A dry Northern English style ale with strong notes of molasses spice, caramel, chocolate, and coffee with a complex earthy hop note lingering.
Ingredients: Marris Otter, Chocolate Malt, Coffee Malt, Caramel Malt, Molasses, English Hops
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This is a tasty Winter Ale to snuggle up to, released for the winter months when snow blankets the terrain of the mind and the body craves warmth and, let’s be honest, it’s dark and wet most of the time so your beer better be damn good. Winter Ale is dark like the weather with roast chocolate and warm malt flavors balanced by noble hop aroma and subtle hoppy spice.
Ingredients: 2-Row Pale, Munich, C-120, Chocolate, Carafa 2, and Roast Barley with Columbus, Willamette, and US Goldings hops
8% ABV | 45 IBU
Our full-bodied winter ale uses an intricate blend of malts with a generous Tettnang and Cascade dry-hop to produce a well-balanced, rich seasonal ale with hints of roast and chocolate. Whether your slippery slope is a mountain or a sidewalk, this ale makes an excellent companion.
Ingredients: GRAINS: 2 ROW, WHEAT, CRYSTAL, CHOCOLATE WHEAT, HONEY
HOPS: CASCADE, TETTNANG
6.4% ABV | 30 IBU
A strong winter warmer with a complex malt and hop profile. Notice a considerable malt sweetness and big aromas of spice and molasses.
Malt: Silo 2-Row, PNW Munich, C-60, Special B, Biscuit, and Roasted Barley
Hops: Columbus, Centennial, Willamette, and Cascade
7.9% ABV | - IBU
Gale Force is the 2022 BC Beer Award Gold Medal Award Winner in the Strong Ale & Lager category. Traditionally made from the first runnings of a mild recipe (in this case, Main St.'s Tunnerman’s Dark Mild Ale from 2020) Gale Force was built on a rich, almost barleywine-like base that underwent an extended boil to add to its depth of sweetness, and a secondary fermentation with a traditional English brettanomyces that imparted a subtle tropical fruit character without detracting from the array of English malts used in the brewing process.
9.4% ABV | 23 IBU
Ingredients: HOPS: Phoenix YEAST: Denny's 50 and historical British Brettanomyces (Brett Clauseneii) MALT BILL: Paul's Maris Otter, Skagit Valley Pilot Pale, Les Maltiers Munich Light and Weyermann's Chocolate Wheat
Blended with cold brewed coffee from Maniac Coffee Roasting, this version of Kitten Mittens is sassy, fun, and unabashedly delicious. The Mexican coffee roast that was used boasts notes of raisin, cinnamon, and toasted nuts, which blends beautifully with the complex malt profile of Kitten Mittens. A warming dark ale, Coffee Kitten Mittens will keep you company on the darkest and chilliest of winter nights.
8% ABV | 30 IBU
Ingredients: MALT: 2-Row, Munich, Golden Naked Oats, Crystal Malt, Chocolate Malt, Brown Malt, Roasted Barley
HOPS: Apollo, Willamette
ADJUNCTS: Cold brewed, dark roasted mexican coffee from Maniac Coffee
