Sleigh'r Winter Ale

Draft - Caramel and light grains. Deep maroon with a decent a beige head. Bitter, caramel and a sweet bitter finish. Sweet and bitter and malty. Light esters, not sure what this supposed to taste like, but it’s OK.

12oz bottle pours a clear copper amber with some thin, creamy, lacing white head. Nose has mild spice, malty, mild yeast, mild booze, some dried fruits. Flavor is the same, dried fruit, cherry, raisin, mild booze, some malt, a little spice, clove. Full bodied, sticky finish.

Keg at the taproom in Eugene, 10/11/14. Chestnut brown with a decent tan swirl and edgeing. Nose is biscuit, nutty, toffee. Taste comprises caramel, toffee, biscuit, earthy notes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok alt if a little ramped up US ABV take for the style! Doesn’t match up to the better 4.5/5% alts you get in Dusseldorf, ABV ain’t everything!

Draft pour pint at special brews. Pours a dark brownish red color with a ton of head and lacing. Overly sweet bready aroma. Very rich flavor with a lot of bready flavor and sweet caramel malt. Definitely a beer for when there is snow on the ground. Not my favorite winter brew, but wouldn’t call it bad. UPDATE. Almost 10 years later this beer still going strong. I enjoy it more in my 30's. It's bold and flavorful. Warming. Toasty. Good brew

Poured from 1 pint 6 fl oz bottle. Clear, amber brown with full beige head. Aroma of toffee and caramel, some light nuts. Taste same with mild hops and a wintery balanced flavour. Medium body.

Muddy dark brown. No head. Aroma is a little bubblegummy. Sweet and bubblegummy, the malts are maybe a bit of caramel. Touch if chocolate but the overt sweetness of this brew and the phenols are entirely in the wrong direction.

Reviewed from notes. Consumed 11/16/13.
The appearance is a fairly dark copper/brown colored body with a somewhat thin less than a finger’s worth of head that dies practically within thirty seconds and leaves a decent amount of sticky lacing that eventually slides into the body.
The smell has a somewhat rich dark malty nuttiness, there seems to be some spice that I can’t really tell what it is, just a sort of spiciness
The taste is a mostly malty sweet, the spice from the aroma comes back to balance it a bit, an \"altbier-like\" malty aftertaste, somewhat dry finish.
The palate is about a medium, somewhat sessionable, carbonation is good for the style and for me as its just not harsh or smooth, just right on.
Overall, good altbier for the most part, that I think I would come back to, unsure if I’d actually buy it again, but just overall good

Pour is a dark red with a large tan head. Aroma is a nice dark malt with some toffee and a strong cherry. Flavor is sugary and dark malts with some nuttiness. Finish has more brown sugar with a bit of dark fruit. I don’t really get much in the way of hops but from this brewer I’m sure their in there. This is a decent beer for winter warming. Plenty malty and chewy.

12 oz six pack a gift from Enniskillen and Kiapepito (bottles decorated as reindeer) . Nose is sweet malty caramel, hints of bubblegum and floral, with a bit of roasty nuts. Cherry brown with a medium, heavy lacing beige head. Flavor is bitter up front with a tobacco-like note, and some background caramel/toffee, all the while the bubblegum hitting your olfactory sensors.