Crap, I typed up a review, and then I lost it. Well, here we go again. I'm reviewing Brooklyn's Winter Ale, seeing if this solid, but generally inexpensive brewery can save the genre. I paid $1.85 for a bottle, but I don't know the ABV.
The beer pours very red with little head. Taking a sniff, it doesn't smell very strongly. I detect a little red malt, and there might be a little bit of the cranberry in there like the Anchor. Let's hope it doesn't suck so much. Taking a sip, this beer is much more mild than the Anchor, even hollow by comparison. It doesn't have as much of a medicine flavor or anything bad going for it, really. There's just not much there. A mild malt, no hops, maybe the idea of something special, but not a whole lot. I'm going to award this beer [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img][img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I probably won't be buying it again, and it doesn't do much for my impression of winter ales so far, either.