Sixth Day
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - Imperial Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.94
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jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at DadsThursday. Pours amber brown. Off white head. Nose and taste of fruit cake, toasted cinnamon and dark bread. Medium body.
gunnfryd (22089) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Red brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is fruit, berries, malt, hop. Flavour is fruit, berrries, roasted malt, hop, spices, caramel, alcohol. Bitter finish. Nice/OK beer.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Deep brown coloured body with a nice amber, copper, bronzed and orange tint, all with a thin, one centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of alcohol, pit fruits, raisins, peat, earth and some pungent malt. Medium to Slightly-Full-bodied; Strong metallic and earthy malt flavours at first with a pungent flavour, some caramel and toffee flavours and a hint of peat and light smoked specialty grain, like rye. Aftertaste has some deep bitterness from the caramelised sugars and the strong malt, but nothing too nice - just a little spice showing some anise and licorice, a little metallic earthy note and finishing with a hop-like bitterness, which is respectable. Overall, an interesting beer that was seemingly trying to merge styles, but this didn’t have great appeal and the profile just simply wasn’t there. The complexity was nice, but the flavours throughout just didn’t line up. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia on 08-January-2014 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 25-January-2014.
Ibrew2or3 (10834) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle pours with a copper to amber body that supports a thin nearly loose dark tan head. The modest aroma offers up malts and molasses as well as mild notes of brown sugar covered prunes, cherries, raisins and figs. The taste comes across as a malty light on the hops barleywine and I’m digging that. I get a mix of molasses, thick malts, ripe cherries and prunes. Behind those notes are slivers of roasted malts and a sweet nuttiness. This is pretty nice and would be fun to enjoy on a snowy winter night.
LeninCat (7983) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
Bottle @ home, picked up at Wilbur’s Fort Collins. Pours a fairly clear, reddish brown appearance with a big creamy brown head. Minty, radish/veggie, caramel, slight citrusy aroma. Twangy orange, burnt sugar cake, slight chocolate / caramel, spice, slight banana flavor. Really weird flavor that I really don’t particularly care for. Not good.
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle. I was expecting a rather insipid brown, so this is a pleasant surprise. Big, rich amber and brown malt tones. Malt and spice show, not really much hop character. The spices aren’t overboard, another pleasant surprise. Kind of reminds me of a tamer, better crafted Lakefront Holiday Spice beer. I guess this is what a good Winter beer taste like in the early 2000s in the Great Lakes. Good beer, solid value for $7.49 a six pack.
superspak (10160) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 10/7/2013. Pours cloudy dark ruby red color with a 2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big caramel, brown sugar, toast, orange peel, apple, pear, raisin, brown bread, floral, grass, pine, herbal, and toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of malt and hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, toast, orange peel, raisin, pear, apple, brown bread, light chocolate, floral, grass, pine, herbal, and toasted earthiness. Fair amount of earthy pine/herbal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toast, orange peel, raisin, pear, apple, brown bread, light chocolate, floral, grass, pine, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance, complexity, and robustness of dark malt and moderate hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a moderately creamy and lightly slick/sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice imperial brown ale. Good balance and complexity of dark malt and hop flavors; and very smooth to sip on. A very enjoyable offering.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear medium to dark orange amber colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, spicy, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, dried fruit, grass. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, hoppy, dry, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20131123]
jmagnus87 (3298) reviewed Sixth Day from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Sampled at a tasting event. Loads of malt start it out but there is a nice little hop kick in there too. Alcohol is totally hidden, I would have guessed 4-5% if I hadn’t looked it up first. Good shit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours deep mahogany into a Sam glass. Creamy off-white head with good retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet fruitcake aromas. Bittersweet caramel and earthy bread upfront turning to hot mulled fruit in the lasting burn finish.