"Flavoured beer" Christmas - Wynchwood Brewery

Mood: first Christmas brew of the season! Impress me! 

Where to Buy: LCBO

Price: $3.40

Beer Type: Flavoured beer

Ingredients: water, malted barley, cinnamon flavour, yeast

Country: Oxfordshire England  

%: 5.0

ml: 500ml

Appearance: Ale colour, not quite a light, not quite an amber

Smell: malt and slight molasses

Taste: What a neutral ale! I was expecting cinnamon 101 since it's an ingredient, but no! It's a brown kinda tar tasting beer, not much cinnamon flavour but definitely a slight spice to it. 

Mouthfeel: starts off bubbly and turns creamy 

Finish: like a chlorinated pool (wtf??) with a hint of ale and a hint of spice, not much though, I need to breath in and out my nose in order to get a flavour!

Overall: great packaging, shitty beer. Nothing special about it and not worth the price tag either! Guess it's that price because it's imported :(

5/10

Prohibition Harvest Ale (Pumpkin Spice) - 5.50

Mood: wanted something fall-like

Where to Buy: BC liquor

Price: 5.50

Beer Type: Ale

Ingredients:

Country: Canada (Kelowna)

%: 5.5

ml: 650ml

Appearance: a darker ale look, looks like a pumpkin!

Smell: like cheap beer from undergrad (keggers)

Taste: not really sure, tastes like normal beer, but much more bitter, and I dont taste pumpkin or spice, unless that's the bitter taste....

Mouthfeel: 

Finished: bitter but wait... there it is!  I taste some pumpkin and some spice! score!

Overall: Not a fan.  It tastes cheap.  I know that wasn't the effect that it was going for, but seriously. Its super bitter in the mouth (not IPA hops bitter, just bitter beer bitter) and there is no pumpkin or spice to be had except for the lingering aftertaste.  Boo.

3/10