Belgian Freeze Ale
River Horse Brewing Company in Ewing, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Winter|
Score
6.43
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Dark pour with malty bread and cereal aroma. Taste is smooth caramel and toasted barley. Rated 8/23/04
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a deep brown color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of candi sugar with some dominating Belgian style malt. Taste is also a nice enough mix between some candi sugar and nice Belgian malt with some fruity ester and a lightly spicy yeast. Body is not as full as I would have liked it with some good carbonation and no presence of alcohol. Not bad but makes me want to learn more from this brewery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle from Once Upon a Vine - South on 03/29/2009. Somewhat cloudy dark amber body with ruby highlights and a small off-white head. Dry grainy spice aroma, somewhat harsh and a bit vegetal. Dry grainy flavor, fairly vegetal, with some burnt malt and a bit of dry bitter in the finish. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Slightly dark brown color. Small head. Strong aroma, with some belgian ale aroma. Strong, but a very nice finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, poured into small pilsner glass. No head. Light brown/Dark Ruby color. Smell is strong, a mix of some spice and a Belgian aroma. Taste is confusing as well, mix of Belgian beer with spice or herb beer. Weak palate for such a beer. As it warms becomes more malty and a little sour. Overall, I like the idea of Belgian mixed with spice/herb but the exacution doesnt work out.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Medium red color with very minimal head - aroma of artificial sweetener, cherry syrup and brown sugar - thin bodied and flavored for the style - medium swet and roasty, a background sourness comes late - not terrible, but needs serious work.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
12oz bottle-pours a tan head with dark brown color. Aroma is sweet, malt, dark cherry. Taste is malt, oak barrel taste, sweet, mild carbonation. Medium bodied. Nothing that stands out as bad, just lacking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
This beer came to me in a beer club. I like the name, but then again I am partial to Belgian style beers. +++ It was sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle and poured a very dark brown color. Holding it to the light only the faintest of ruby color shone through. There was no head at all. The aroma was sweet, fruity and had an almost brown sugar element to it. Hints of coffee and molasses drifted to the nose as well. The flavor was strong with dark malt, coffee and brown sugar. This winter ale really ended up tasting more like a mild coffee porter more than anything else. Yet it did have the sweetness of a Belgian ale. Quite interesting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
This deep garnet colored beer pours out and hardly raises a head. What there is laces the glass and then quickly disappears. The aroma is citrusy with bready notes. The flavor is lightly sweet, and the finish is papery dry, but not long lasting. Not complex or fruity enough to be a top notch Belgian, sort of comes off as a fruity Bock. Drinkable but largely unremarkable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Nice bronze, copper colour with a thin tan head. Aroma of caramel, roasted malt, maple syrup and a slight amount of nuts. Medium to Full-bodied; Nutty flavour with some extra caramel sweetness. Aftertaste shows a lot of nuttiness with some residual sweetness. Aftertaste lasts long as it is basically nuttiness and some odd flavours. Overall, a decent 'stronger' brown ale, not much complexities in the taste...but a decent offering from the otherwise mediocre brewery. I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Chevy Chase Wine & Liquor in Washington, D.C. and sampled it on 22-December-2003.