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McKenzie Biere d’Hiver


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85
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A Bière de Garde brewed by
McKenzie Brew House

Glen Mills, Pennsylvania USA

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113.63/5.03.51/5.0Winter7.7%83.2Snifter P  Stats

Commercial Description:
A winter ale brewed in the French farmhouse style with three grains, honey, candi sugar and spices. Gently hopped and pleasantly malty.

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 argo0 (6230), Washington DC, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20

May 9, 2008  
(750ml bottle, thanks kmweaver) Cloudy amber body topped by medium body that mostly dissipates. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some honey, light hay. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, pepper, some honey. Fairly dry finish. Medium-full body, some stickiness, effervescence.

 ryan (1707), Beltsville, Maryland, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/514/20
May 9, 2008  
Courtesy of kmweaver. Cloudy amber body with a large off-white head. The nose is dough, caramel, cookie dough, golden fruits and herbs. The flavor is estery with bananas, golden raisins, herbs, honey and bread. Medium/full body is round with moderate carbonation.


 kmweaver (2125), Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
May 9, 2008  
750mL bottle, courtesy of hopdog, I believe. Thanks, Steve! Pours a hazy, orange-amber color; thin off-white head with mixed-bubbled lacing. Pleasant amounts of toasty malts, fruitiness, honey, and sugar in the aroma; very soft spicing. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: honey, sugar, pleasant chewy maltiness, and light spicing; bready malts and slight residual sugar; a bit muddled, but pretty tasty with a solid honey note. Medium finish: breadiness, honey, and toasty malts.


 DocLock (4170), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Feb 27, 2008  
Corked bottle from Chadds Ford. Poured ruddy off-brown color with fizzy off-white head. The aroma was spicy florals, some earthy peaty notes, and some figgy fruit and malt. The flavor was spicy, floral, candi sugary, coming off like their dark saison in flavor and palate, but the flavors didn’t seem to meld here very well. Also, there was at least 3 inches of yeast and sediment in the bottom of this bottle, which prevented me from drinking ther last dregs, even with careful decantation. A mild disappointment.


 michael-pollack (1484), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Feb 7, 2008  
Draught @ Malvern Brewpub: Sweet aroma. Smells of honey, candi sugar, alcohol, and spices. Poured amber in color with a tiny off-white head. Hazy. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of malts, spices, grains, alcohol, sourdough, and pretzel. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Spicy, salty finish. Alcohol was warming, despited being only 7.7%ABV.



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