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Alaskan Winter Ale 3.24 372

Alaskan Winter Ale

Percentile
70
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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
3723.25/5.03.24/5.0Winter6.4%41.9English pint, Snifter
Commercial Description:
Style: English Olde Ale. Traditionally malty with the warming sensation of alcohol, Olde Ales are brewed in the fall as winter warmers.

Flavor Profile: Brewed in the style of an English Olde Ale, this ale balances the sweet heady aroma of spruce tips with the clean crisp finish of noble hops. Its malty richness is complemented by the warming sensation of alcohol.

History: From the seafaring adventurers of the 1700s to the homebrewers of today, adding spruce tips to beer has a rich history in Southeast Alaska. The tender new growth of Sitka spruce tips lends a delicious, yet subtly sweet floral aroma to tea, jelly and now Alaskan Winter Ale.

Ingredients: Water, malt, hops and yeast with no adjuncts, no preservatives and no pasteurization. Our glacier-fed water originates in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Ice Field. A complex blend of six malts including Pale, Wheat, Munich and caramelized malts. Prized Czechoslovakian Saaz hops and Sitka spruce tips.
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beerczar69 (39), Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/510/20
Oct 10, 2006  
Qiute a nice tasting beer.Pours clear and the spruce tip adds a nice taste.The best winter ale i have had.Nice after taste and worth a try.


 madcow75 (425), Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/513/20
Oct 10, 2006  
Bottle. Pours copper with a thin white head that eventually disappears. Sweet caramel aroma with some spice in the background. Mostly malty taste, caramel, toffee and some spice(pine,spruce). Medium body. Easy to drink.


 smcd (366), USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 7, 2006  
(10/2006. 12oz Bottle.) Sweet, spicy aromas with, of course, a note of light spruciness there in the background. Pours clear. Light amber. Medium white head that disappears to a thin film relatively quickly. Rich, sweet tastes nicely balanced by the spruce tips with a slightly spicy, candi note. Finishes slightly bitter. Medium-full bodied and lightly carbonated.


 bitbucket (2036), Kirkland, Washington, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Oct 4, 2006  
Bottled. Pours a clear light amber with a fading white head. The aroma is lightly spicy with pine (or apparently spruce) and toffee behind it. Medium to light body with a slightly watery texture and medium carbonation. The taste is growing on me as this beer warms up. The same spruce/spice toffee notes appear along with a bit of wood, leading to spruced bitter finish. But a Barley Wine with 6.4% alcohol? I grant you that it’s made with barley, but who are we kidding here? Why not just claim it’s an English Strong like the rest of winter warmers?


 JohnnyJ (1353), Carlsbad, California, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 17, 2006  
Aroma of sweet malt and spruce tips. Clear amber color with an almost non-existent off-white head. Very sweet flavor of malt, spruce tips, and a little hops. It does taste wintery because of the spruce tips. To me it doesnt seem at all like a barley wine, definitely more like a spice beer. It is easy to drink and really not that bad tasting.


BaRrOoMhErO1985 (3), Palm Desert, California, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Alaskan Winter Ale does not count
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/59/105/517/20
Jun 26, 2006  
I really liked this beer i have only drank it straight out of the bottle but the flavor is great is brewed with spruce tips one of my favorites


 Hoss (602), Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/511/20
Jun 14, 2006  
Fruity and malty and with a significant alcohol bite. I would drink this again but it will not be a favorite


 GreatLibations (1454), Last Supper, Arizona, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/515/20
May 11, 2006  
This is the 2005 brew and I’m drinking it in the middle of May 2006, and it’s still going. Pours amber copper with medium sized creamy froth. Medium nectar weight with residual effers. Aroma is fruit and malt with a trace of biscuits. Smells like strawberries. Flavors are fruity with a malt backbone and a pinch of bitter on the finish. This is real easy to drink. I can taste strawberries, raspberries, cherries, pine sap, malt, and slight bread. The finish really hangs in there with the pine sap.



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