Father John's Winter Ale
1L resealable bottle, with lots of descriptive text on the brewery's history and methodologies. This beer pours a clear medium golden amber colour, with lots of creamy, puffy off-white head, which leaves some decent curtain lace around the glass as it slowly melts away. The aroma is of gingerbread - cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and bready malt. The taste is more malty - lightly roasted caramel, some nuttiness, earthy fruit sugars, and a decent wallop of booze warming. The carbonation is mild, the body nice and full and smooth, not cloying, and it finishes a bit off-dry, the malt and spices holding sway. Despite the noticeable alcohol, this is lovely sipper for the coming seasonal onslaught.