Rush River Winter Warmer

Brewed by Rush River Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
River Falls, Wisconsin USA

On tap @ The Old Fashioned - Pours deep brown with a small white head. Aroma is light spices--nutmeg and cloves--along with some sweet malt. Decent taste, but the spice is a little much, and it’s not even dialed up. I think I just don’t like this flavor profile. There’s a bit of caramel, along with some sour malt on the finish. A bit of an alcohol burn, too. It’s smooth and a bit syrupy, and just not my cup of tea.

12 oz. bottle, the fourth from a six-pack, consumed on 12-18-09. Malty, fruity, sweet aroma has a hint of dryness but mostly features toffee, caramel, toast, and cookie scents. Pours a cloudy, effervescent, deep copper. Some suspended particulate. Large amount of beige head. Produces good lacing. The taste is dryer than the aroma was indicating. There’s a dirt-like finish of which I’m not a big fan. Bready, fruitcake taste. The flavors are not very powerful or memorable. Long, dry aftertaste that, like the finish, is not entirely pleasant. Medium body. Some liveliness. Total lack of memorableness in the palate except for the somewhat unappealing aftertaste. Rush River Winter Warmer is not bad, but it doesn’t do much for me. I did enjoy subsequent bottles more than I did the first that I tried (but did not rate), so perhaps it takes some getting used to.

Pours a deep amber color with a thin but creamy slowly disappating head. Loose particles floating throughout. Belgian like aroma of caramel and spices. Inviting. Some light peat notes in the flavor. Quite unique and pretty well made. Flavor stays with you for quite a while.

Bottle, pours almost a dark tea color with a decent and clingy head. The aroma is slightly spicy and quite carmel and toffee like. The flavor is sweet, caramel, some faint spice, and some faint hops to keep it from a cloy. The palate is medium bodied and lively. Overall, not bad.

Perhaps drinking a winter warmer in the summer will heat things up around here, too darn cold for late July… Hazy orange with a medium off white head. Aroma of toffee, fruit , caramel, alcohol and bread. Taste is overly sweet containing lots of caramel and toffee and mild spice. Overly malted to the point of being unbalanced, this thing could use a shot of hops.

Courtesy of northernbrews

Bottle: The aroma consists of caramel, toffee, faint fruit, and spice. It pours a transparent dark brown with a small off-white head. The flavor starts with caramel up front with some raisin in the middle. The finish has some light spiciness and floral hops. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with tytoanderso (thanks!). Poured a deeper orangish/copper color with a larger sized off white head. Aromas of roastiness, caramel, toffee, and just all around maltiness. Tastes of caramel, a touch of chocolate, toffee, and toasty. Some dark fruitiness in the tastes too.

Bottle from my buddy Ian. Pours a dark brownish red with an off white head. Big malty aroma with hints of cinnamon and holiday spice. Taste is smooth and malty with a touch of hop bitterness. Nice session style winter beer.