Winter Warmer
Blindman Brewing
- From:
- Blindman Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Winter Warmer
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 2.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 08, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 18, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
473ml can, a collaboration with Van City's Steel & Oak Brewing, and no. 1 in the Terminus Series, which is apparently an ode to the CPR siding from Lacombe's early days.
This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick brown colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some dispersing campfire smoke lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of bready and crackery caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some black fruitiness (prunes and dried cherries, perhaps), brown sugar, a wisp of free-range ashiness, and some plain earthy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and doughy caramel malt, wet breakfast biscuits, a twinge of rye spiciness, muddled dark fruit esters, brown sugar syrup, now ethereal smokey notes, and more understated leafy, floral, and grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its swirling and coddling frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really extant here that might cause a ruckus. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity character of the malt doing a bang-up job of moderating the otherwise runaway train sweetness.
Overall, this is a very pleasant and engaging old English stock ale (as they refer to it on the label, though I don't think I've ever had such a thing), rather than what you might be expecting in terms of a Winter Warmer. Yes, don't go looking for spices, but the warming capability here is strong, in that the 6.7 points of the ol' sauce are not noticeable in the least. Good stuff - looking forward to more of it!
Dec 25, 2016This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick brown colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some dispersing campfire smoke lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of bready and crackery caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some black fruitiness (prunes and dried cherries, perhaps), brown sugar, a wisp of free-range ashiness, and some plain earthy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and doughy caramel malt, wet breakfast biscuits, a twinge of rye spiciness, muddled dark fruit esters, brown sugar syrup, now ethereal smokey notes, and more understated leafy, floral, and grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its swirling and coddling frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really extant here that might cause a ruckus. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity character of the malt doing a bang-up job of moderating the otherwise runaway train sweetness.
Overall, this is a very pleasant and engaging old English stock ale (as they refer to it on the label, though I don't think I've ever had such a thing), rather than what you might be expecting in terms of a Winter Warmer. Yes, don't go looking for spices, but the warming capability here is strong, in that the 6.7 points of the ol' sauce are not noticeable in the least. Good stuff - looking forward to more of it!
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Terminus Series #1 - brewed in collaboration with Steel & Oak Brewing. This is a dark, malt-sweet ale brewed with molasses, dark brown sugar, and a bit of rye for spice. This is an extremely pleasant beverage for a cold winter's eve. The label and my inside sources indicate that this is the first in a series of collaborative brews between Blindman and British Columbia breweries. It is a grand time to love beer in central Alberta!
Dec 18, 2016
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