Icicle Creek Winter Ale
Portland Brewing Company
- From:
- Portland Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Winter Warmer
- ABV:
- 5.62%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 19, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Its not every day it takes until the end of 2019 to add a beer to the database that won Silver in 1995 at the World Beer Championships. But today is that day.
Pours a darker color with brown and dark red as the coloring with a light off white head 1/3" deep. Right away it was one of the hoppier winter beers I had, whereas Samuel Smith's (my entry one) was smooth, more amber, lighter, this was more full bodied similar to Celebration Ale with a taste very similar to the Cascade, Chinook and Centennial blends. The styrian golding dry hopping is something you just didn't and still don't see all too often, if ever outside of this example.
That hoppiness continued into the taste mixing caramel, toffee, nuttiness and C hoppiness all into the taste buds. At only 5.6% it was one of the first beers with major flavor that didn't involve getting majorly wasted. A maltier but dry mouth feel and finish made this a beer to look forward to every year. Came in a blue colored package.
Dec 19, 2019Pours a darker color with brown and dark red as the coloring with a light off white head 1/3" deep. Right away it was one of the hoppier winter beers I had, whereas Samuel Smith's (my entry one) was smooth, more amber, lighter, this was more full bodied similar to Celebration Ale with a taste very similar to the Cascade, Chinook and Centennial blends. The styrian golding dry hopping is something you just didn't and still don't see all too often, if ever outside of this example.
That hoppiness continued into the taste mixing caramel, toffee, nuttiness and C hoppiness all into the taste buds. At only 5.6% it was one of the first beers with major flavor that didn't involve getting majorly wasted. A maltier but dry mouth feel and finish made this a beer to look forward to every year. Came in a blue colored package.
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