Winter Warmer Ale
No-Li Brewhouse

Winter Warmer AleWinter Warmer Ale
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From:
No-Li Brewhouse
 
Washington, United States
Style:
Winter Warmer
ABV:
7.5%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.7 | pDev: 13.51%
Reviews:
26
Ratings:
61
Status:
Active
Rated:
May 08, 2019
Added:
Jan 24, 2006
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  8
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Ratings by jimpdx:
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Rated by jimpdx from Oregon

4.41/5  rDev +19.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Nice spicy, piney big red ale
Mar 09, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 2.35 by Oh_Dark_Star from Washington

May 08, 2019
 
Rated: 2.5 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Jan 02, 2018
 
Rated: 2.81 by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)

Dec 23, 2016
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Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)

3.77/5  rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This is a dandy beer - not really "as advertised", but dandy nonetheless. It pours beautifully - frothy head, clear amber, lovely lacing as it disappears. To me, the flavour and smell scream "pale ale that got put into a winter warmer bottle by accident". There is plenty here to make me like it - bready malt, orange-pamplemousse hop bite, kinda like...a pale ale. I don't pick up much seasonal spice, though the warming ABV makes me happy in a Christmas kind of way?
Jan 14, 2016
 
Rated: 3.84 by andrenaline from Canada (ON)

Dec 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

Oct 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.91 by Taphouse_Traveler from Florida

May 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.01 by wynnwssn

Mar 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.52 by Sound_Explorer from Washington

Feb 20, 2015
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Reviewed by jdshep from Texas

2.82/5  rDev -23.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
full review: http://wp.me/p5urG4-gL
Poured a nice amber head. Small and lacy. Great amber/red hue. It was really difficult for me to get the light caramel smell I finally got. With the taste and palate this could almost be a year round beer. In my opinion, it wasn't what I have come to expect about the winter seasonals. Not saying it was a bad beer, just not what I was expecting. To me, I got an acidic taste up from with the bitterness coming in on the backend. It was on the lower end of the medium body.
Jan 15, 2015
 
Rated: 3.61 by Slongie from Canada (AB)

Jan 07, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.78/5  rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22oz bottle, apparently part of No-Li's Expo Series.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber hue, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some chunky iceberg profile lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, soft dark orchard fruit, a low-key orange and white grapefruit citrus bitterness, faint earthy spices, and a tame, lurking estery alcohol warmth. The taste is somewhat sugary toffee, softly grainy caramel malt, concentrated drupe fruit, a bit of seasonal spice - maybe some cinnamon, perhaps some nutmeg - fading weedy, piney, and citrusy hops, and ascending cold, steely booze.

The carbonation is adequate for the job at hand, what with its lifting frothiness, the body a sturdy middleweight, and more or less smooth, the malt taking on all comers, and even engendering a mote of creaminess as it warms. It finishes well off-dry, toffee this, caramel that, dark fruitiness over there, you get the picture, because the hops and alcohol kinda don't.

I suppose I shouldn't be so hard on this one, as one of the tenets of the style is a husky maltiness. Maybe it's my expectation of a PAC-NW brewer to hop the hell out of everything, but I know that to just be a (well-earned) stereotype. So, in the end, a tasty, engaging, and uber alles, warming (if edging on hot) winter brew.
Dec 29, 2014
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Rated by cjoordt from Oregon

4.75/5  rDev +28.4%
So incredible. That is all I have to say. There is nothing I would rather come home to on a snowy winter day than this beer.
Dec 14, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by johnnyboy76 from Oregon

Dec 08, 2014
 
Rated: 5 by Donoman from Washington

Dec 02, 2014
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Rated by DerAtomsmasher from Washington

3.56/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pretty boozy. Nothing special, except for the fact that there's no weird ass gingerbread spices floating around in this one.
Dec 01, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by LouZ from Washington

Nov 25, 2014
 
Rated: 3.6 by KlayWey from Idaho

Nov 25, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by RHVC59 from Oregon

Nov 21, 2014
Winter Warmer Ale from No-Li Brewhouse
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 61 ratings