Vinos Holidaze

Brewed by Vinos Brewpub
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Little Rock, Arkansas USA

Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 26/09/2009 Big spice aroma. Copper mid brown coloured with a spicy clove flavour. A little bitterness in a crisp malt finish.

Sampled from a growler at the Milwaukee YEHa!05 courtesy of DenverLogan: Pours a transparent dark copper with a thin lightly-lacing off-white head. Earthy musty spice aroma reminds me of Anchor Our Special Ale, but with a little less spice. Body starts with a thin lightly sweet ginger spice and earthy malt flavor with a touch of spruce. Finishes thin and dry. A decent spiced winter beer that hides its abv well.

The body is dark brown and the modest head vanishes rapidly. Under a heap of spicing there’s a dark caramel base in the aroma. The spices - cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pine - dominate the flavor but a drying bitterness emerges in the finish. Like eating a Christmas cookie baked with hops.

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Enjoyed at the Tosa YeHA 2005, growler provided by Logan, thanks:

Chestnut hued with a minimal head and little lace. The body is a bit thin but makes it more drinakable. Ginger, clove, nutmeg, pepper, carmel, smoked malts appear on the nose. The taste was similar with a nicely spiced and mild sweet mainframe with some additional bitterness and chalky finish. Not too bad and much better than my other beer from this brewery. A nice light XMAS beer, surprising.

GABF 2008. Listed on the card as a brown ale, but with one sip it becomes apparent that this is more of a holiday-spice beer. Chocolate, cinnamon, mace, with a subtle raisin fruit note in the finish. Not what I expected, but a pleasant surprise in the end.

DenverLogan brought this. It pours to a smokey chocolatey plaintains. Spices like nutmeg and cinnamon. Almost has an eggnog like quality. Very unique and quite good. The beer is a weak looking brown color. No head. Tastes like what I suspect a Christmas wreath would taste.

Milwaukee YEHa!05, brought by DenverLogan. Flat, dark brown body. Aroma of ginger, nutmeg, light notes of anise, and other spices, a bit sweet. Ginger, nutmeg, and anise also dominate the flavor profile. The body was flat, lifeless, and rather unappealing. There was a muted hollow quality to the flavor profile, too. This didn’t cut it for me.

smells of lots of spice, nutmeg cinnamon allspice ginger and some light sweet smoked malts. Pours a dark mahogony w/ not real head. Lightly lively palate some carb a good coat. Flavor is the smoked malt and ginger hints of nutmeg and cinnamon as well. Pretty good. Sampled from a growler.