Slick Nick
Sebago Brewing Company in Gorham, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Winter|
Score
6.30
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jgb9348 (11734) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
s: nuts - caramelised sugars - rustic a: nice brown body - thin off-white head t: earthy - good toffee - raisins p: mild drinking - good malts - toasted o: complex yet easy - some cream - good earth 16 ounce can - Merchant's on the Corner: Presque Isle, Maine - 28-June-2023 - US$4,75 - canned: 24-October-2023 - sampled: 02-December-2023, sampled as Beer #2 of my 2023 Advent Calendar
tfontana (7150) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can pour into nonic pint glass from Cigarette City. Appearance is cloudy light brown/dark orange (like a thick apple cider) with good sparkle, finger-width beige head with poor retention and nice sudsy lacing. Aroma is bready malt with fruit. Taste is bready malt with caramel, slight fruit, some alcohol. Palate is medium-to-full bodied with thick texture and average to lively carbonation. Overall, not terribly complex but a good fit for the style.
johnnnniee (7492) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a deep copper color with a huge beige head that persists forever leaving moderate lacing on the glass. Hints of caramel and bready malt mix with earthy spicy hops make up the aroma. A slight mineral edge rounds out the nose. The flavor is toffee and caramel with bread mineral water and earthy spicy hops providing some bit of balance. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet slick mouthfeel. Not a bad beer, I could see myself drinking these.
AdamChandler (5747) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
caramel hues, minimal head with gorgeous lacing. nose is spices and caramel. nutmeg and some sugar. taste is ilght spices with honey and burnt texture. very wheaty and chewy.
DSG (25968) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Beer of the month club. Hazy dark amber color with a tiny off-white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, light hoppy notes (slightly stale) and light fruitiness. Sweetish malt flavor with caramel and grainy hints, continues moderately bitter with slightly resinous, dusty and kinda old hops. Medium-bodied. Not great, possibly past its prime.
CLW (16720) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Transparent amber, no head or lace in my pint. Smells mostly of caramel and bread. Spicy hop in the finish. It is balanced well. Decent and drinkable. Good but you don’t have to seek it out.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours light mahogany into a snifter. Off-white head quickly recedes leaving scant lacing. Sweet tea aromas. Thin with upfront dark caramel turning sharply bitter in the lasting finish.
jcwattsrugger (14779) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
@NH Brewers Fest-on tap-pours a light tan head and copper color. Aroma is mild grain/medium malt, herbal. Taste is grain/medium malt, herbal hops. Some crispness/dry.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Slick Nick from Sebago Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Winter ’06 bottle consumed on 7/8/07
Don’t know if the age helped on this one, but I’ll be damned if I wasnt impressed here. Still a fairly dense, chocolate-beige head atop a dark, maroon-amber body that is quite clear and shows plentiful carbonation. Head retention is moderate as is the lacing.
The black malt really shines through in this one and produces some interesting characteristics. Anise and light coffee show through, and become entwined with the caramel malts and strong ester profile giving off a touch of vinousness, or maybe more accurately, some dry cola-like notes. Sweet base malts comforts the finish as black pepper and fruity and leafy hop notes join in, adding a low, but pleasing bitterness. Soft, creamy body, just short of being too sweet, but keeping in mind it’s a winter warmer, it’s more than amply attenuated. More resin and intriguing black malt notes sit on the finish giving notes of currants and more dry cola.
Aroma is fairly muted, however, only allowing light caramel-vanilla maltiness and a touch of anise to peek through. Alcohol well-concealed in both flavor and aroma, no faults that I could find.
Not an ESA, though I don’t have a better suggestion.