Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome Ale

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: English Strong Ale
Tadcaster, England

500 mL bottle poured into a pint glass. Orange-amber color with a frothy light tan head. Aroma is sweet and doughy with toffee and nuts. Flavor is bready and sugary with a mild metallic note and a lightly grassy/earthy hop finish. Medium body with substantial carbonation. Too sweet to be particularly drinkable.

Poured a good quality amber colour with nice lasting white head. Oats and malt, nice sugary mouthfeel. Nice long finish. Quite a cheeky little number! A bit in there that I lack the vocabulary and knowledge to expand on. Enjoyed this a lot.

This beer is often skunked (at least in America). As long as Samuel Smith’s insists on putting their beer in clear glass bottles, I shall remain wary of purchasing it. All I can say is ask the bartender or retail clerk when the beer arrived to protect your purchase. Seek this beer out...if it is fresh! Stong malty aromas; slight hop touch, most likely a flavoring hop. I like the subtle sweetness of the smell. Orange to dark amber in color, clear. Nice creamy head that has good staying power and leaves thin lace as the beer is consumed Surprising hop on the front of the tasting. A full creamy malt flavor is present and well-balanced with a bitterness that makes for a complex experience. The aftertaste is very long lasting and remains an excellent balance of mellow malt and zesty hop. Clearly a superior beer with excellent balance all around where all of the ingredients are noticeable. Savor the flavor profile, where the liquid transforms the flavor the longer you are able to concentrate. and then exposed to the light).

Warm amber color with nice head. Aroma of malt, some friutiness, and slight sweetness. Flavor is similarly of light, warming malts, mild candi sugar body, and some fruitiness. An easy drinking, modestly flavorful winter warmer.

Subtle, not spectacular. Dark fruit, alcohol aroma...oaty, porridge, bread body and flavours with some light floral/fruity mix just peeping through.

Pours an orange amber with a nice off white head. Shows medium carbonation. The nose is sweet malt and a touch of hop. Almost a light hint of butterscotch in the background. Taste follows the malty sweet path and then a nice light bitterness on the finish. I always look forward to this beer each Winter.

From the 550 ml. bottle 2008-2009 batch with the mark of SI09H1. The pour is an attractive reddish-amber with a decent tan, puffy head and good lacing. The aroma is slightly malted and hoppy. Medium mouthfeel. Kind of bitter flavor and a tad tart. It was Not really bad but I don’t expect I would buy another.

really mellow with bright flavor that is sweet malty and hoppy a favorite of mine from the start. aged fruit feel of alcohol and it is warming and indeed welcome. aroma like a fishtank right from the bottle but it mellows rather fast and exudes the fruit essence. i am not going to exactly be able to explain why i like this but i like it. peach like perfume to it almost apricot mouthfeel feel and the yeast surprisingly good !