Ithaca Winterizer

Brewed by Ithaca Beer Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Ithaca, New York USA

Draught at Brazen Head. Dark brown with an aroma dominated by dried banana chips. Some bruised, overripe apples in the aroma as well, along with some general cookie/cake spices. Flavor a bit like a spiced apple/berry cider drink except with added dark malty notes of brown sugar, molasses and mild chocolate. Has kind of a fruit-come-malt-come-spice order to the flavors. Some of the spice character translates now and then to an herbal medicinal bitterness, but that’s nitpicking. Hooray to this one for not tasting like Chinese dumpling sauce.

Sampled from growler courtesy of TomDecapolis. Poured a deeper ruby red color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of roast, christmas spices, spruce trees, and banana chips. Tastes of spices, roast, soem dark fruits, bananas, and chocolate.

Thanks to TomDecapolis for sharing this growler... Appears a deep crimson with a dark chestnut surrounding when held up to the light. A light tan head fades into a small cap and collar. Spotty streaks of lacing is left around the glass. Smell is of plums, black cherries, bananas, cocoa, and spices. Taste is of the aromas with raisins, nutmeg, and cinnamon pulling through. This is similar to a dunkelweizen with light spices. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, smooth, estery, lightly spiced, and semi-dry on the finish.

Poured a lightly hazy brown color with a small, tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of banana, roasted malts, light chocolate, clove, and various other spices. Taste of chocolate, nuts, light caramel malts, banana, light clove, and lighter spices in the taste.

Pour a deep brown with lots of ruby red highlights and a medium creamy/bubbly off white head. Aroma of nuts, banana, a mix of holiday spices, some toasted malts, tropical fruits and a touch of roast. Flavor of light nuts, ripe banana, a touch of chocolate, toasted malt, toast a mix of holiday spices and very dry.

Draft. pours dark with lots of nuttiness and some chox & caramel malts. Pretty drinkable. for waht it was and hid the alcohol content well.

Draft at brewery. Reddish brown body, small off-white head, spicy nose. Malty, spicy, fruity with banana esters, mild bitterness.

A clear reddish brown ale with a thin light moka head. In aroma, similar to a Belgian Palm or an old english ale, with caramel malt and vinous notes. In mouth, a pleasantly fruity malt taste, good hopping, not floral but more European, vanilla and wood notes. Medium bodied.