Taste the Difference Winter Warmer Ale
Badger Brewery, Hall and Woodhouse
- From:
- Badger Brewery, Hall and Woodhouse
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Winter Warmer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 12.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 26, 2026
- Added:
- Nov 23, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This easy drinking fruity beer is brewed using traditional British hop varieties of Goldings and WGV (Whitbread Goldings Variety) to give an understated noble character. This allows the fruity fig notes to give a lasting, delicious mouthfeel. A great beer to enjoy alongside honey glazed sausages.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
3.66/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.66/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Sainsbury's 500ml brown glass bottle pouring a clear mid brown coloured body with slightly off white head that is big and frothy but has a good level of retention
Aroma is cough syrup with nice slightly sweet malt
flavour has army and navy boiled sweet notes
Apr 26, 2026Aroma is cough syrup with nice slightly sweet malt
flavour has army and navy boiled sweet notes
Reviewed by Caspase from England
2.79/5 rDev -20.1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5
2.79/5 rDev -20.1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5
500mL bottle. BBE 11/2026.
Appearance: 3. Clear dark amber with lots of short-lasting fizz and minimal head.
Smell: 4. Raisins and dried figs, white wine, sandalwood, cinnamon and allspice.
Taste: 2.5. Toasted malts, sweet artificial-tasting fig, mild hop bitterness.
Feel: 1.5. Decent body. Very strange mouth-numbing finish. Initially high carbonation, but after a few sips turns to low carbonation.
Overall: 2.5. What was likely a nice amber beer has been combined with artificial-tasting fig flavouring and a strange numbing chemical finish. Would not recommend.
Feb 22, 2026Appearance: 3. Clear dark amber with lots of short-lasting fizz and minimal head.
Smell: 4. Raisins and dried figs, white wine, sandalwood, cinnamon and allspice.
Taste: 2.5. Toasted malts, sweet artificial-tasting fig, mild hop bitterness.
Feel: 1.5. Decent body. Very strange mouth-numbing finish. Initially high carbonation, but after a few sips turns to low carbonation.
Overall: 2.5. What was likely a nice amber beer has been combined with artificial-tasting fig flavouring and a strange numbing chemical finish. Would not recommend.
Reviewed by Spike from England
3.48/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
500ml brown glass bottle.
L: Clear, red mahogany colour with one finger of short-lived, off-white foam.
S: Red cherries.
T: Strawberry, blackcurrant & fig. Very dry.
F: A hint of richness is lost beneath the astringent bitterness.
O: Brewed for Sainsbury’s Supermarket’s ‘taste the difference’ range. A low abv winter warmer. Extra fruity, extra malty, extra dry. Mouthfeel is disappointingly light for the style.
Mar 18, 2025L: Clear, red mahogany colour with one finger of short-lived, off-white foam.
S: Red cherries.
T: Strawberry, blackcurrant & fig. Very dry.
F: A hint of richness is lost beneath the astringent bitterness.
O: Brewed for Sainsbury’s Supermarket’s ‘taste the difference’ range. A low abv winter warmer. Extra fruity, extra malty, extra dry. Mouthfeel is disappointingly light for the style.
Reviewed by vinicole from England
4.02/5 rDev +15.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +15.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Bottle. Previously brewed by Eagle.
Clear mid amber. Thick frothy and billowy head.
An hedgerow fruit aroma. Blackberry, blueberry, pear and cider toffee apple.
A taste of orchard. More malt than the smell produced. Bitter finish.
Well carbonated. Medium body.
An appreciated imbibe during Storm Bert.
Nov 23, 2024Clear mid amber. Thick frothy and billowy head.
An hedgerow fruit aroma. Blackberry, blueberry, pear and cider toffee apple.
A taste of orchard. More malt than the smell produced. Bitter finish.
Well carbonated. Medium body.
An appreciated imbibe during Storm Bert.
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