Pouring an opaque brown with a frothy head that lasts to the final sip, New Belgium’s Snow Day Winter Ale opens with a blast of earthy pine needle hops. Those resinous hops are overwhelmed by the roasted coffee and cocoa malts as you take your first sip. The aftertaste is slightly bitter, mixed with roasted wheat, almost like pumpernickel bread. If you look beyond the ubiquitous Fat Tire (which is ‘meh’ at best), New Belgium makes some nice beers, and this is one of them, nice, tasty, and just enough alcohol (6.5% ABV) to warm you on a cold winter night, 7/10.
Tilting Suds 
[…] Pouring an opaque brown with a frothy head that lasts to the final sip, New Belgium’s Snow Day Winter Ale opens with a blast of earthy pine needle hops. Those resinous hops are overwhelmed by the roasted coffee and cocoa malts as you take your (Read more…) […]
[…] The Fifth Day of Christmas GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_bg", "ffffff"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_text", "333333"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_link", "0066cc"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_border", "5581C0"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_url", "114477"); GA_googleAddAttr("LangId", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Autotag", "recipes"); GA_googleAddAttr("Autotag", "food"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "brewer-lost-coast-brewing"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "place-california"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "style-brown-ale"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "style-winterchristmas-beer"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "the-twelve-days-of-christmas"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "lost-coast-brewing"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "winterbraun"); GA_googleFillSlot("wpcom_sharethrough"); Share this:ShareFacebookDiggStumbleUponRedditEmailTwitterPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. […]
[…] The Fifth Day of Christmas […]
[…] The Fifth Day of Christmas […]