Dogwood Winter Ale 2002

Formerly brewed at Dogwood Brewing Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Atlanta, Georgia USA

very hazy light copper color with a thin, but lasting, white head. aroma is very strong of banana and bubblegum, also a hint of sourness. flavor is banana mainly with just a slight hint of alcohol in the finish...not sure what the ABV of this one is though. very tasty...thanks aracauna!

Smelled like a wit...the wheat really came out in the taste too...like a "hard" hefe this beer was, lots of clove and spice. Not bad, it also had a spicy, peppery zip in the finish.

Cider like in color with no head. Aroma reminds me of a cinnamon spiced apple sauce that I make every now and again. Light touches of vanilla, and bread dough. Flavor finishes out on this refreshing spritz of bitterness. Good stuff, almost bland though.

Bottle- I personally don’t like this beer very much at all. I guess that my beer palate has not reached this level of sophistication yet.

Cloudy in that wheaty way; head was medium and dense; nose was tart and yeasty. Yeasty and wheaty to start. Slightly sweet. Slightly tart. Good dark bite in the middle. Very round in body.

The color on the pour is that of butterscotch candy, the head cyclopean in size, with a whipped cream texture. Color Very light tan with Humongus sticky sheets of lace that adhere to the glass. Aroma of malt, with light floral and sweet ripe orange tones also present in this quite sniffable beer. Sweet at the front, the top thick and chewy, the finish is pleasingly hopped, modestly carbonated, dry aftertaste. Dogwood and Sweetwater make some top notch beers, and it’s well worth the time and effort to acquire some. I got mine courtesy of Aracauna, so this old saying goes to him for being so gracious. “I hope you never see the bottom of and empty glass”.

Very cloudy brew. Very little head retention. SLight fruitiness throughout. Leaves me with the aftertaste of just having finished a bag of Bog League Chew. I would classify this as more of a Trippel than anything.

This is a weird one. It calls itself a weizenbock but it’s a dark cloudy golden. I was expecting something like Aventinus, but it’s not. A little research on styles says this is acceptable, however. The aroma has the estery bubble gum and cloves you’d expect from the weizen bock and the more prominent heavy malt, but also contains a distinct belgian yeast spiciness that really will give you trouble if you’re thinking German Weizenbock. A little clearing of the mind and you realize this is a pretty good attempt at a Belgian strong ale in the vein of Orval, but I wonder if this really belongs in the weizenbock style like the brewers claim.