Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome Ale

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: English Strong Ale
Tadcaster, England

Cellar Temperature, excellent flavours developing as it warms to room temperature. Nicely balanced between sweet caramel and vanilla maltiness and moderately bitter (but definitely present) hops. Subtle and refined compared to some other winter ales, but flavourful - as an English Ale should be. A nice beer.

Warm amber with a nice head. The aroma has notes of malt and fruit and the flavour has nice, smooth notes of caramel and fruit. As it gets warmer subtle and nice notes surfaces and makes this beer a true Samuel Smith.

Pours copper/amber and clear, as if seriously filtered. For a winter welcom it seems very light and faint.

An enjoyable festive beer well-suited to its name, but still a bit lighter for a winter special. It’s smooth and a little bitter with a soft carbonation and an excellent, frothy head. (from bottle)

Re-rate thank to Shintriad. Vintage 2005. No metallic taste, fruity and pungeant. Funky. Much better. Caramel and malts in smell. Goldeny red in colour. Looks and smells quite nice. The head is a little weak. Sweet in flavour, a little metallic, the caramel taste seeps through.

The top of the bottle says 2006 2007. The aroma is of a sweet dough. The head looks creamy and is off white in color. The head is mostly diminishing with good lacing. The body is clear and amber in color. The initial flavor is a little sweet with a little bitter hitting the back of the tongue. The finish is non-dememo and short. The body is light and the texture is watery and the carbonation is soft. the finish is a little lcoholic.

2006 bottle gifted from LCBO in Toronto. Pours a clear brown with little carbonation. Gentle spicy aroma, and a nice spicy taste, although the taste fades a tad too quickly.

Pours a deep gold into an English pint. Significant, fluffy off-white head leaves sink holes as it recedes. Crisp, a little sour, and slightly metallic.