River Horse Belgian Freeze Winter Ale

Brewed by River Horse Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Lambertville, New Jersey USA

Pours brown with almost no head. Has a slight malty aroma with some fruitiness. The flavor is mild with a light maltiness.

12 oz Bottle: Pours with a MASSIVE head. It took just about the entire OT period of the KU-ISU bball game for me to pour this one. After the head finally went away, it was a lovelyl deep dark brown with reddish colors. If the head wasn’t so explosive, the appearence would be a 5. The aroma is nice. Some green apples, some smokey-roasted malts, plums, and sweetness. The flavor was smoked/roasted malts strongly preveleant.

Reddish brown with a small head and average at best lacing. Aroma is like a poor man’s Rochefort 10. It’s got that plummy spiced note in the aroma, just not nearly as much, nor was there much more than some basic malts. Flavor is like a very poor man’s Rochefort 10. Very watery, light notes related to that beer with some light caramel sweetness and some fruityness. Alcohol is hidden well though. Overall I was guessing this was gonna be a quad around 10th percentile, but close enough haha.

Bottle. Poured murky brown into trappist glass creating a minimal if no head. Aroma was malty, mostly brown sugar. First sip was mouth puckering sour--like bottled lemon juice or underripe raspberries. Sourness overwhelmed a generally caramel/toffee foundation. Slightly bitter burnt coffee finish. Had a slippery, juicy mouthfeel. Reminds me a bit of Lake Placid Ubu Ale. Not sure if this is how the beer was meant to taste, but I’m kind of sorry I bought the whole six-pack.

Dark brown color with a malty-sweet aroma. Taste is decent, but a warning - THIS BEER DOES NOT LAST LONG OR AGE WELL! I had this one soon after purchase and a again in the summer and the difference was drastic. I’m not a huge fan of River Horse precisely because they always seem to produce sub-par products. Sure this is drinkable, but it should be alot better.

has a sweet caramel malt aroma to it, dark brownish colour, fairly smooth a nice caramel aftertaste, body is a bit thin.

Pours a deep brown with thin off-white head. Mild malty aroma. Taste is malty and sweet, with molasses, brown sugar and a dose of hops. Good flavor, but a bit on the thin side.

Bottle from my SS. sour, funkiness combined with mildly sweet belgian malts. Strange combo. Doesnt work very well for me. I feel a drain pour coming on. I have more deserving beers in my fridge.