Summit Winter Ale

This varies quite a bit year to year so rating may be misleading. I didn’t particularly like it last year. This year’s quite solid though. Deep ruby with thin white head. Lots of malt and toffee flavor with just the right touch of hops in the finish. On tap at Kieran’s--I would have had a few more if we hadn’t had to move on!

Draught at Ginger Man. Poured a bronze, brown colour with a medium off-white head and foamy lacing. Not a big aroma but some malt and coffee. Enjoyable sweet flavour that gives way to some bitterness in the finish. Good brew.

Poured a ruby brown mahogany colour with a thick tan head. Aroma was dark roast malt, light vanilla and coffee, some woody hop. Flavour is dark toffee sweetness. light coffee and some vanilla again with a burnt woody bitterness in the finish. A bit rough around the edges but still not too shabby.

Bottle. Deep brownish red color, thin head with a few carbonation bubbles. Flavor is dark roasted malts, some coffee. Similar to a porter, but without the sweetness. Light bodied. Finishes on a lingering bitter note. Would like to see a bit more ABV, but this is still a decent winter warmer.

Pours a light see-thru dark brown with larger carbonation bubbles. Light roast aroma. Nice flavor, good amount of roast and light creamy chocolate, well balanced and easy drinking. Medium/light body with lively carbonation but still has a nice creamy mouthful.

7/19/08: Bottle.
Red brown body with a fluffy, tan colored head. Lacing. Floral aroma. Flavor of malt with hints of spice (nutmeg, cinnamon). Finish is bitter.

This beer pours a deep dark brown colour with a small tan head. It is accompanied by very sweet aromas: dark chocolate, tobacco, smoke and coffee. Taste of roasted malts. dark coffee and cinammon. fairly strong tasting, but above all a winter warmer indeed.

Pours dark, looks to be dark brown but is a dark ruby with dark brown and black at the sides of the glass when held up to a light, has a small creamy off-white head that diminishes, displayed some creamy bubbled lacing on the glass, aroma of roasted and toasted malt, some chocolate and malt sweetness, faint nut fragrance, resembles a brown ale, taste of roasted malt, brown sugar sweetness and some chocolate, resembles a brown ale in flavor to with chocolate and more sweetness added, not much in hops and the finish has minimal bitterness with malt flavor and sweetness following, this is very easy to drink, has a medium or less mouth feel, I would want a little more weight on the palate with a Winter Warmer but this is a light version of a Winter Warmer, not a bad drink at all.