Spiced Winter Ale
Blue & Gray Brewing Co. in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.50
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Our Winter Seasonal "Spiced Winter Ale" is also now in stock through January. This beer is dark amber like our Fred Red Ale with seasonal spices such as cardamom, allspice, and cinnamon brewed in, as well as fresh orange zest. One taste and you’ll be filled with the seasonal spirit.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled on draft at the brewpub this beer poured a murky brown color with a medium size creamy tan head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was very assertive dry spices - clove, cinnamon and cardamom. The flavor was intensely spicy and overwhelms with just a hint of bread underneath. Very long spicy finish. Medium body. Spices overwhelm and start to distract quickly. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Nov 2013
at 11:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at the DC Local tasting. Bomber pours a translucent amber brown with a cloudy, dusty, slightly eggshell head. Heavy spice aroma, cloves, nutmeg, ginger with the sweetness of fall root vegetables, some orange too. Flavor is more spice, all spice, cloves, brown sugar, toast, oranges. Dry finish. No alcohol presence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2009
at 15:14
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle courtesy of dkachur on 08/01/2009. Clear dark amber / brown body with a small frothy off-white head. Big butter, nut, and gingerbread cookie aroma. Dry malt flavor with some nuttiness. Medium body with moderately low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2009
at 12:27
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
22 ounce bottle from Wine & Beer Westpark. Pours a hazy reddish brown color with a thin head. Aroma is big spices including ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon along with a little butterscotch and caramel. Taste is butterscotch with mild spiced and a faintly tart note. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2009
at 22:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 oz bottle. Pours a medium dark orange color with a small white head. Aroma is holiday spices, caramel. Flavor is again, holiday spices, though as others have said, it has characteristics of a pumpkin beer. Not a bad entry in a category that usually sees very mediocre beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2009
at 20:35