Powder Hound Winter Ale
Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula, Montana, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Winter|
Score
6.55
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Our Winter IPA is bold and assertive for those cold winter months. Powder Hound has just the right amount of warmth with a generous dose of hops.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. bottle. Pours a bright copper with a small off-white head and no lacing. The aroma is light caramel, apples, lemon, and cinnamon. The flavor is mildly bitter, and sweet. The palate is light to medium, crisp, and sticky. The aftertaste is long and bitter. Overall, this is a good, easy drinking and well made beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2011
at 15:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear amber color, medium tan head, nice lacing. Aroma of caramel and light spice. Taste is spiced butterscotch. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2011
at 10:41
8/10
Tried
on 28 Oct 2011
at 14:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Clear light copper coloured body with a honey golow and a nice, thick dense off-white head with a nice lace leftover. Aroma of strong, bright citrus and grapefruit hops, yeast, apricots, coriander seed, curacao, honey and some pungent malt - very nice indeed. Medium-bodied; Biting hop flavour at first with a good malt backbone, some light yeast flavours, a touch of bright sweetness and a little alcohol flavour near the end. Good yeast and honey flavours to finish it off and a little light hoppiness in the aftertaste. Overall, a good beer - not too strong and not too weak, but a good beer for the season and a variation from the typical, roasted malt beer during this time of the year - nice! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 16-January-2011 for US$2.59 sampled at home in Washington on 12-March-2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2011
at 22:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle from the state wine store
Appearance: Pours crystal clear light golden with a nice sized white foamy head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Slightly sweet caramel malts, grassy and spices
Taste: Malty, grassy with a smooth pine bitterness in the finish
A nice beer.
Appearance: Pours crystal clear light golden with a nice sized white foamy head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Slightly sweet caramel malts, grassy and spices
Taste: Malty, grassy with a smooth pine bitterness in the finish
A nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2011
at 20:46
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a copper with a small white head. Aroma is spice with some floral hops. Flavor is more of a dull grain with a bit of spice toward the end. Nothing mind blowing but decent.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2010
at 13:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
on tap-pours a light tan head that laces and copper color. Aroma is medium malt-roasty/molasses. Taste is medium malt-roasty/caramel, secondary earthy . 110226-citrusy too
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Mar 2010
at 19:18
5.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz bottle. Faint aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg. Pours brownish red with a thick head and nice lacing. Tastes a little sour. Carbonation is a little low; thin. Fairly standard, boring winter warmer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2009
at 16:59
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle. Thick amber brown color. Patchy,soapy head. Ambery sweet caramel aroma, screams old to me. The taste seems the same, some deep faded amber malt and cinnamon sweetness. Poor job of covering the alcohol. Scotch ale with some unpleasant pungent sourness...in a bad way. I hope this is just my punishment for drinking a Winter beer in later April.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2009
at 17:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Poured red brown with lasting white head. Some lacing. Aroma of spice, citrus, honey. Flavour is malt, with spice, honey and something I can’t recognise. Honey/malt finish. Again worth drinking if you come across it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2009
at 20:56