Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome Ale

Got this one in a sampler pack as a Christmas present. Pours copper with a bubbly beige had. The aroma has light bready toffee, some butter, toasted malt and spiced hops. Medium / thick body with some semi-sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with toasted caramel malt, sourish licorice and dry spices. The finish is fairly astringent, spicy and sour. An okay beer.

golden copper color beige head lets a nice layer on the beer smells of dried plums and pears, some yeast, malt and hops,some caramel creamy carbonated tasts of malt, hops,fruit and hidden caramel aftertaste has fruityness and a nice bittersweetness and some hidden dried pears

Pours an amber color with light to medium head that quickly dissipates. Not as much spice as other christmas beers but has almost bourbon undertones. A sugary holiday beer. Sweet and syrupy in body unlike others. Hops are mild. Okay but not what I look for in a holiday/christmas beer. Too sweet/syrupy.

2007 version. Yellowish amber color. Medium head. Soft malts and mild English hops. Medium bodied. Soft on the palate, possibly due to the water used to make it. Candy sugar and a bit of citrus and pine to dry it out. Overall a pretty mild easy drinking beer.

Poured this 2007 edition into a nonick pint on 12-05-07. 2 knuckle off white ead and a nice orange amber color. Floral grass and pine hops along with malt to the nose. First taste is Light floral, citrus (mostly lemon), and pine. Aftertaste is piney. A creamy medium body with pleasant carbonation. The aroma led me to think this would be hoppier. Still good! As it warms the piney a citrus really come out.

2007 bottle. small white head into clear amber body (some spakling present) decent lacing. aromas of vinousnous, moderate caramel, hops, some spices. flavor is moderately sweet and bitter throughout. finish has a moderate duration. Pretty good stuff.

2007-2008 bottle poured a light copper in color with a nice one finger head on the top and a good burst of carbination on the pour. aroma is sweet fruit, malt, apple, maple, and pear. taste has heavy carbination, mid light on mouth feel, sweet malt and fruit, sweet fig perhaps, and finishes on the shorter side leaving a nice candied fruit on the tongue. really a smooth drinker, good alc %, nice brew. and to make it tastier it was bought by my mother in law for me to have with christmas eve dinner.

Pours a light amber. Aroma of malts with hints of apple and clove. Malty flavor balanced by hop bitterness. Hints of brown sugar and cinnamon. Lingering alcohol finish.