Winter Shredder
Cisco Brewers in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.14
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Gnar-Gnar Lumpkin, the shreddingist snowman this side of Nantucket Sound, likes nothing better than catching a wave on his board...a Cisco wave that is, cold, fresh, and wicked cool! Get mad shacked with the Shredder and have yourself a merry little winter.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Nice slightly hazy bronze and copper coloured body with a very nice ruby and orange tint with a thinnish tan head - pretty nice looking. Aroma of malt, caramel, toffee, nuts, earth, hints of metal and a decent amount of alcohol tucked inside. Medium-bodied; Assertive earthy and metallic malty flavours at first with a deep toffee and caramelised sugar flavour and some harsh bitterness near the end with earth coming out most. Aftertaste has the slightest hint of spices, but this is all about the caramelised sugars and the earthy malt with hints of peat and the smallest amount of hop bitterness thrown in. Overall, a decent beer - good for the wintertime, but not stellar by any means. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from New Beer Distributors in New York, New York on 13-July-2013 for US$2.00 sampled at home in Washington on 25-July-2013.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2013
at 22:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Pours a clear reddish copper color with a thin tan head. Fair head retention. Aroma of caramel malts, some toast and a spicy finish. The taste is spice, apples, toasted malts, caramel. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2013
at 22:11
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a dark orange-brown color with a medium sized foamy beige head that faded quickly but left good lacing. The aroma was bitter pine, molasses, cherry and nut. The flavor was intensely bitter and piney with notes of molasses, caramel, resin, a notable boozy presence and rough fruity hops. Long dryish finish of rough piney and fruity hops and lingering booziness. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Feb 2013
at 16:57
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 1/6/13
Aroma: The nose is a bit fruity, with some spice, toasted malts, earth, and floral notes
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish color with a small, creamy off-white head and drippy lace
Flavor: The taste is spice and sweetness, in an odd, unbalanced mix that just doesn't quite work
Palate: Medium bodied, it has a something unpleasant about the texture, with a lengthy, astringent finish
Overall Impression: I wasn't a bad fan of this one. It is a very nice looking beer, and the nose is decent enough as well, but there's something unpleasant and unbalanced that kind of takes over the flavor and leaves a poor feel on the mouth. Bleh...
Aroma: The nose is a bit fruity, with some spice, toasted malts, earth, and floral notes
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish color with a small, creamy off-white head and drippy lace
Flavor: The taste is spice and sweetness, in an odd, unbalanced mix that just doesn't quite work
Palate: Medium bodied, it has a something unpleasant about the texture, with a lengthy, astringent finish
Overall Impression: I wasn't a bad fan of this one. It is a very nice looking beer, and the nose is decent enough as well, but there's something unpleasant and unbalanced that kind of takes over the flavor and leaves a poor feel on the mouth. Bleh...
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2013
at 11:22
3.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
From a bottle. Smell is ok but a little volatile. Look is that of a darker beer. Taste is usual with these holiday spiced beer; rough, spicey and a little rude. Leaves a bit of astringent bitterness in the back of the throat and sice of the tongue. Nast nellie. Probably quite high on the alky level. Yes, an overall rudish beer. Not impressed. Wew. Good thing this has a little co2 or it would be a totally crappy beer experience.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2013
at 10:16
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle. deep mreddish brown color with a small bubbly beige head. Earthy woody spruce-like aroma. Bittersweet roasted malt flavor with hints of spruce, brown bread and leather. Dark dried fruits and black pepper in finish. Not worth seeking out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2012
at 20:39
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Pours a nice reddish brown color with a good sized bubbly white head that slowly dissipates to a cap. Smells of mineral water, licorice, a bit of brown sugar and a hint of earth. The flavor is really quite bad. Caramel and brown sugar atop a heavy presence of anise or licorice with a metallic earthy almost sulfur flavor. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet tart mouthfeel. I couldn’t finish this one it’s horrible.
Tried
on 09 Dec 2012
at 18:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours bright mahogany into a shaker. Off-white head with excellent retention pancakes leaving spider lacing to coat surface. Toasted nut bread aromas. Earthy bitter leaves and twigs upfront and straight through to the lasting bitter root finish. Quite a change. It’s flavor is more like "bitter" liquor than the typical bitterness of pine and grapefruit beer offerings.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2012
at 14:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Was really hoping this wouldnt be a winter seasonal like Cisco’s "Santas Beered", cause that tasted like cough syrup. This had the aroma of east coast hop variety ESB, color is ruby red to maroon. Obvious roasted malts with a nice hop kick in the back, a little spice to make it interesting.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2011
at 17:20