Sleigh'r Winter Ale
Ninkasi Brewing Company in Eugene, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Altbier Regular|
Score
6.62
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Tasting Notes
An Alt ferments with Ale yeast at colder lagering temperatures. This effect gives Alts a more refined, crisp lager-like flavor than traditional ales. The Alt has been “Ninkasified” raising the ABV and IBUs. Sleigh'r has a deep, toasted malt flavor that finishes dry and balanced.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
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!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
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
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
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.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Sleigh'r Winter Ale from Ninkasi Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
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
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
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.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Dark amber with dark off white head - Good malt aroma with some caramel - Mlat body with some caramel, raosted malt and bitterness in the back - Roasted malt and bitterness goes into the finish that lasts for some time - This was ok
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
650 ml bottle. Pours a dark mahogany with light head. Not much of a nose. Light aromas of red fruits, candy, and toasted malts. Flavors of malts, fruit and bitter hops. But nothing special.