Cigar City Brewing | Warmer Winter Winter Warmer | Old Ale Vintage 2009, enjoyed January 2010. Currently ranked the second best beer I’ve ever tried on www.ratebeer.com, where it’s classified as a barleywine. This is what I wrote at the time: Nice and dark and rich - looks like its name. Rich tan bubbly head descends to a ring that stays. Strawberries, vanilla and bourbon barrels, chocolate, floral notes, alcohol. First sip is silky, enveloping, substantial. Bitter, sweet, complex. Smell the hops more now. Quite sweet, a little sour, lemon, grassy. Some roasty toasty malts now. Lacing in small round patches of bubbles, surface still a swirl of clouds. Orange aromas now, and back to vanilla. This is one of the smoothest, velvetiest beers I’ve ever had.

Cigar City Brewing | Warmer Winter Winter Warmer | Old Ale

Vintage 2009, enjoyed January 2010. Currently ranked the second best beer I’ve ever tried on www.ratebeer.com, where it’s classified as a barleywine. This is what I wrote at the time:

Nice and dark and rich - looks like its name. Rich tan bubbly head descends to a ring that stays. Strawberries, vanilla and bourbon barrels, chocolate, floral notes, alcohol. First sip is silky, enveloping, substantial. Bitter, sweet, complex. Smell the hops more now. Quite sweet, a little sour, lemon, grassy. Some roasty toasty malts now. Lacing in small round patches of bubbles, surface still a swirl of clouds. Orange aromas now, and back to vanilla. This is one of the smoothest, velvetiest beers I’ve ever had.