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RATINGS: 4   MEAN: 3.12/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.03   SEASONAL: Winter   EST. CALORIES: 264   ABV: 8.8%
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As everyone plods their way through holidays, we too found ourselves quite hectic, but not too hectic to make our delicious new Winter Ale. It is an American style Barley Wine, brewed with spruce tips from local spruce trees, it comes in at a respectable 8.8% alcohol. It is possible to ingest the taste of holidays? Why yes, yes it is.


3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
superspak (3629) - Michigan, USA - APR 21, 2015
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 11/17/2014. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy deep orange/copper color with a 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of caramel, toast, brown sugar, raisin, plum, apple, spruce, pine, herbal, grass, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, earthy hop/spruce, and light-moderate fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, toast, brown sugar, raisin, plum, apple, spruce, pine, herbal, grass, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Good amount of pine/grassy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toast, brown sugar, raisin, plum, apple, spruce, pine, and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Good robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt, earthy hops/spruce, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and fairly crisp/sticky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is a good strong ale style. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt, earthy hops/spruce, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth and crisp to sip on for the ABV. A nicely enjoyable offering.

2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
terrybail (704) - London, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 24, 2015
12 oz bottle from Steve for Christmas slightly hazy copper smells like a lager weakest thinnest barley wine I have ever tasted the 8.8 abv is well masked though

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
mabel (7455) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - DEC 12, 2014
[6147-20140124] Bottle. Cereal grains aroma. Clear, amber body with a quick foamy off-white head. Cereal flavour has a toasted grains aftertaste. Medium body. Average. (6/3/7/3/13) 3.2
(c/o DuctTape)

3.2
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
jercraigs (8825) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - FEB 1, 2014
2014-01-25. Dark orange amber body with a small tan head. Aroma of hops and grainy cereals. 6+ Flavour is fairly bitter, grainy and lightly astringent. Average bodied palate, modest carbonation. Bottle shared by DuctTape


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