Winter beer for grown-ups
A winter beer needn’t taste “like something your grandmother would bake.”
A winter beer needn’t taste “like something your grandmother would bake,” said Ray Isle in FoodAndWine.com. Brewers with long experience in seasonal offerings know better, creating brews that aren’t gimmicky. They just taste right on a winter’s night.
Deschutes Jubelale The 25th-anniversary Jubelale from Oregon’s Deschutes is “alarmingly easy to drink.” It’s a “malty and spicy” English-style strong ale with great balance and “a low-key hop note.”
Innis & Gunn Winter Treacle Porter Created by a 10-year-old Scottish brewery, this unusual porter has “a distinct toffee-malt character,” plus “hints of vanilla.”
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Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale This popular California IPA is “a wake-you-up style of beer.” It’s “emphatically grapefruit/piney,” thanks to just-harvested hops used in the brewing.
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