Winter Ale
Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Winter|
Score
7.25
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This is a tasty Winter Ale to snuggle up to, released for the winter months when snow blankets the terrain of the mind and the body craves warmth and, let’s be honest, it’s dark and wet most of the time so your beer better be damn good. Winter Ale is dark like the weather with roast chocolate and warm malt flavors balanced by noble hop aroma and subtle hoppy spice. Warm up to it. Because Beer Matters!
Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale, Munich, C-120, Chocolate, and Carafa 2 malts with Roast Barley and Columbus, Willamette, and Golding hops.
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 60
Color: Deep crimson brown
Aroma: Dark chocolate, fig, winter spice
Flavor: Molasses, coffee, roasted malts
Availability: November 1 – December 31
Fresh Range: 90 days from packaged-on date
Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale, Munich, C-120, Chocolate, and Carafa 2 malts with Roast Barley and Columbus, Willamette, and Golding hops.
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 60
Color: Deep crimson brown
Aroma: Dark chocolate, fig, winter spice
Flavor: Molasses, coffee, roasted malts
Availability: November 1 – December 31
Fresh Range: 90 days from packaged-on date
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.473l can. Aroma of caramel, pine and citrus. Pours clear dark brown color with soapy light brown head. Taste starts refreshing fruity and piney with sweet and rich toasted malty backbone, following is herbal and medicinal, mouthfeel is smooth and mild spicy, while finish is dry and bitter. Full body, creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. Strong winter warmer…
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 11 Nov 2025
at 17:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Blik 47,3cl thuis. Dried fruits, pruim, rozijn, carameltonen, licht roasted malts, kaneel, bittertonen, licht chocolade, wat droog, wat rood fruit. (3-10-2025).
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 03 Oct 2025
at 16:01
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
US Pint can from Hi-Time Wines, Costa Mesa; drank on 10th April 2025. Loved the can design, loved the beer, Fremont could well become my favourite American brewery if they keep producing beers like this for me to find. Dark brown body, off-white head. Malty with dark chocolate and a herbal twist in the aroma, taste also holds a chocolate and spicy feel within the malty base.
Tried
from Can
from
Hi-Time Wine Cellars
on 10 Apr 2025
at 20:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from The Watering Hole. Pours deep brown with red highlights. Tan head that lingers with a solid collar and small cap. Spice and fig on the aroma. Fig, chocolate and slight spruce tips on the flavor.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2024
at 04:28
7/10
Magus, linnaseline, herbaalne, mündine. Ok.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2024
at 03:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
4oz pour at brewery. Pours murky brown with a tan head. Aroma has breadk dark malts, gentle spices like cinnamon, cloves. Flavour has dark malts, some roast, an assortmant of spices. This is fine.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2024
at 02:43
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Can via Beer Republic. Med-full body, med-high carbonation. Medium bitterness, med-light sweetness, nice balance, feels well attenuated, easy drinking. Lots of rich chocolatey, nutty maltiness. Very tasty, very good.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2024
at 22:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
16 oz. can. Pours black, with a small, fizzy, tan head. The nose is pumpernickel, cloves, toffee, walnuts, and light star anise. Sweet and malty, with a mellow, background bitterness. Medium body, grainy, and a bit thin. Nice, earthy, and quality.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2024
at 22:28
7.4/10
Tried
on 17 Nov 2023
at 21:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
355ml can. Pours very dark brown. Chocolate, tobacco, leather, vanilla, plum, bit of spicy dried fruit Christmas cake. Good soft body. Great melt complexity. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Mar 2019
at 07:19