Wet July Day 17 and working through some of these Bridge Rd beers, I pick up the Posse Winter Ale, a seasonal beer brewed for members of the Bridge Rd Posse (a regular beer subscription service). This year the Winter Ale is a Smoked Brown Ale with the addition of locally sourced chestnuts.
It pours a dark brown colour that when held up to the light shows a light reddish tinge, the head a nice tan colour. The aroma is of dark roasted malts with an overlay of smoke. Flavour-wise, you get the smoke immediately (I am highly susceptible to smoke in beers though, so your mileage may vary), the darker roasted malts and sweeter caramel offsets the smoke a bit.
I’m not really a fan of smoked beers, though this one seems well in balance and I’m not entirely hating it. In saying that though I’m not reaching for another anytime soon. I’ll give this a 3, it probably deserves better, but I just can’t seem to give it more.
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