Hibernation Winter Ale
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Winter Warmer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.04 | pDev: 11.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 07, 2014
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.23/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.23/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Appearance - Pours a dark nut brown with a finger of bubbly tan head.
Smell - toasted caramel malts, winter spices (cinnamon, nutmeg), hint of chocolate, earthy and leafy hops, hint of wheat.
Taste - Starts off with a hint of the toasted caramel malts, slight winter spices (cinnamon, nutmeg) then goes into the notes of chocolate, wheat, and earthy and leafy hops.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light carbonation. Finishes dry with notes of chocolate and a lingering light bitterness from the earthy and leafy hops.
Overall - A winter warmer that had a good aroma. I found the taste to fall flat as the I was hoping for more of the toasted caramel malts and the winter spices to make more of a appearance.
Jan 15, 2015Smell - toasted caramel malts, winter spices (cinnamon, nutmeg), hint of chocolate, earthy and leafy hops, hint of wheat.
Taste - Starts off with a hint of the toasted caramel malts, slight winter spices (cinnamon, nutmeg) then goes into the notes of chocolate, wheat, and earthy and leafy hops.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light carbonation. Finishes dry with notes of chocolate and a lingering light bitterness from the earthy and leafy hops.
Overall - A winter warmer that had a good aroma. I found the taste to fall flat as the I was hoping for more of the toasted caramel malts and the winter spices to make more of a appearance.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev +12.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.43/5 rDev +12.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
650ml bottle. I'm kind of curious whether this is just last year's Winter Cranberry Ale, sans the fruit, though the label imagery does inspire in me the desire to plan a vacay in the mountains, even if I verily cannot, sigh.
This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with one finger of weakly foamy, and generally bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of spooky deer antler lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of grainy caramel malt, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg (so, gingerbread, really), a sort of metallic flintiness, and tame earthy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is bready caramel malt, a subtle biscuity toffee sweetness, reduced, and certainly now muddled seasonal spices - maybe some ginger, maybe some all-spice, maybe some clumsy clove - a touch of meaty yeast, and plain earthy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are pretty average in their mixed fizzy and frothy frolicking, the body just on the lee side of medium weight, and more or less smooth, a mild clamminess present from the start, but growing commensurate with the ambient temperature. It finishes well off-dry, the now yeasty caramel malt hangin' tough, among the detritus of the spices that once were, briefly.
Yeah, not a particularly engaging winter ale, the unfinished-seeming yeasty character tanning my palate's hide, as it were. Anyways, the whole disjointed nature of this offering suggests more time needed at the proverbial drawing board, and perhaps a stronger appreciation of the subtleties of judicious spice application. Sorry, guys, but tough love is where we're all at right now.
Dec 07, 2014This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with one finger of weakly foamy, and generally bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of spooky deer antler lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of grainy caramel malt, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg (so, gingerbread, really), a sort of metallic flintiness, and tame earthy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is bready caramel malt, a subtle biscuity toffee sweetness, reduced, and certainly now muddled seasonal spices - maybe some ginger, maybe some all-spice, maybe some clumsy clove - a touch of meaty yeast, and plain earthy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are pretty average in their mixed fizzy and frothy frolicking, the body just on the lee side of medium weight, and more or less smooth, a mild clamminess present from the start, but growing commensurate with the ambient temperature. It finishes well off-dry, the now yeasty caramel malt hangin' tough, among the detritus of the spices that once were, briefly.
Yeah, not a particularly engaging winter ale, the unfinished-seeming yeasty character tanning my palate's hide, as it were. Anyways, the whole disjointed nature of this offering suggests more time needed at the proverbial drawing board, and perhaps a stronger appreciation of the subtleties of judicious spice application. Sorry, guys, but tough love is where we're all at right now.
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