Unintentional Ugly Christmas Sweater Winner
These days Après Ski for me is hot coffee and liniment, but back in the day we knew how to Après. However, this is no post alpine pint, I am just out and about in the little smoke, that being Sudbury, and it isn’t Saturday night. The home of stacks and Stack, so it only made sense to sample a Stack’s. As always I am checking out the draught selection for something different. I got something different alright. Perhaps the expression “pick your poison”* turned out to be a bit too literal in this case.
The barkeep draws this draught slow and steady, then spoons any excess foam off and voila, a perfectly poured Après Ski for me. A pour of copper from the land of nickel. This clear copper quaff is verging on amber, and of course I love me an amber. Where there is amber there is hope.
My first whiff of Jiff is a nose full of spices. Wow, a heaping helping of clove and cinnamon on the nose. Maybe Tommy Roe loved Cinnamon**, but as for me, I can take it or leave it and usually leave it. The taste is a “Wow” of the not good wow variety. Fizzy and very baking aisle (as opposed to jalapeno) spicy with a touch of amber. Definitely a winter ale, it tastes to me like a Saison that at one point thought about being an amber but gave up long ago. Stack tell us that this brew is spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, orange peel, and molasses. Brace yourself for baking spice overload.
This combination is like Après Ski in a cast, something here is broken. This brew is not for most, including me.
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