Redhook Winterhook

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: English Strong Ale
Woodinville, Washington USA

Pour amber brown with a tan head. Aroma is caramel, roasted nuts and candi sugar. Flavor is caramel malt with hints of chocolate, candi sugar, toffee and a slight bitter finish. Pretty good.

Location: From Total WIne in McLean

Aroma: Matly sweet aroma.
Appearance: Cloudy redish brown appearance.
Flavor: Light sweet taste with a little sour. Some malt and caramel.
Palate: Medium body, some carbonation.
Overall Impression: A decent winter beer.

This year’s Winterhook is better than last years. It has a better overall flavor, more pronounced hop aroma and more toasty malt goodness. This is a "must have" beer if you get to the brewery. May be the best beer in their lineup

A dark amber to brown pour with a medium tan head. It has a sweet malty aroma. The taste begins sweet with hints of tea and raisins, then end dry and bitter.

Pours a dark reddish brown color with a smaller canvas head. Notes of citrus, pine, brown sugar, malt syrup, and char. Not bad.

~Aroma of caramel malts, light raisin, and brown sugar ~Pours a blood garnet color with small creamy brown head ~Roasted caramel malt flavor with light dark fruit ie. raisin and chocolate. ~Medium light bodied with medium carbonation, dry. Strange malty lingering finish almost astringent like. ~Decent brew. Finish isn’t very enjoyable.

12 oz bottle. Very little aroma here--maybe some spices, caramel. Pours almost red with minimal head, mediocre lacing. Tastes nutty, caramelly (not a word? don’t care). A little watery. Bland winter beer.

Pours a very dark burgundy with a tan head. The head quickly diminishes but leaves attractive lacing. Caramel in the nose, some hints of spice. The spice does not come through very much in the nose. Somewhat spicey on the palate, some initial sweetness coming through, but overall, its rather unimpressive.