Anchor Our Special Ale (2002)

Formerly brewed at Anchor Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
San Francisco, California USA

Dark Brown With Red Tinge....Good Light Brown Head. Aroma is of Chritmas Spices...Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Other Potent Flavors...Some Berry Fruit.... Good Malt.. I Would Agree that it Tend Towards a Gingerbread Flavor...Wet...Perhaps a Bit More Spice/Unbalanced a bit...but Very Wonderful Winter Brew!

Deep cloudy amber brown with offwhite head. Molasses, spice, toffee and more on the nose. Medium to heavey mouthfell with light bitter dry finish. Almost like gingerbread, with molasses, malt, light hops, clean refreshing finish with lingering aromas. Wow, better than I expected!

great find Lumpy, thanks for the bottle. pours a a deep dark almost black with a fat tan head. nice spicy aroma of nutmeg and ginger. those flavors are also present in the taste. a sweet and sour to this that is interesting. slight hop presence with an enjoyabled malt and bitter finish.

Bottle. Ginger, malt, nutmeg, and cinammon. Tastes like a lighter version of 2003 OSA.

Had this one half a year ago. Bottled
Aroma is sweet and herbal. Flavor is light sweet, medical with alcoholic aftertaste. Very strange but interessting.

Looked great,deep brown with a barely visible head. Smelled of X-mas thru and thru. Too bad it tasted like a cross between a bad porter and a fucking X-mas wreath. Yuck.

THis is a very tasty brew that pours a deep brown, almost porterl-like, with a small, frothy slight off-white head. Aromas of ginger cinnimon and spice with flavors of the same.. Doesn’t seem as sweet or over spiced as the 2003 is.

Dark brown/black color. Aromas of fruit and spice. Taste is sweet, with malt, spice and fruit. Aftertaste has a little coffee and chocolate. Body is just right.