SweetWater Festive Ale By Sweetwater Brewing - Atlanta, GA

  
SweetWater Festive Ale by Beer Advocate
Appearance: This festive ale is a beautifully colored beer, with ruby, cranberry hues in the light, transforms to a menacing black as soon as taken away. just about a full fingers worth of tan head, quickly dissipates.

Aroma: Not very potent, definitely mild accents of milk chocolate, maybe a little bit of nutmeg or cinnamon. Cannot discern a whole lot else individually. even though its not in your face, it is certainly pleasant.

Taste: This winter warmer ale tasty. Again none of the flavors that im getting are huge like some overly spiced winter beers, theyre just right. Nice maltiness, some of those well balanced spices of cinnamon and nutmeg, and a fruitiness that pulls ahead of the little bit of chocolate. this is probably one of the better winter beers ive had this year.

Mouthfeel: A decent hop presence plus the carbonatio level bring this one alive on the palate. This ale not overly heavy, and the spices stick to the top of your tongue.

Drinkability: Enjoying this one all the way through. goes down so easily on this cold snowy winter night.