Winter Beer 2012
Innis & Gunn

Winter Beer 2012Winter Beer 2012
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From:
Innis & Gunn
 
Scotland, United Kingdom
Style:
English Porter
ABV:
7.4%
Score:
83
Avg:
3.68 | pDev: 12.5%
Reviews:
35
Ratings:
136
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 26, 2017
Added:
Oct 28, 2012
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  7
Porter brewed with molasses.
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Reviewed by Phineasco from Massachusetts

3.93/5  rDev +6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
5 year old bottle
Look: Dark amber, with thin white head that recedes quickly.
Smell: Caramel, toffee, butterscotch, maple syrup, and molasses.
Taste: Caramel, toffee, butterscotch, black cherry, maple syrup, and molasses.
Mouthfeel: Thin.
Overall: This beer was probably past its prime, but solid.
Aug 26, 2017
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Reviewed by StoutElk_92 from Massachusetts

4.21/5  rDev +14.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
11.2 oz. bottle

Pours clear red amber with a creamy off-white light khaki colored foam head. Smells nutty, oaky, slightly sweet with big molasses, roasty toasted malt, oak, smoke, spice, caramel, toffee, some plum, cherry, fig, dried fruits, with floral earthy herbal grassy pine. Tastes like huge molasses, roasty toasted malt, some smoke, spice, oak, caramel, toffee, dried fruits, plum, cherry, fig, with floral earthy herbal grassy pine. Feels medium-light bodied, creamy with moderate carbonation. Overall a real nice oak aged porter with molasses.
Jul 08, 2017
 
Rated: 4.06 by Cuervo_PCB from Florida

Aug 22, 2016
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Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey

2.84/5  rDev -22.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
**
02/07/2013
AROMA: Potatoes and carrots on the nose. Seaweed?
LOOK: Dark brown, but clear color and a bit thin looking for a porter. Small head.
TASTE: More carrots and sugar throughout.

Very drinkable.

Loses some overall points for not really seeming like a porter. More like an amber.

**
Jun 12, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by skaboom420 from Pennsylvania

May 02, 2015
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Rated by BlackhammerOhio from Tennessee

4.41/5  rDev +19.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Nice winter beer even after 3yrs.
Jan 20, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by RedAleMan from Canada (ON)

Dec 16, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by R_Kole from Canada (AB)

Nov 01, 2014
 
Rated: 3.88 by dynosaurus

Sep 20, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by malfunxion from New York

Aug 23, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Jul 20, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by Cloaked_Phantom from Washington

Jul 19, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by Loco_Joe from New York

Apr 05, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by TheBeerdedCharmer from Pennsylvania

Mar 16, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by InspectorBob from New Jersey

Mar 16, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by Fettpopps from Massachusetts

Mar 16, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by shigg85 from Japan

Jan 15, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by paresis from Massachusetts

Jan 05, 2014
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Reviewed by scotorum from Massachusetts

4.38/5  rDev +19%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Some age on this, the bottle reads: "Winter Beer 2012, Porter Brewed With Molasses." It came as part of a leftover 2012 threepack giftset of different Innis & Gunn beers and one of their flute glasses. My local store was selling them for $7 over the summer. I bought six. Such a deal for a beer that normally sells for $11+/4 and does not usually deteriorate for years.

Poured from the 11.2 oz,. bottle into a Samuel Smith English tulip glass.

a: Clear reddish-brown with a huge two inch tan head which receded slowly to heavy rocky surface foam and some lacing. Light-colored for a porter.

s: Strong booze and caramel malt. There may be no barrel-aged beer with more immediately obvious and persistent whiskey or rum aroma than Innis & Gunn, and this version is no different in that department.

t: Sweet malt under heavy boozy flavor that lingers a long time in the mouth. Any smokiness from either the dark malt or oak barrels is totally overshadowed by the liquor the barrels originally held. Yet 7.4 ABV feels more like 5.

m: Light, almost watery, surprisingly light given the color and head retention. Sinfully easy-drinking as a result.

o: If you want normal porter flavor, go elsewhere. The booze flavor from the barrel aging dominates over the caramel malt all the way. If you like that, and I do, you'll forgive the fact that the taste is otherwise off style, or that the "brewed with molasses" noted on the bottle is not really evident either.
Dec 27, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by rderedin from Maine

Dec 25, 2013
Winter Beer 2012 from Innis & Gunn
Beer rating: 83 out of 100 with 136 ratings