Alaskan Winter Ale:
Hello one and all and welcome back to our little skate across the frozen pond of winter beers and this time we go to a land that is known for it’s harsh winters: Alaska.  Yes today we venture up to the land that Jack London helped give a mythos to that has been unseen anywhere outside Texas.  So can a land that basically serves as a buffer from Russia brew a good beer? Let us drink up and find out.  Today’s beer is Alaskan Brewing’s Winter Ale which is basically an English Olde Ale that has the aroma of spruce tips.  How do I know this? Simple, the bottle tells me.  You actually think I know what spruce tree smells like?  Anyway, the beer pours a nice golden amber hue with a stark white head that leaves a decent amount of lacing and a nose that smells of caramelized malts and a car air-freshener (that’s what spruce smells like?!?).  The beers initial taste is very malty which isn’t a surprise seeing how it’s an English style ale while the mid-tongue adds an oddly unique and enjoyable slight citrus undertone to the malts and a back end and after taste that is a mix of bread and caramel flavors.  A good beer from Alaskan Brewery, which is a brewery that is raved about by multiple acquaintances and so far I can see myself enjoying more of this beer in the future.  Worth a spin if you’re interested but nothing ground breaking.