Jingle Ale
CooperSmiths Pub & Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Other Regular|
Score
6.71
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From Dec 2006
Poured from 750ml capped and foiled bottle(2006 bottling) a clear(until the second por) light reddish gold with a large head of foam that dissipated slowly leaving a solid layer with lots of lacing.
The smell is very spicy. I can get nutmeg, cinnamon, some banana, clove. Pretty darned complex.
The taste is as spicy as the smell. Cinnamon seems to dominate but I can taste everything I mentioned in the smell plus there's Ginger and some dark fruit in there as well. Hint: The tastes are at their *peak* when you take really small sips; larger sips seem to blend all the flavours together too much and so, imo, diminishes the enjoyment of this Ale.
Oh, and I notice a fairly abundant amount of solid bits of floating yeast and although on the small side, the fact that they're there takes points, for me, off the appearance score but doesn't change the fact that this is a tasty Spiced beer. A more careful pour would probably stop the majority of them reaching your glass but, like I said, they're *really* small.
I notice that there's no given abv given for this brew and if I were to take a guess, I'd say it was somewhere between 7 and 8%abv as there's no alcohol in the taste and there's just a bit of warming.
Bottom line: Coopersmith's bottles a brew and I like it. I think the name Jingle Ale is appropriate because it does "feel" like Christmas drinking it. Give it a shot, I say. ;^)
LeninCat (7983) reviewed Jingle Ale from CooperSmiths Pub & Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Tap @ Coopersmiths. Pours an orangish amber appearance with a tan head. Huge spice rack aroma with a ton of ginger. More ginger in the flavor along with cloves, chewy bubblegum, and some citrus notes. Bleh.