First Snow Ale
Rockers Brewing Co. in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.19
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This hearty American pale ale contains a rich blend of spices that warms the soul on a cold winter’s night. Chill the mug, stoke the fire, and savor this quality seasonal brew. Available only during the Winter season, thusly, our featured beer.
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5/10
Amber pour. Thin foam. Clove spice nose. Clove and spice flavor with all spice palate. Easy carbonation
Tried
on 12 Mar 2021
at 00:44
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pumpkin and cardamom nose. Cloudy copper, full of sediment, medium head. Cardamom, pumpkin, subtle apple skin. Medium body, easy carbonation.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2021
at 00:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Hazy amber with a small, off-white head. Caramel and nutmeg scent. Taste is caramel malt, nutmeg, cinnamon, grain malt. Basic holiday spicing......but nicely restrained... Not bad....I’d have another.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2016
at 17:15
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Nutmeg, cinnamon, and biscuit malt aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet nutmeg, cinnamon, biscuit malt and mildly bitter herbal hay flavor. Decent body. Good spice flavor without overwhelming the flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2016
at 20:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours brownish amber, no head. Smells of honey and spice. Taste is honey/ginger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2015
at 06:25
3.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 1.5
The beer is amber colour and hazy in the glass. The nose is honey-spicy with hints of nutmeg. The beer starts highly carbonated and slightly sour. Has it turned? Winter is just over… but after three month? Sadly no best-before date on the bottle - so I have to guess that it has to taste like this! (that’s one reason why I hate US-laws concerning beer - but it is the brewery’s fault this time!)- The mainpart stays slightly sour, nice spicy aroma there, maltiness, but I dislike the sourish taste! The aftertaste is smooth malty, spicy with sour fruity elements!
A brew which is too sour for what it wants to be! And - as there is no best-by date - I once again have to assume that the brewers want it to taste like this! --> 4/10/3/4
A brew which is too sour for what it wants to be! And - as there is no best-by date - I once again have to assume that the brewers want it to taste like this! --> 4/10/3/4
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2014
at 20:48
6.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Super fluffy, rocky head, on hazy orange/gold body. Mild sweet, spicy aroma, gingerbread, fruitcake, etc. Taste is more of the same with a lean towards the sweet side. Slippery mouthfeel. Getting too close to spring to enjoy this style.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2014
at 16:58
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Christmas spices and nuts in the aroma. Cloudy orange amber, low golden head. Mellow mouthfeel, medium body. Slightly sticky, spices are a bit cloying at first, light fruit, a bit mealy. Not my cup of tea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2012
at 15:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Slightly hazy amber coloured body with a light copper/orangish glow and a thin off-white head. Aroma of spices, nutmeg, malt, nuts, coriander seed, meat and mushrooms and a touch of caramel. Medium-bodied; Assertive spicey flavour with some peat and metal in front of a malty and caramel finish - not much else. Aftertaste shows some spices, nuts and a rather lightish alcohol bite. Overall, a decent beer - the spices kind of work with a lighter beer, but not all the way - need more of a complex profile to pull this off. Decent, but definitely not my favourite winter beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 15-April-2010 sampled at home in Washington on 2-May-2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2010
at 19:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle. Hazy orange-amber color, nice frothy head. Big cinnamon-clove aroma. Pretty interesting in that it blends the think spiciness with a lighter, sessionable malt body. Not at all unlike a pumpkin beer, this is unapologetic in it’s overboard spicing. I can appreciate a unique winter beer, and this is certainly unique. Captures an almost creamy Belgian Golden Ale combined with the spicy characteristics of an American Pumpkin Ale. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2010
at 03:22