Beers that get better with age. - Will S.
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Brewery's Description: Gulden Draak is a dark brown Triple Ale, which makes it an exception among the Belgian Triples. The second fermentation offers the nice creamy head, the full body and all the vitamins of the centur... full description
Brewery's Description: This is a sweet beer with a pleasant flavour of hops. Indeed, for Bush de Noel, the brewer uses a traditional process which consists in placing hops flowers in the vats where the beer rests for fou... full description
Brewery's Description: This malty, full-bodied red ale was made with traditional mulling spices: Ginger, Clove, All Spice, Cinnamon & Nutmeg. If this one doesn't get you into the Christmas spirit, you truly are a Scr... full description
Brewery's Description: This brew's popularity made it difficult to restrict its availability to the Festive Season. Fortunately the high alcohol level enables us to brew enough to last most of the year so enthusiasts can... full description
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Brewery's Description: The top product from the Rochefort Trappist brewery. Dark color, full and very impressive taste. Strong plum, raisin, and black currant palate, with ascending notes of vinousness and other complexi... full description
Brewery's Description: A beautiful bold barley wine. Massive malt and hop notes. Silver Medal winner at the 2000 Great American Beer Festival in the Barley Wine category. Gold Medal winner at the 2002 World Beer Champion... full description
Brewery's Description: The Stone 08.08.08 Vertical Epic Ale is a Strong Golden Belgian style ale highly hopped with American hops (Ahtanum, Amarillo and Simcoe). The beer pours pale golden with a thick and creamy white h... full description
Brewery's Description: "I really wanted to do something special for our 1000th batch at the original brewpub. Goose Island could have thrown a party. But we did something better. We brewed a beer. A really big batch... full description
Brewery's Description: A classic barley wine, a style originally brewed by the butlers to the English and American aristocracy. It is brewed from three mashes of heirloom British malt and spiced with aromatic American Wi... full description
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Brewery's Description: Aging in oak barrels for 6 months gives this beer an uncommon smoothness and richness. full description
Brewery's Description: The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas with ginger being a prominent one. The full body is matched with complex dry and spicy flavors that pr... full description
Brewery's Description: Horny Devil (formerly known as Belgian Strong Ale) is inspired by the curious beers produced by Trappist monks in monasteries across Belgium. The beer's dryness and strength are the result of a uni... full description
Brewery's Description: The once strongest beer in the world is back ! Brewed only once a year on December 6. Samichlaus is aged for 10 months before bottling. This beer is perhaps the rarest in the world. Samichlaus may ... full description
Brewery's Description: Gold Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival (Ales: Brown, Bitter and Pale 1987, Barleywine 1988,1992,1995). Sierra Nevada Bigfoot is an award winning example of the English Barley Wine style. I... full description
Brewery's Description: Of dark almost black chocolate color. Nose: musky, slightly sweet and spicy, Lots of chocolate , coffee and some hazelnut notes on the palate intermingling with notes of licorice. Very lively on th... full description
Brewery's Description: Interlude- somewhere between the leap and the landing. It’s a jazz solo, the riffing, the unexpected improvisation. Rooted in a Belgian theme, Interlude soars from a second fermentation with our ow... full description
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Brewery's Description: Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve w... full description
Brewery's Description: Grottenbier Flemish Ale is a unique ale produced by one of the great Flanders breweries. Pale golden in color with a white, dense foam and a flavor that is soft, creamy and slightly herbal. Aging w... full description
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Brewery's Description: Every year on the 24th of February, the birthday of "Charles the fifth", the Brewery brews the Gouden Carolus "Cuvee of the Emperor" in a limited quantity and with an eye on the... full description
Brewery's Description: Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers brewed for Christmas. It has the highest density of any Belgian beer (27ðPl), has been boiling for 5 hours, brewed with pale... full description
Brewery's Description: Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve w... full description
Brewery's Description: This full-bodied vintage is brewed with Fuggles and Super Styrian hops that create a tapestry of rich, spicy flavours. Orange, citrus and fruitcake notes are all present, and are balanced well with... full description
Brewery's Description: The once strongest beer in the world is back ! Brewed only once a year on December 6. Samichlaus is aged for 10 months before bottling. This beer is perhaps the rarest in the world. Samichlaus may ... full description
