroma is ginger, nutmeg, bread and some caramel and malt. Flavor is sweet with Dark fruit at first with a slight malty ginger bitter taste. Good mouth feel. Very flavorful beer that fills you up good. A good Winter beer. Going to buy more.

18.7 oz. bottle- Good head, bitter mouthfeel, and flavorful. Not a bad beer, just will probably never buy again.

The first Sam Smith brew that I didn’t like. Reminds me of New Belgium’s Two Below.

bottle from KJ’s in lake dallas. poured a copperish orange color with a decent white head. aroma is sweet, caramel, fruity, orange. flavor is much the same with the addition of a good grass bitter. body was medium with high carbonation.