Winter Session Ale
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyWheat Ale Winter Out of Production
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Score
6.35
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This winter wheat beer uses dark malting to provide subtle toasty notes. We then single-hop and dry-hop this beer with Citra hops from our friend Brad’s farm. Interesting pineapple notes from the Citra hop provide a stark contrast to the toasty notes in the body. An engaging and sessionable Winter Seasonal.
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5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle (from saveur biere, ac #22). Pours copper-amber. Aroma is grass, hops, butter. Flavor is sweet and bitter, grass, butter, malt. Finish is bitter. Overall: not good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2016
at 16:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours clear, very dark brown. Good white head. Smell is bit malty, rather weak. Taste is bitter, rather intense, really. mild coffee undertone, some mild malts. not bad, but rather simple. OK
Tried
on 19 Nov 2016
at 07:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours brown from a bottle, citrus hop aroma, wheat toast flavor, rather bitter throughout. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 22:29
6/10
Tried
on 18 Dec 2014
at 20:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass due to the fact that this is not a dunkelweizen. Here’s why.
The appearance was a dark brown color with a close resemblance to black color. The head was about a finger’s worth of white foaminess that dissipated within less than a minute leaving some light lacing sliding into the beer.
The smell had some dark roasted chocolate malts with no banana esters any where in the entire 6 pack.
The taste was mainly sweet through the chocolate malts with a light roasty coffee quality in the background.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but smooth.
Overall, for an American dark wheat ale it fits but not as a true dunkelweizen.
This was poured into a pint glass due to the fact that this is not a dunkelweizen. Here’s why.
The appearance was a dark brown color with a close resemblance to black color. The head was about a finger’s worth of white foaminess that dissipated within less than a minute leaving some light lacing sliding into the beer.
The smell had some dark roasted chocolate malts with no banana esters any where in the entire 6 pack.
The taste was mainly sweet through the chocolate malts with a light roasty coffee quality in the background.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but smooth.
Overall, for an American dark wheat ale it fits but not as a true dunkelweizen.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2014
at 02:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle from Orchard Fresh, Orchard Park, NY. A chestnut pour with a thin cream head; toasted malt aroma; fruity, pineapple taste; and a thin but lingering, dry, toasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2014
at 16:47
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle, best enjoyed before July 2013, poured into a shaker. Pours clear amber with small off-white head, and medium lacing. Medium body, medium/low carbonation, and nice herbal hop aroma. Taste is caramel malt, grapefruit, and herbal hops. Not a dunkleweizen.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2013
at 19:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from State Line, 1/31/13
Aroma: The nose is fairly sweet and sugary, with leaves, tea, fruity notes, and a little caramel
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish-brown color with a tan head and mid-heavy lace
Flavor: Tastes mid-plus sweet, lots of odd leafy notes, some tea flavor, and a light-mid bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium, it drinks cleanly, with average carbonation, and a mild dryness
Overall Impression: This is some solid stuff, not a favorite for me, but sold stuff. There are a few different things going on, but overall, it works pretty well. For a winter beer with a nice low ABV, I could see this being an easy one to session. Interesting, but still clearly not great.
Aroma: The nose is fairly sweet and sugary, with leaves, tea, fruity notes, and a little caramel
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish-brown color with a tan head and mid-heavy lace
Flavor: Tastes mid-plus sweet, lots of odd leafy notes, some tea flavor, and a light-mid bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium, it drinks cleanly, with average carbonation, and a mild dryness
Overall Impression: This is some solid stuff, not a favorite for me, but sold stuff. There are a few different things going on, but overall, it works pretty well. For a winter beer with a nice low ABV, I could see this being an easy one to session. Interesting, but still clearly not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2013
at 17:00
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear brown color with a medium sized frothy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of caramel malts, burnt sugar and citrus hops. The taste is citrus hops, earth, toffee, burnt notes. Medium bodied. A little weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2012
at 22:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home in Salisbury. Thanks, Mom! Pours clear, copper-red with a creamy, off-white foam head. Has a rather nice aroma of toasted caramel, pine, orange, and sweet bread. Flavor follows reasonably well. Quite citrusy with light to medium sweetness, plenty of toasty bread, modest bitterness. Light to medium bodied with mouth-filing, lively carbonation. Slightly sticky to finish, mild sweetness, some citrus, pine and grass hops, light toast. Decent enough beer, though the overall character seems to falter after the aroma and limp a bit thereafter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2012
at 17:07