Winter Ale
(has 1 batch)
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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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2010 vintage Small off-white head, copper-brown beer. Bourbon, vanilla, vanillabeans, sweet chocolate and caramel. Very sweet, alcohol, mint and sparadrap. Not really very balanced, despite the aging of the bottle. Very slick, viscous and oily, alcoholwarming. Quite good, if, once more, terribly sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2013
at 09:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the source courtesy of ajax25g, thank you! Dark maroon brown, beige head. Aroma of smooth milk chocolate and caffe macchiato. Taste is roasted coffee and cocoa.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jul 2013
at 14:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap at Fremont, Seattle - 08/11/12. Very dark mahogony brown with a thin tan head that clears to the edge of the glass and forms a small film atop. Nose comprises dark fruits, toffee, a little spice, nutty tones, burnt caramelised sugars. Taste follows nose with hints of liqourice, dark fruits, touch of booze. Medium bodied with soft carbonation lending towards a bitter sweet finish. Not usually taken in by ’winter/xmas’ beers but this was half decent!
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Nov 2012
at 02:16
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Deep brown and auburn color with a small creamy beige head. Nose is sweet of caramel malts and light florals. Flavor is sweet and robust with caramel, toffee, faded citrus hops, and chocolate. I let this sit in the cellar longer than I wanted to, but in it’s (presumably) more mellow state the flavor still comes through strong and well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2012
at 16:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Ben! Pours a clear dark brown with a gray head that dissipates completely. Aroma has a good amount of sweet dark grains with a bit of light spice and grains underlying. Flavor begins has an earthy grain backed by light sweet grains with a hint of light fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2012
at 18:48
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz.Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy to fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, light hoppy, orange. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120320]
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2012
at 00:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ yespr. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma. Sweetish malty chocolate and caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty chocolate and caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2012
at 05:54
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
dark brown, light brown head. aroma of roasted malts, brown sugar. faint herbal biter hoppiness. flavor is roasted malts, coffee, bitter caramel.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2012
at 10:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A dark brown beer with a red shine under a tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of coffee, roasted malt, chocolate, and a bit of hops, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2012
at 09:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden amber with a small tan head. Aroma is mild fruity and caramelish malty. Smooth roasted malty, liqourice and dark breadish malty. Dense malty, bitter and dark malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2012
at 08:25