ABV: 4.5%
Winter Eko comes from the Slottskallans Bryggeri (Swedish for Brewery) and is an organic black lager, which is an interesting take on a winter beer. The aroma has strong orange notes to it and a solid roasted coffee smell to back that up. The head was a light brown but disappeared quickly and the body is a deep brown colour with hints of red to it, look at it from the right angle and it looks black.
The taste of the beer starts with the smoothness that you expect from a lager but is quickly dominated by the coffee that I got so strongly in the aroma. Once it goes down the bitterness of the coffee flavour lingers in the back of the throat.
Rating: 3/5 – Interesting take on a lager, coffee flavour is is overpowering.
Ahhh overpowering coffee flavour…. sounds like maybe i shouldn’t have passed up on this one. Do you feel you would have rated it higher if you were more of a coffee drinker?
Probably not, I don’t mind coffee flavour in beer. I just thought it overwhelmed any other flavours in the beer, which is too bad because the aroma hinted at roasted and fruity flavours that would have been nice.