Goose Island Beer Company Mild Winter

Mild Winter

 

Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Winter Out of Production
Score
6.64
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 28 Ticks: 74
Toffee brown, medium-bodied, with a creamy head and an aroma of raisins and freshly baked dark bread. Mild Winter’s rich caramel malt and spicy rye flavors are sure to take the bite out of whatever Old Man Winter brews up for you this year.
 

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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
It pours a dark amber and gives more of a dark black to brown body. An inch of white foamy head appears and dies to a half centimeter while leaving some nice speckled lacing coating the upper part of the pint glass. The smell has caramel and fruit up front with a bit of nuts in the background. The taste is the same adding a bit of breadiness to it. The mouthfeel is light to medium with a dry finish. This is a very drinkable beer. Overall, this is a solid beer for its style, but just mediocre to me.
Tried on 02 Feb 2013 at 17:32

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle. Clear reddish brown color with a big beige head. Malty aroma with rye, caramel, biscuits, toasted bread, some graininess and light fruity notes.. Sweet malty flavor, caramelly and toasty, with rye spiciness, a faint fruity hint and a somewhat bitter finish with some minerally/earthy/metallic notes. Medium-bodied. Not my thing.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2013 at 13:10

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Draught at Mckay’s Taphouse, Bellingham
Dark mahogany color with creamy head. Light roasted malt aroma, roasted nuts. Some flavor of roasted malts, caramel, earth; correct bitterness.
Nice but expected.
Tried from Draft on 08 Jan 2013 at 22:08

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle. Bright dark amber color with a medium-sized beige head. Assertive bready malt nose hints at nutty and spicy. Tart toasted malt flavor with a biting crisp dry grainy character. Finish is bitter with herbal hops.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Dec 2012 at 21:11

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
A rather indistinct little ale - nothing off-putting, just not very exciting...lacking depth - nose is a little bit of dark bread and raisin - flavor is somewhat bready, with moderately spicy rye - finish is lightly bitter, but with a bit of toffee behind it - not much happening, but okay.
Tried on 07 Dec 2012 at 18:28

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle @ home. Pours a dark orange/brown appearance with a nice brown head and good lacing. Fairly spicy rye, caramel, light chocolate, toffee, a bit herbal aroma. Kind of chewy rye malty, bready, moderately spicy, allspice, caramel flavor. Not bad.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Nov 2012 at 22:38

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
18th December 2009
Clear brown beer, modest white head. Crisp palate, semi dry. Malty beer, slightly creamy but with a vague hint of smoke. Finishes softer but still dry. Fresh malty beer. Okay.
Tried on 04 Jun 2012 at 05:04

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
35,5 cl bottle @ O’Hara’s Freehouse. Rated on 22.01.2011
Aroma is somewhat malty with chocolate and some metallic notes. Flavour is also malty with semi‐dark chocolate, some coffee, hints of hay and metallic notes. Drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 19 May 2012 at 09:01

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a dark brown with about a half finger of off-white head. Aroma of toffee and caramel. Taste is light sweet. Caramel and bready malt. Medium bodied with a somewhat thin texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, not bad. I’d drink it again.
Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2012 at 17:48

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Location: 12 oz bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 5/7/12

Aroma: The nose has some sweet malts, caramel, bread, a little roast, fruit, and nuts
Appearance: Pours a clear caramel-amber color with a foamy beige head and medium lace
Flavor: The taste is fairly sweet and malty as well, much like the nose, with a light earthy hop flavor
Palate: Medium bodied, with a slight stickiness, an easy drinkability, soft carbonation, and a light dryness
Overall Impression: Overall, this beer is fine. Fine is really the only way to describe it. I didn't love it or hate it. I'd drink it again, but not with any particular urgency.
Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2012 at 18:12