Brewery's Description: Brooklyn Monster Ale is a classic barley wine, a style of ale originally brewed by the butlers to the English and American aristocracy. It is brewed from three mashes of heirloom British malt and s... full description
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Brewery's Description: Every year on the 24th of February, the birthday of "Charles the fifth", the Brewery brews the Gouden Carolus "Cuvee of the Emperor" in a limited quantity and with an eye on the... full description
Brewery's Description: The lower gravity cousin to Rochefort 10. full description
Brewery's Description: The beer Trappistes Rochefort 6 starts from a density of 16,50 Plato to have a volume of alcohol of 7,5%. Its fine flavour makes it delicate to the palate! Oldest, brewed in a very empirical way un... full description
Brewery's Description: Filtered, pasteurised and artificially carbonated. Only available in bottles. Each year the label has a different picture. Ingredients: Water, malted barley, yeast, hops, seaweed finings, carbon ... full description
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Brewery's Description: Enjoy in a snifter. Overripe fruit, vinous, vanilla, roasted grain and coffee are a few of the characters you will taste with this monster. The hops fade away as the flavors of the elderberries and... full description
Brewery's Description: Ripe fruit, figs and chewy malt are a few of the flavors you will encounter in this beer. There is an underlying roastiness and caramel sweetness that comes through toward the end. Hops play a back... full description
Brewery's Description: Too extreme to be called beer? Brewed to a colossal 45ðP, boiled for a full 2 hours while being continually hopped with high alpha American hops, dry-hopped every day in the fermenter for a mont... full description
Brewery's Description: A refreshing neo-Berliner Weisse fermented with peaches. Food Pairing recommendations: Grilled chicken or fish, salad. Glassware recommendation: Pint Wine comparable: Pinot Grigio full description
Brewery's Description: Raison D'Extra is our amped up version of the Raison D'Etre. It is brewed from a similar grist (raisins included) to a massive 42P, giving it 20.5%ABV, along with 20 IBU and a color of 20L. full description
Brewery's Description: This listing encompasses the November, 2003 release for the U.K. and parts of Southern California only (21% abv), and may state "21% abv" on the label, while the printed phrase "Vim ... full description
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Brewery's Description: Filtered, pasteurised and artificially carbonated. Only available in bottles. Each year the label has a different picture. Ingredients: Water, malted barley, yeast, hops, seaweed finings, carbon ... full description
Brewery's Description: A fully fermented beer with a full flavor - not surprisingly strong, but with a gentle but sharp bouquet. full description
Brewery's Description: It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in the mouth, and a dry, even tart fruity finish with hints of raisins and apple. The slow work of the yeast in the bo... full description
Brewery's Description: Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve w... full description
Brewery's Description: This is our special ale from the brewers at Anchor. It is sold only from early November to mid-January. The Ale’s recipe is different every year, but the intent with which we offer it remains the s... full description
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Brewery's Description: A classic, specially selected single batch of lambic, aged three years in the cask. The only unblended real lambic you can find anywhere. full description
Brewery's Description: Gold Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival (Ales: Brown, Bitter and Pale 1987, Barleywine 1988,1992,1995). Sierra Nevada Bigfoot is an award winning example of the English Barley Wine style. I... full description
Brewery's Description: Bottle Conditioned. Also limited availability in the Cask. Fuggles hops, floor malted Optic malt. full description
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Brewery's Description: Behold the stunning crimson hues through the inky blackness. Inhale the noble Hallertau hops, spicy and floral. Savor the flavors redolent of English toffee, rich mocha, sweet molasses, candied cur... full description
Brewery's Description: Aroma initially characterized by pepper that fight in a field ruled by a rich fruity fragrance of dried fruits with ripen banana, toffee and a soft sweet chocolate fragrance. The attentive taster s... full description
Brewery's Description: The once strongest beer in the world is back ! Brewed only once a year on December 6. Samichlaus is aged for 10 months before bottling. This beer is perhaps the rarest in the world. Samichlaus may ... full description
Brewery's Description: Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers brewed for Christmas. It has the highest density of any Belgian beer (27ðPl), has been boiling for 5 hours, brewed with pale... full description
