Shipyard Longfellow Winter Ale

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Portland, Maine USA

(650 ml bottle) Sweet a bit nity scent, some green apples acetaldehyd. Roasted taste, chocolate. Roasted coffee aftertaste. Low bitterness. Dry a bit salty mouthfeel and aftertaste.

Pours dark brown. Roasted and alcoholish aroma with some liquorice. Some plums and hints of coffee. Some mentol in flavour, coffee bitterness. Both dry and sweet. Dark chocolate. A bit buttery mouthfeel. Medium body and afterbitterness.

Bottle: Dark brown almost black colour, with a nice creamy head. Aroma ogf dark chcolate, coffee and abit citric in the end. Flavor is almost the same, but is this a winter warmer?, it reminds me moore than a Porter. Medium body, medium finish. But have not that big body and powerfuly mouth feeling that a great Winter warmer has, that´s my uppinion.

Bottled. Mahogany colour, rich but brief head. Complex aroma of madeira, hay, cinnamon, chcolate and caramel. Medium bodied with clean crystal malt character. Notes of pears and butterscotch. Resiny finish with lingering bitterness. Very interesting flavourwise, but with too clean mouthfeel to work as a winter warmer.

Poured into Chimay glass. Aroma: fresh, sourish hops, rich malt, liqueur, pears and a faint scent of plums. Fudge, earth. Appearance: very dark, reddish brown, more beautiful than most. Beige head that soundily fizzes and disappears. Flavor: Bittersweet, bready, slightly smoky, malty, very yummy... relatively dry aftertaste. Yeasty notes, heavily roasted. VERY tasteful, the aftertaste is actually better than the initial flavor; salty, mineral. Palate: a bit fizzy, sticky and sort of slippery. Not what I expected.

Bottled. Oh, the first american bomber (22oz) bottle who made it to our dear Systembolaget. I just wish it would come from Stone or Avery or someting.. But here it is. It pours out in a very dark brown colour with ruby hints, topped with a firm tan-coloured head. A layer of butterscotch in the aroma over dark chocolate and subtle spicy hops. Once again the flavour is a tad to buttery for my tastes (as other brews from Shipyard) but the flavours behind the curtain is pretty delicate of black chocolate, nuts and dryish spicy hops. Bitter finish of dark chocolate, nut-shells and grass with a sweet buttery undertone. The best beer from Shipyard so far.

12 oz. bottle, Best By: 6/06, purchased as part of the Captain’s Choice sampler 12-pack...Pours a solid dark-fudge with a spare, off-white, wispy head. Spare lacing...Smells of heavy burnt molasses malts and piney hops. Reminds me of a chocolate liqueur...Full bodied, thick textured, and soft carbonation with a barely there bitter finish...A flicker of sweetness quickly morphs into mildly bitter chocolate goodness. Aroma is much stronger than how it goes down though, alcohol content is very well masked...Overall, a very easy to drink winter brew that borders on more of a porter than Scottish ale. A great introduction to strong ales at Christmas time!

Copper brown with ruby highlights and a one finger light tan head. Butter aroma with fruit and roasted malt. Sweet buttery flavor with fruit and malts upfront. Dry roasted burnt malt, finishes with notes of chocolate and brown sugar.