Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale
Townsite Brewing in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.47
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from 650mL bottle. Mahogany brown with light tan head. Candi sugar, plum, and raisin, hint of spice. Good attempt at an abbey dubbel, but finish is a bit too metallic.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Deep brown body with a vibrant ruby tint and a thick, three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of toffee, caramel, malt, earth and a bit of english hops. Medium-bodied; Strong caramel and malt flavour at first with a big earthy and nutty flavour that persists throughout and only shows a touch of sugar at the tail end. Aftertaste shows some malt and funk with a lot of mushroomy flavours, but also a lot of sugars. Overall, a pretty typical beer with some good flavours, some bad ones and a decent finish. Not too much complexity and the flavours were decent at best, so this is probably worth passing on, especially if you have to bring it across country lines and all the way across the whole of the country. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Legacy Liqour Store in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 08-June-2015 for CA$10,65 sampled at home in Washington, on the other side of both countries on 16-December-2015.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Chestnut, tan head.Malt nose. Lightly yeasty malt palate,notes of brown sugar. Light alcohol and hops.1 of their best but that isn’t saying much
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle generously donated by the brewer and obtained via my colleague Marie, thanks very much for this one! A gentle and sunny afternoon in late September is probably not the time to have a winter ale, but I was too curious about this to wait for three more months... From a 65 cl bomber with nicely decorated label. Light gushing, but fortunately not too violently so. Pours a deep hazy burgundy brown-red colour, warm and attractive, under a lacing, medium sized, light yellowish white, moussy head with good retention. Aroma jumps into the nose with a truckload of melting brown sugar and cocoa nibs, along with hints of cinnamon, medlar, warm toasted bread, plum brandy, banana liqueur, sweet sherry, hazelnut paste, ruby port, marmelade, thin gooseberry sourness, clove- and slightly varnish-like phenols - the sweet and spicy, seductive bouquet of a rich, English style winter ale indeed. Some maderisation is already setting in too, but only to add complexity; this is clearly a beer which ages graciously. Rounded, sweet onset, residual brown sugar but not cloying at all, counterbalanced with a light fruity tartness (brambleberry, passionfruit); banana and candied orange flavours are there as well. Mouthfeel is soft and creamy, with medium carbonation. A smooth, oily, caramelly and nutty but also notably oxidized maltiness ensues, adorned with spicy hints and leading to a finish which brings some drought to further balance the initial sweetness; there is an earthy, lightly peppery hop bitterness doing its work, as well as a very light kind of lactic tartness, but too subtle to call it infected. Warming alcohol balances on the brink of astringency in the end and spicy phenols finish it off retronasally. A lush, elegant winter warmer, in which the ’overdose’ of sugar has fermented out very well, leading to a well-controlled sweetness with delicious liqueurish effects here and there, accentuating its English old ale affinities. Lovely example of the style!
TimE (11146) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
tons of caramel malty with raisins and cherries. Easy drinking. Lingering cherries and toffee finish.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - Tart. Plum, light raisin and soured malts. Deep clear Amber with a rich light brown head. Light soured malts, light perfume, plum and some raisin. Tart, medicinal and interesting.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at the Alibi Room, pours a dark mahogany with a small tan head. Aroma brings out licorice notes upfront, followed by coriander and a touch of toffee. Flavour is bizarre, bringing out a strange mix anise and coriander. This isn't cohesive at all. Really messy and rather unpleasant. Not my thing.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Mahogany-brown, thin head, slightly spicy, with brown sugar, a fairly estery note w light bubblegum phenols. Sweetish front, almost Belgian-level phenols resulting from the candi sugar, some nice raisiny, fruitcakey notes that are more in the Anglo-American tradition. Maybe a bit thin for something that should be a big-bodied beer. Better for the pub, but not hefty enough for the fireside.
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Bière d'Hiver Winter Ale from Townsite Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A reddish copper ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, nice sweet fruity malt with light oaked notes, banana and cloves, nice. In mouth, a smooth sweet dark fruity malt with light treacle, oak, very well done. Aged on oak chips. Cask Days 2013.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear dark brown with medium head. Aromas of grass, light chocolate, and hints of citrus and spice. Flavors of burnt malt, old raisins, and copper. Drinkable but not very inspiring.