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Brewery's Description: The Gueuze Lou Pepe is made with two years old lambic beers with a mellow taste, often coming from barrels in which only wine has been kept before. In July, the same kind of beer is used to make t... full description
Brewery's Description: This is the famous Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, our award-winning rendition of the Imperial Stout style once made exclusively for Catherine the Great. We use three mashes to brew each batch of t... full description
Brewery's Description: Deep burgundy color with a big, fluffy head. Complex fruit aromas with a layered sweetness (honey, then caramel, then toffee) with a hint of licorice and chocolate. A big, rich, abbey-style ale tha... full description
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Brewery's Description: Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve w... full description
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Brewery's Description: The Lou Pepe Gueuze is a blend of three different 2-year-old lambics. The standard Cantillon Gueuze is a blend of 1,2, and 3-year-olds. The inclusion of the younger lambic (which still has some unf... full description
Brewery's Description: Full bodied beer with sweet wheat flavor and beautiful dense foam top. It has a pleasant bitterness and unique spicy aroma with Orange Peel, Coriander, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Vanilla Beans. Complex ... full description
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Brewery's Description: 95,000 bottles were produced for 2004's Vintage, which once again employed a traditional approach, this time brewed with Goldings hops and Maris Otter malt. Distinctive cherry notes are evident, be... full description
Brewery's Description: Our Barleywine is rich and malty, with hints of fruity esters and a well-hopped finish. Enjoy this hearty ale with fresh fruit and ripe cheese on a cold winter’s night, or lay it up and savor it wi... full description
Brewery's Description: Chambly Noire has an opaque black color with beige-colored foam. Its roasted malt character is complemented by spicy, mildly smoky notes and a surprisingly clean, dry finish. full description
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Brewery's Description: A golden hue sets off the wonderful almost champagne like taste. full description
Brewery's Description: The top product from the Rochefort Trappist brewery. Dark color, full and very impressive taste. Strong plum, raisin, and black currant palate, with ascending notes of vinousness and other complexi... full description
Brewery's Description: The lower gravity cousin to Rochefort 10. full description
Brewery's Description: A fully fermented beer with a full flavor - not surprisingly strong, but with a gentle but sharp bouquet. full description
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Brewery's Description: Brewed with Barley malt, wheat malt, vienna malt, and caramalt; Hallertauer, and Kent Goldings hops; Dark candy sugar, and White candy sugar; and Coriander, and Grain de Paradise. Finally it is age... full description
Brewery's Description: A dark and heavy ale - the strongest that the brewery has ever produced - in which three varieties of malt and two spices are utilised. It is brewed "in honour of" the Burgundian Babble B... full description
Brewery's Description: Quelque Chose is strong cherry ale that is to be drunk hot! "Quelque Chose" is a popular French-Canadian expression that is used like "that's something" full description
Brewery's Description: Enchanting and enlightening, this golden, frothy ale boasts an intriguing herbal aroma, warming alcohol esters on the tongue and light, but firm body to finish. Exotic spices add subtle notes to bo... full description
Brewery's Description: Sensual splendor in the form of a Belgian inspired ale of vast appeal. Wonderfully aromatic in its seduction of the senses. So simple in its creation, so magnificent in its maturity, this wonderful... full description
Brewery's Description: This is the famous Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, our award-winning rendition of the Imperial Stout style once made exclusively for Catherine the Great. We use three mashes to brew each batch of t... full description
Brewery's Description: Bottle Conditioned. Ingredients: Maris Otter and minute amounts of black malt; Fuggles, Goldings and Challenger. It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in... full description
Brewery's Description: This fully fermented ale has been brewed by JW Lees as a celebration of the brewers' art. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a fine wine for enjoyment to come. full description
Brewery's Description: Matured in wooden casks of Lagavulin Malt Whiskey, one of the most distinctive malt whisky from the island of Islay, characterized by the strong peaty notes which should blend with the Harvest Ale ... full description
Brewery's Description: Dark ruby, glistening mysteriously, streaked with fine, top-fermented yeast, this beer has a compact, stable and long-lasting head. It has an intensive, typically top-fermented clove-like aroma. Th... full description
Brewery's Description: A dark brown, fruity, lightly hoppy, sparkling, strong beer and is not pasteurized. full description
