Winter Warmer
Postmark Brewing
- From:
- Postmark Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Winter Warmer
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 1.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 30, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 17, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.84/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.84/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - a winter warmer sans the seasonal spices. I'm okay with that in theory.
This beer pours a mostly clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent crooked webbed lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, some lesser biscuity toffee, a subtle bruised domestic pome fruitiness, and some leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, those underwhelming toffee squares always put out at this time of the year, still muddled apple and friend(s) fruity notes, and more tame earthy, musty, and dead floral 'NW' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really causing any particular concern here, as such. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt, and confused hops making a lingering matter out of it.
Overall - this is a rather pleasant brew, but I would hardly peg it as a winter warmer. Gun to my head, I would still scream 'well-made ESB!!!!'. Anyways, forgoing the histrionics, these fine chaps claim right on the label (in English!), that they used no spices in this offering, and it shows, to no ill effect, IMHO. Too bad that suggestion is such a powerful influence on other, weaker minds, eh, wannabe Jedi?
Dec 20, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent crooked webbed lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, some lesser biscuity toffee, a subtle bruised domestic pome fruitiness, and some leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, those underwhelming toffee squares always put out at this time of the year, still muddled apple and friend(s) fruity notes, and more tame earthy, musty, and dead floral 'NW' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really causing any particular concern here, as such. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt, and confused hops making a lingering matter out of it.
Overall - this is a rather pleasant brew, but I would hardly peg it as a winter warmer. Gun to my head, I would still scream 'well-made ESB!!!!'. Anyways, forgoing the histrionics, these fine chaps claim right on the label (in English!), that they used no spices in this offering, and it shows, to no ill effect, IMHO. Too bad that suggestion is such a powerful influence on other, weaker minds, eh, wannabe Jedi?
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a deep chestnut brown with two fingers of foamy tan head.
Smell - Earthy and leafy hops, bready malts, traditional winter spices (clove, nutmeg, cinnamon), earthy yeast, touch of nutty aroma.
Taste - Roasted malts along with light to moderate bitterness from the earthy and leafy hops. Spices are subtle. Touch of dried fruit (reminds me of raisin or fig).
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Slightly sticky on the palate.
Overall - A winter warmer that emphasizes the balance between malts and hops, without being a giant spice bomb. Definitely a good winter choice for those who want something seasonal without too much spice or sweetness.
Dec 17, 2017Smell - Earthy and leafy hops, bready malts, traditional winter spices (clove, nutmeg, cinnamon), earthy yeast, touch of nutty aroma.
Taste - Roasted malts along with light to moderate bitterness from the earthy and leafy hops. Spices are subtle. Touch of dried fruit (reminds me of raisin or fig).
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Slightly sticky on the palate.
Overall - A winter warmer that emphasizes the balance between malts and hops, without being a giant spice bomb. Definitely a good winter choice for those who want something seasonal without too much spice or sweetness.
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