Redhook Winterhook

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

Bottle. Pours a very bubbly, slightly hazy orange-amber with an average size lasting off-white head -- lookin’ good. Aroma of lightly toasted malt, fruit and a decent amount of hops. Flavour of toasted malt, fruit, hops along with some nuts and light spices -- it could use a bit more flavour. Mild bitter finish. Average bodied. Better then I expected it to be, not bad at all actually.

Smells pleasant and sweet, mild roasted malt scent. Pours a clear copper color with a big white head. Taste is mild but tasty malts with nice light bitter/sweet hops flavor. Nice, but quite so dark/malty as I was expecting from a winter ale.

Draft at Crocodile Lounge. Amber brown pour with minimal head. Aroma of english pale malt, and very similar to other big brewer winter ales. The flavor is the same.

Light tan colour .. some decant head but dies down quite a bit .. some honey notes but muddled ... some flavours but too befuddling to pull out anything real, if that makes any sense.. an average beer but for an english strong winter beer, thin and watery but is easy drinking... McLovin ..

12oz brown bottle served in a shaker pint. Pours a clear gold/amber with a sparse white head. Some malt in the aroma with a little of the trademark Redhook diacetyl. Pretty thin in the body. Crisp hop bitterness. A little butteryness and bready malt. Decent hop finish. Not that exciting, more of a bland amber than a true hearty winter beer.

Aroma of malts and a little spice. Dark amber in color. Taste of bland maltyness and not much hops. Rather thin

Wasnt expecting much from this, but it proved to be a pretty solid winter option at a tasty price. Pretty sweet and malty, nice smoothness factor. When it comes to seasonals its generally one sixer and thats it, but I honestly may grab this one up again.

Clear reddish. No aroma. Bitterish taste but even that is a stretch. Very boring and bland.