Brewery's Description: To create Utopias, the brewers at Sam Adams used traditional brewing ingredients including all four types of Noble hops, which add a slightly earthy, herbal taste. The spiciness of the hops really ... full description
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Brewery's Description: Boskeun is the nickname of Jo, one of the two brothers who preferred to brew blond beer at home. It is a special Easter beer, one of the first real Belgian Easter beers. (Slaghmuylder's paasbier be... full description
Brewery's Description: Deserving the title "Emperor of Ales" (unlike the bourgeois "King of Beers"), Imperial is the strongest and fullest of all stouts. Imperials originally were brewed with large qu... full description
Brewery's Description: Like a fine port, Old Stock Ale is intended to be laid down. With an original gravity of over 1.100 and a generous hopping rate, Old Stock Ale is well-designed to round-out and mellow with age. It'... full description
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Brewery's Description: It was created in 1933 by Alfred Dubuisson, grand-father of the present family brewer, Hugues. Its former name was "Bush Beer 24ð" (the density in Ballings), but today it is known as B... full description
Brewery's Description: For the Christmas and New Year festivities the Gouden Carolus range is now extended to include this seriously heavy strong brown ale. Het Anker are thus rekindling a long lost tradition from the da... full description
Brewery's Description: Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers brewed for Christmas. It has the highest density of any Belgian beer (27ðPl), has been boiling for 5 hours, brewed with pale... full description
Brewery's Description: Of dark almost black chocolate color. Nose: musky, slightly sweet and spicy, Lots of chocolate , coffee and some hazelnut notes on the palate intermingling with notes of licorice. Very lively on th... full description
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Brewery's Description: This is their fall specialty which has a hazy amber color and a concentrated malt and lactic aced aroma. The use of Belgian brewing sugar is noticeable with definite notes of cider and lactic-malt.... full description
Brewery's Description: The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas with ginger being a prominent one. The full body is matched with complex dry and spicy flavors that pr... full description
Brewery's Description: A superb, rich, full-bodied beer derived from a 1970s homebrewing recipe. Wickedly smooth chocolate dominates the flavour, which is nicely balanced by the bitterness of the hops. full description
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Brewery's Description: A classic barley wine, a style originally brewed by the butlers to the English and American aristocracy. It is brewed from three mashes of heirloom British malt and spiced with aromatic American Wi... full description
Brewery's Description: Dark ruby, glistening mysteriously, streaked with fine, top-fermented yeast, this beer has a compact, stable and long-lasting head. It has an intensive, typically top-fermented clove-like aroma. Th... full description
Brewery's Description: The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas with ginger being a prominent one. The full body is matched with complex dry and spicy flavors that pr... full description
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Brewery's Description: Each bottle of Prize Old Ale is cork-finished, sealed, and numbered. Prize Old Ale is unfiltered and unpasteurized. It is brewed from floor malted Maris Otter and minute amounts of black malt. Hops... full description
Brewery's Description: A strong, full-bodied Belgian Abbey-style beer. The traditional yeast strain that is used imparts a rich array of spicy and fruit-like flavors. The prominent clove and melon notes are complemented ... full description
Brewery's Description: Our version of the English classic; Stoudt's India Pale Ale has a rich amber color, a complex malty flavor, and an assertive hop character. This special ale is bottle conditioned and should continu... full description
Brewery's Description: This brews popularity made it difficult to restrict it to being available for only a limited period. Fortunately the high alcohol level enables us to brew enough to last most of the year. This ensu... full description
Brewery's Description: Sinebrychoff Porter is a dark unfiltered beer manufactured by using top fermentation. Munich malts and plenty of hops impart a strong flavour to the beer. full description
Brewery's Description: The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas with ginger being a prominent one. The full body is matched with complex dry and spicy flavors that pr... full description
Brewery's Description: A.Le Coq Special Stout is a classical stout beer that has been fermented in the most ancient way ââ¬â surface fermentation. This is the first stout beer that has been brewed in Estonia, and its... full description
Brewery's Description: Millennium was brewed during Gales 150th Anniversary year of 1997 on the occasion of our first Royal visit. Matured over 18 months, and ready to savour now, this ale will further mature in bottle i... full description
