![]() ![]() Once again, this is a classic winter beer that tastes a little dated and may have shined ten years ago but doesn’t do much for me now.” - Neil Ferguson “Very hoppy and malty and the malt profile is off-putting. “This is just a straight up Northwest IPA from the 2010’s and will satisfy anyone who enjoys the semi-clear IPA style where a little crystal malt goes a long way with some orangey, weedy, slightly onion-garlic hop flavors and bitterness.” - Ezra Johnson-Greenough Then I re-tasted Jubelale, and Winter Solstice is just not in the same league. “My first impression was that it is like a sweeter, less hoppy Jubelale. The can says, “Natural Flavors Added,” and in 2021 that doesn’t cut it.” - Nicole Kasten “It’s a simple beer base with “winter,” spices. Overall this has a very weird flavor that brings to mind a vintage soda. “Tons of spices on the nose with almost no hops to be detected. ![]() I get sweet cherry, vanilla, cinnamon bark, and maybe some bitter nutmeg or allspice that give a light acrid earthiness to balance out the unmistakable Coca-Cola-like spices.” - Ezra Johnson-Greenough “I would describe this as a spiced amber ale that seems to take inspiration from soda pop. We then each scored the beers on a 1-10 scale, at the end we added up the scores to settle on a Top 10 beers and a best of show Top 5. You see those patterns repeated here, with a few outliers that try something different.įor this tasting review panel New School contributors Nicole Kasten, Don Sch, Neil Ferguson, Bill Night, and Ezra Johnson-Greenough each one by one drank through all 21 beers and wrote down our tasting notes to share. Because winter beers are not a single style of beer they often break down into three types: spiced, slightly strong/malty IPA, or dark and strong. But what if you pitted them against each other? The New School did just that, in a tasting review panel of 21 winter seasonals comprising both classics and new entries into the wide sub-category. Winter warmers, christmas beers, holiday ales…whatever you want to call them they are among the more distinctive seasonal categories that we look forward to each year. ![]()
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