Siletz Winter Warmer

Brewed by Siletz Brewing and Public House
Style: Amber Ale
Siletz, Oregon USA

Bottle: Deep caramel, somewhat dirty, moderate off-white head, fizzy, dies pretty quick, spotty lacing.   Malt oriented nose, perhaps a slight bit of pine?   Flat tasting malts on the tongue.   Slight hop presense, very slight.   Soft sweetness, some of the aformentioned pine.   Doesn’t seem very big at all, somewhat flat, and a bit stale.   Needs to be more lively.   Needs to be spiced up.   Needs a bit more of a hop bite.   Tiz okay, but seems to me to be lacking as compared to other years.   Body and mouthfeel are... flat.   Will likely rerate down the road.   Next years batch perhaps?

(22oz bottle) Murky mud-brown body with small but creamy beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some roast, raisin, clove/nutmeg, pine/grapefruit, light wood. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, date, some sourness, finishing pine/grapefruit. Medium body, undercarbonated.

Rich malt and candy aroma. Underlying hints of earth. Affects my senses. Very hazy, near opaque, apricot color (using a halogen lamp). Brown? under regular light. No head in the snifter. This is sweetish dark fruit, with that slightly sour underlying component of so many Siletz ales. Quickly overcome with something like toffee molasses. This one was aged for a year or so, and the hop is not up to the malt. One to sip rather than quaff.

This is one of the most bizarre beers I have ever tried. What a trainwreck of flavor this one is. Sheet candied fruitcake flavors, a bit waxy, biscuity maltiness, nicely hoppy, sprucey and piney.

Bottle from Steve and served in my LaChouffe tulip:

Poured at first with a sunset orange hue and a fading fizzy head with some lace, the second pour was murky and more like a rust color. The aroma has a pink grapefruit, mango, candied cherry, woody and earthy yeast, a light biscuity malt, and some pepper. The taste was not equal to the nose as I found a unwelcomed tartness and cardboard character on top of the juicy hops and malty undertone. Ruined what I hoped for would have been a great tasting experiance. Maybe it was the bottle, lets hope so.

22oz bottle. Cloudy dark rusty tea colored body witha very small head. Semi-sweet grassy hop cones, rich marachino cherries and a strong whiff of cedar wood round out the nose on this brew. Moderately thick, and fizzy as well. Some bubble-gun sugars and more cherries and cedar flavors. Palate is significantly dry and rough, and the finish is sour grapefruit and cedar wood. The yeast has a bit of a funk, something I didn’t like in their other beers, especially their imperial porter, but in this beer it’s more interesting and blends better with the barley wine-like flavors.

(Bottle) Pours a hazy amber-brown with a moderate off-white head. Aroma of malt, dark fruits, dirty diapers, and sour citrus. Flavor of citrus, mixed dried fruit, and funky sourness.

Bottle. Pours a deep mahogany color and just lightly opaque. Very modest whitish head forms and fades out to a slight broken layer over the center and a fair ring around the edge. Minimal lacing. Aroma is richly malty with a very healthy dose of "C" hop citrus nose. Full bodied, moderately viscous. Flavors of rich malt and a citric/piney hop presence blend nicely with a lingering hop presence at the finish. Quite well done.