Winter Cranberry Ale
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Winter Warmer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 4.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 06, 2014
- Added:
- Dec 15, 2013
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a dark chocolate brown with a finger width of mocha head.
Smell - Cocoa, hint of plum and tart cranberries, roasted malts.
Taste - Roasted malts and dry cocoa bitterness along with tartness from cranberries and plum. Light leafy hops.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall - A unique way to incorporate cranberries into a beer, far from the standard "cranberry wheat" method. Good roasted flavour that makes this a great winter warmer.
Jan 01, 2014Smell - Cocoa, hint of plum and tart cranberries, roasted malts.
Taste - Roasted malts and dry cocoa bitterness along with tartness from cranberries and plum. Light leafy hops.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall - A unique way to incorporate cranberries into a beer, far from the standard "cranberry wheat" method. Good roasted flavour that makes this a great winter warmer.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, another cool result from having the newish production brewery pumping things out for the whole province. Made with, well, cranberries and ale. Sexy frozen bog imagery on the label too.
This beer pours a pretty solid black, with subtle, pervasive cola highlights, and three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and mildly bubbly light brown head, which leaves some awkward Swiss cheese lace around the glass as things duly drop away.
It smells of toasted bready caramel malt, an oily nuttiness, slightly zippy dark fleshy fruit - prunes and craisins, really - a touch of bittersweet chocolate, and leafy, earthy hops. The taste is more lightly roasted caramel malt, a bit of wet biscuity bread, hollow mixed nuts, very innocuous blended fruit - the softest hint of cranberry tartness more evident than any remaining black pit fruit esters - mild musty cocoa notes, and plain earthy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are pretty low-key, and even hard to discern at times, the body an adequate medium weight, a bit thin from a flinty stoniness, and generally smooth. It finishes more dry than I might have thought, the veiled cranberry acridity making itself a little better known, amongst the faltering malt.
An easy enough to drink winter ale, though the guest ingredient is ethereal at best. The overall effect is that of a middling (very dark) brown ale, lightly touched by the holiday goodies. Worthy of a try, and a relative bargain in the seasonal offerings category around here, but somewhat unremarkable, and consequently not all that memorable, I'm afraid.
Dec 15, 2013This beer pours a pretty solid black, with subtle, pervasive cola highlights, and three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and mildly bubbly light brown head, which leaves some awkward Swiss cheese lace around the glass as things duly drop away.
It smells of toasted bready caramel malt, an oily nuttiness, slightly zippy dark fleshy fruit - prunes and craisins, really - a touch of bittersweet chocolate, and leafy, earthy hops. The taste is more lightly roasted caramel malt, a bit of wet biscuity bread, hollow mixed nuts, very innocuous blended fruit - the softest hint of cranberry tartness more evident than any remaining black pit fruit esters - mild musty cocoa notes, and plain earthy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are pretty low-key, and even hard to discern at times, the body an adequate medium weight, a bit thin from a flinty stoniness, and generally smooth. It finishes more dry than I might have thought, the veiled cranberry acridity making itself a little better known, amongst the faltering malt.
An easy enough to drink winter ale, though the guest ingredient is ethereal at best. The overall effect is that of a middling (very dark) brown ale, lightly touched by the holiday goodies. Worthy of a try, and a relative bargain in the seasonal offerings category around here, but somewhat unremarkable, and consequently not all that memorable, I'm afraid.
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