 hapjydeuce (613), Carlsbad, USA
Jul 17, 2007 Updated: May 30, 2008
Alesmith totally delivers the goods every Holiday Season with this bad boy. It ultra-loaded with sweet warming malty goodness. Huge vanilla covered head that cascades with the carbonation, making a picture-perfect appearance for this style. Pretty well hopped, with notes of tree sap and pine resin in the aroma. Typical flavor for a warming beer crafted for cold winter nights. Caramel, pepper and spice, with cinnamon and nutmeg. I’d take the summer IPA, but this is very impressive.
nbutler11 (273), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Nov 20, 2008 Growler from the brewery. Pours a sweet caramel color with a firm white head of foam. Nearly overwrought with bushels of apples (cores and all) to my taste. Very aggressive malt profile and alcohol content. A few pints of this nearly wrecked me.
Slipstream (421), USA
Nov 20, 2008 Thanks again to Adrian for sharing a bottle of this. Amazing aroma. Flavor is strong, herbal, and hoppy. The bottle we had might have been a little off, so I would like to rate it again someday - and it still gets 3.9 points!
dogfish120love (107), west hartford, Connecticut, USA
Nov 18, 2008 Winter edition.
Appearance: redish deep amber rust in coloration, much darker than the summer edition.Smells of pine, grapefruit, sweet malt, and alcohol. The Malt aroma makes it much different in smell than the summer version.
Taste: Sweet Malt, grapefruit, pine and alcohol. The alcohol is much more present in this edition compared to the summer one. Much richer and more malty as well.Palate: very well balanced, not over hopped leaving my enamal in tact.
tomthompson89 (1184), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nov 18, 2008 Wow is all i can say about this beer!! so well done amber color, tan foam. Nose is big grapefruit. Flavor is similar with a great spicy malty flavor well done
Beardface (238), Eugene, Oregon, USA
Oct 25, 2008 Bomber from Market of Choice. Insanely well balanced with a huge hop flavor that threatens to run amuck but is saved by just the perfect amount of maltiness. A bit of booze and pine in the finish with some citrus floating around as well. Alesmith is just so damn great, I wish we could get all their beers up here.
|
