Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Bomber bottle poured a clear caramel-amber hue w/ a moderate cream-coloured head and a fair amount of lacing. Moderate aromas of caramel, honey, biscuits, and faint floral. Initial flavour is moderate sweet and a light bitter finish. Tastes are caramel, malts, figgy fruits, nuts, and honey. Light to medium bodied, average carbonation, and a big warmth in the finish.

Bottle @ Home. Pours dark amber with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, sweet fruit, hops. Flavor is malt, caramel, sweet fruit, figs, light hops. Medium body, lively carbonation. 110513

Each year has a different picture? I never knew. Haven’t had this in several years, maybe even 5, but I can pretty much guarantee it still and always tastes the same. Sweet, light dark fruits, bready, tangy. I don’t get the appeal of sammy smith’s.

Amber hue. white head that quickly disappears. Aroma of piney hops, malt and applesauce. Moderate fizz and really nice sweet but refreshing mouthfeel. Tastes of roast twigs and grapes with assertive, but not overpowering hops at the end. Very well balanced.

Smells alright, toast and cereal. Pours clear orange with a frothy white head. Tastes a little metallic, very malty. Good mouthfeel, full bodied and filling.

Bouteille 500ml. De couleur ambrée et claire. Nez malté de caramel sucré et légèrement rôti, léger de noix, d’épices et de houblon floral avec des traces fruitées (raisins) . Moyennement ronde en bouche et moyennement pétillante avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Léger goût fruité sucré (raisins, traces d’agrumes) et d’épices (cannelle, notes de poivre) lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi d’un goût assez malté de caramel sucré et légèrement rôti avec des traces de miel puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume de houblon floral ainsi que des notes de noix. Post-goût moyen-long et un peu sec, légèrement amer de houblon floral, de rôti avec des petites notes de noix. (2006)

Peliroja aspera mucho gusto como buena cerveza de season semi amarga poca espuma. No la mejor pero recomendable de igual manera.

Pours an amber color with a fluffy off white head that leaves spotty lacing. Smell of caramel, toffee, nuts and molasses. Tastes of all the same things that are in the smell but can also taste the seaweed. Mouthfeel is heavy and watery with ok carbonation and a dry finish. Overall this was a decent winter warmer but nothing spectacular. It was interesting to use seaweed in a beer.

Dec 2012 - Surprisingly light in colour. Sweet nutty flavours, mild british hops and maltiness - pretty standard. A good example of a British beer, and nice enough, bit a little boring.

Bottle shared at beers of the world. Aroma is slight cinnamon nutmeg and gingerbread. Pours bronze and clear with a fizzy head. Taste is a little bland with notes of the spices and a caramel malt behind it. Very easy to drink but very unremarkable for the style. I like my Christmas beers to pop.