Winter Nights Black & Tan
Shaftebury Brewing in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Strong Ale - American Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.29
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Murky brown, small tan head.Faint coffee nose.Light malt and coffee flavor with some roasty bitterness in the finish. Actually, I like it.. note-as it warms I get a hint of chocolate.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Winter Nights Black & Tan from Shaftebury Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Murky, dull chestnut colour with hardly any head at all. Aroma of spent grains, coffee grounds, nut shells...emptiness is definitely a theme here. The grainy flavours are more fully expressed on the palate, with a very chewy light coffee/nut characteristic playing off of sweet pale malts. The two are quite distinctive yet work together well, which you want to see in something proclaiming itself to be a black and tan. This one strong point, however, does not entirely override the fact that the beer on the whole has that muddled, incohesive character that I often find when a large brewery tries to brew flavourful beer. By the type of roasty flavours I’m getting and the strength of the beer, odds are good that the "black" is Okanagan Porter while the pale malt tone harkens back to Shaftebury’s East Van days but which today is found more clearly in Okanagan’s pale lagers. So I’m not sure what the "tan" would be.