Auld Nick Winter Ale
R & B Brewing Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.37
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bitter vegetal aroma, lots of sharp spices, cinnamon, cardamom, and corriander. The flavor is again quite bitter, with a good dose of dry bitter hops. The bitter dry spices continue, and really dont let go. Very bitter dry finish.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Auld Nick Winter Ale from R & B Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft - Light toast. Deep brown with a rich light brown head. Light boozy, toffee and strong flavours. Too boozy and strong.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
650 ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with full head. Aromas of molasses, brown sugar, and roasted malts. Flavors of brown sugar, heavily roasted malts, and a light Christmas cake fruit and spice. Nice enough - warm for 6.5%.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Auld Nick Winter Ale from R & B Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught at Alibi Room, Vancouver
Black color; beige creamy head. Aroma of... nothing. Some caramel flavor, light residual sweetness, some dark malts, and light spices; correct bitterness. It reminds me of English Ales, but nothing exciting.
I didn’t notice I had missed this one for a few years.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Auld Nick Winter Ale from R & B Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650mL bottle, pours dark brown / black with a medium beige / tan head. Aroma of cola, sweet caramel malts and raisins. Flavour of sweet caramel / roasted malts, raisins, slight [holiday] spice notes, and cola - slightly bitter hoppy finish. Quite nice - enjoyed more than the average.
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Auld Nick Winter Ale from R & B Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Hazy reddish brown ale with floaties. The spices are still obvious here, with cinnamon and nutmeg (very x-mas) but strong lactic acid notes indicate infection. In mouth, a very vinagry brew, veering on a very bad Flemish sour, with arsh acrid notes, and light rubber. Bottle was about 6 months old.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Auld Nick Winter Ale from R & B Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Chestnut-mahogany colour. A little flat looking, with no head. Slightly phenolic aroma, with a hint of raisin, lightly roasty and tootsie rollish malts. A little bit spicy, yeasty on the palate with lots of dark malt. Finishes sweet and plummy. A bit thin, alcohol shows a bit too much at the end. Slight upgrade 2005 over 2004, mainly on the palate, which I probably underscored last time out. The 2006 actually scores a fair bit higher, as it has a bigger body and was on cask (thus, not as filtered as the bottles).
TimE (11146) reviewed Auld Nick Winter Ale from R & B Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
a dark murky brown color. The nose has dark fruit, cinnamon, caramel, mud, molasses and apple crumble. The medium lightly sour body gives why to a drastically dry finish. This beer is very hard to explain. However, the label is probably my favourite beer label of all time.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark brown, tan head.Initially dry nose, then notes of molasses with light alcohol.Molasses malt flavor with a dry finish as it warms. The alcohol heat isn't harsh but surprisingly it burns like brandy on the way down.Chewy. Will re rate, as I have a bit of a cold.