Blue Point Winter Ale

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: Amber Ale
Patchogue, New York USA

Pours a coppery orange with a decent sized head. Aroma is malty with a touch of hoppiness. taste is an OKish blend of malts, some choc/caramel, and a bit of hops. One of the better blue point’s I have had.

Bright orange copper color with a modest somewhat diminishing ecru head. Aromas of fresh dough, a quick hint of citrus, mild caramel and a touch of apricot. A rose by any other name, just as an amber. Light caramel and toasted malt flavors in the front. Some zest, earth, herbal and woody bitterness in the middle that follows through into the finish and linger.

I loved this beer. It had a beautiful deep amber body and a nice hoppy flavor.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear dark amber with a moderate off-white head that lasted beyond mid-glass. Pleasant aroma of caramel malt. The flavor is rich with caramel malt and just enough hops at the finish to keep this from being too sticky. A bit on the sweet side. I pounded down this glass pretty quickly and enjoyed it. A good session beer.

Brightly dark ruby brown color that is brilliantly bold to view through. Capping is smallish and creamy tight of a light sandy tan hue. Keeps a firm skim present the whole consumption period. Packed in spotty lacing is stitched across the glass with good sticking power. Aroma is soft of cocoa powdered fluff with a bit of whole grain breadyness thats a titch on the sweetened doughy side. Taste is firm and round of some soft brown bread dough sweetness, some cocoa hints, perhaps a drip of maple. Semi soft and drying hoppy finish that’s fresh and green with a hint of grass and grain. Feel is about medium with fairly solid tone and firm carbonation that keeps a nice tight tang and smallish bite of action adding to the overall flavors. A nice drinking Winter ale (Red/Brown ale) thats soft, firm, and just tasty enough.

On tap at HDG. Reddish brow with a sturdy tan head. Flavor is nutty and a tad sweet on the malty side. A pretty standard version of the style but I prefer it a bit hoppier.

this is an unpretentious winter beer as it is basically an interesting amber with a quality hop and malt character. first a crystally hop and modestly pine taste introduces itself. this is followed by an equally modest and mildly sweet malt character that has a spicy peppery/licorice quality that in keeping with its nature is modest. altogeather i like the result and find it refreshing, yet intricately complex enough for satisfaction.i like that too much attention was not placed in overspicing or sweetening. and that -cheap beer - carbonation -something like a sodapop - is somewhat endearing.

12 oz bottle, via goldtwins. Pours a dark copper body with a one finger plus foamy beige head. Moderate carbonation and some light lacing. Nose is toasted and slightly sweet crystal malt with just a light accent of hops. Maybe a touch of oxidation. Slightly sweet and slightly grainy malty flavor with a moderate bitterness coming on in the finish. Seems a little dull, I suppose that this is last winter’s ale? Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a slightly husky feel and active fizzy prickly carbonation. Overall, not the best realy, but maybe it could be because of age. It just seemed a little muted. Quite an unusual choice of style for a Winter Ale though.