The Widmer Brothers Brewing company was founded in 1984 in Portland Oregon. They make a wide variety of quality American and European style beers. For my 11th beer of x-mas, I poured myself a glass for their winter warmer, Brrr.
Brrr Seasonal Ale pours a bright, luminescent orange. The beer is clear, and clean looking and has a nice rich frothy white head that covers the top of the beer like a dusting of snow on a cold winters day.
The beer has a lightly floral aroma of orange blossom.
When I tasted it I noticed it has an extremely rich and creamy mouth feel.
The booze is extremely well balanced. The beer itself rocks in at a heavy 7.2 per cent ABV but the heat does not come off AT ALL, and rather the rich creaminess comes off mellow and tame.
There is also a strong note of vanilla on the finish and a yeasty uncooked bread dough component to add character and complexity.
Over all I though this beer was very nice. It wasn't at all spicy dark like some winter warmers, but it was very rich, and scored very high on my balance and complexity meters. This wasn't the best Christmas beer I've tried, but I think it was hands down the best value beer thus far/best bang-for-your-buck-winter beer.
One more review to go!
-Prost!
D.Lux
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