Brewery's Description: Gold Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival (Ales: Brown, Bitter and Pale 1987, Barleywine 1988,1992,1995). Sierra Nevada Bigfoot is an award winning example of the English Barley Wine style. I... full description
Brewery's Description: Dark ruby, glistening mysteriously, streaked with fine, top-fermented yeast, this beer has a compact, stable and long-lasting head. It has an intensive, typically top-fermented clove-like aroma. Th... full description
Brewery's Description: Usually only available bottle conditioned as Imperial Extra Double Stout. Has occasionally appeared on cask as Harveys Imperial Russian Stout. Also known as A le Coq Imperial Stout - bottle only. ... full description
Brewery's Description: An unfiltered and unrefined Barleywine. Intense, robust, malty and dark. The cognac of beers. A huge beer in a little bottle, this is a beer designed for sipping. Old Crustacean is brewed with eigh... full description
Brewery's Description: This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by J.W. Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years t... full description
Brewery's Description: The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas with ginger being a prominent one. The full body is matched with complex dry and spicy flavors that pr... full description
Brewery's Description: It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in the mouth, and a dry, even tart fruity finish with hints of raisins and apple. The slow work of the yeast in the bo... full description
Brewery's Description: Chimay Bleue is principally distinguished by its character of a strong beer. This is a beer whose fragrance of fresh yeast with a light, flowery rosy touch is especially pleasant. Its flavour, noti... full description
Brewery's Description: An unfiltered and unrefined Barleywine. Intense, robust, malty and dark. The cognac of beers. A huge beer in a little bottle, this is a beer designed for sipping. Old Crustacean is brewed with eigh... full description
Brewery's Description: This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by J.W. Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years t... full description
Brewery's Description: As with all Gueuzes, Hanssens is a mixture of several vintages to produce a lambic which is refreshingly fruity. This is the result of blending different lambics of different ages. The second fer... full description
Brewery's Description: Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve w... full description
Brewery's Description: Sinebrychoff Porter is a dark unfiltered beer manufactured by using top fermentation. Munich malts and plenty of hops impart a strong flavour to the beer. full description
Brewery's Description: An unfiltered and unrefined Barleywine. Intense, robust, malty and dark. The cognac of beers. A huge beer in a little bottle, this is a beer designed for sipping. Old Crustacean is brewed with eigh... full description
Brewery's Description: Our Special Ale, a dark, rich, heavily spiced ale with a recipe that changes with each passing year. - The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas... full description
Brewery's Description: This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by J.W. Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years t... full description
Brewery's Description: Available in the Netherlands as Tarwebok, and in the USA as Special Dark. Ingredients: Water, barley, wheat and hops. "Traditionally brewed and drunk in autumn, this aromatic, strong beer ha... full description
Brewery's Description: It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in the mouth, and a dry, even tart fruity finish with hints of raisins and apple. The slow work of the yeast in the bo... full description
Brewery's Description: This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by J.W. Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years t... full description
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Brewery's Description: Bottle Conditioned. Ingredients: Maris Otter and minute amounts of black malt; Fuggles, Goldings and Challenger. It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in... full description
Brewery's Description: Artisanal saison flavoured with six spices: ginger, pepper, lichen, orange peel, curacao, star anise. full description
Brewery's Description: The enticing ruby color is topped by a dark creamy head that emits both malty and spicy aromas with ginger being a prominent one. The full body is matched with complex dry and spicy flavors that pr... full description
Brewery's Description: Triple Bock is complex, elegant, and has the depth and complexity of a fine cognac, vintage port or an old sherry. Non-carbonated, ruby-black, and very special, Triple Bock should be sipped from a ... full description
Brewery's Description: Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve w... full description
Brewery's Description: Infinitely complex in aroma and flavor with notes of maltiness and tartness throughout. An unsurpassed old brown with the richness and complexity of a vintage wine. full description
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Brewery's Description: This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by J.W. Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years t... full description
