Goose Island Sixth Day
Every year to celebrate the holiday season, we brew up our Sixth Day, and with each year we change the recipe slightly so that you have something special to look forward to.
3.4
218 reviews
Chicago, United States
Community reviews
Brown with a slight hint of red. This is sort of a strong brown ale with a hint of cranberry. Decent stuff. But where this one really shines is in the price. I got a case at costco for something like $23. 8% beer for a buck a bottle? And brewed at Chicago Goose. Sign me up.
A clear dark ruby-red pour, topped by a mostly diminishing sand-colored head. Refined sweet nutty malts hit the nose at first. Then some fine tones of dark dried fruits, toffee, hops, and English licorice. Medium full. Light sparkling mouthfeel. Taste is sourish-sweet, with nutty malts, mild roast, dark dried fruits and some coffee tones. Good balancing bitterness with soil and citrus. Finishes on the lighter sweet malty side, along with a lingering bitterness. A pretty good one. [From a 12 fl oz bottle]
Reddish-brown pour with tan head. Aroma is roasted malt. Taste is roasted malt, spice. Nice lacing. Alcohol isn’t noticeable.
12oz bottle pours a lightly hazy, copper amber with some creamy white head. Nose has a lot of toffee, raisin, malt, mild spice, orange, yeast, a little booze. Flavor is the same, toffee, raisin, mild bread, orange, spice, a bit of Belgian yeast. Clean finish. Messy.
Dark cloudy brown tight tan head. Aroma of soy, malt, alcohol, raisins. Tastes of prunes, whole wheat toast, nutmeg. There’s a bitter finish that may come from the hops or spices it’s hard to tell. Creamy slightly sticky palate. I liked it! Better than any other goose island I’ve had.
I guess this is Goose Island’s take on something like Anchor Our Special Ale. It pours a red brown color w/ a ring of fine-bubbled head. This smells of plums and gingerbread. This is a full bodied beer w/ a thick, sticky malt presence that drinks much bigger than even it’s fairly high, over eight percent alcohol level. Ordinarily, a beer this sweet, I’d just hate but it works here because the sweetness seems to be there w/ the purpose of emphasizing the malt character and adding body to lend the beer to slow sipping. There’s really a lot going on when you take time to examine it too: tons of different aspects to the fruit, firm and herbal hop bitterness and very noticeable but not overbearing spice presence. I do not think this is one I’d want to drink a six pack of but a tall glass of it goes down pretty well for such a thick brew.
Bottle. Deep, dark red color ... thin but thickly built head of rich, off-tan foam. The aroma is actually fairly restrained ... a bit of caramel malt is all that it hints at. But this drinks with a rich, sugary swill ... brown sugar, biscuit, malt, sweet corn syrup. Rich and thick. A sipper at best. (#5480, 4/5/2014)
Quite a stunning looking beer. Dark auburn/orange, very murky, nice clean lacing pattern. Nose is malt dominated with nuttiness, caramel and fruit. Palate is malty and sweet, barley-ish, a bit of bubblegum, a bit of alcohol to balance the sweetness. Thick mouthfeel. Nice.
Nice beer for cold temperatures. Nice caramel sweetness with lots of alcohol. I don’t mind alcohol presence;this was a good beer for me!
Bottle from KNB NC: Poured a muddy brown liquid that was completely opaque while a short lived fizzy foam cap quickly retreated. Aroma smells of an old gloopy malt mess( I am drinking this late winter/early spring), but does have some scents still hanging around that hint as to how this will taste. The drink delivers what my nose detected with rich sweet deep caramel malts that swerve up well considering the long term shelf-life, but the cool fridges at Keg-N-Bottle has done them well.
12oz Bottle to pint.glass. Deep brown pour with a small beige head. Aroma had a slight molasses hint. Taste was a bit sweeter than I thought but was a nice beer
Bottle: Poured a chalky floaty filled brown with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet stick malt and dark fruit. Taste is dark fruit with prunes, dates, molasses, and candy malts.
Bottle. Cloudy red brown. Little head. Dark fruit yeast aroma. Malt and yeast, with caramel notes and some sour. I expected a more traditional brown ale ,but tasted similar to a red Belgian for me...even if not as good. Better than I had hoped.
NIce and interesting. Not so strong not too bitter either. NIe to drink at home with a nice meal aside.
Pours a muddy brown with a light tan head and aroma of toffee and caramel. Taste is similar, lots of toffee, caramel, spices, and fruits with a toffee, spiced finish. Nice christmas style sale
Bottle. Pours a dark mahogany brown color with a small java head. Nose is caramel, toffee and malty. Taste is full of caramel, toffee, and sweet malt, with a touch of alcohol. Finish is sweet and malty, and ends on sweet candy notes. Quaff Score 8 / 10
Poured hazy red-brown with a 2-finger bone-colored head. Candy-sweet aroma with caramel and a light note of spice. Medium body with a light oily thickness. Nutty and caramelly flavor up front with a piney hop note beneath. Some spices and a buttery leather note in the finish.
bottle. Brown with small head. Unique flavor with malt, sugar and spice. No nuttiness like many browns. Light booze, but otherwise very smooth.
Great brown caramel color. Thin head, excellent retention. Mild smell and flavor. Mid palate. Clean and smooth, but nothing special.
Leftover phone rates from Hilton Head. Pours dark mahogany with thinner light tan head. Comes of big sweet malty, caramel. Smooth, old ale type body. Taste has a nice subtle spice throughout, with big caramel sweet malt backbone. Quite the solid holiday sipper.
Bottle: A heavy caramel colored pour with better than a finger of creamy beige head. Odd spots of lacing and a slight cap throughout. Very faint aroma of floral and caramel, some spice. Taste of florals, chocolate, caramel, and spice. Good accent on the florals and it works well with the chocolate malt. Nice feel overall, a little too easy to drink at 8.3% to call a session, but that’s what I want to call it. Good session brew.
Bottle. Deep amber body. Frothy beige head, lasting. Malty aroma of caramel, toasted grain with a bit of roasted grain notes, nuts, spice, orange, citrus. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium to full body, watery turning velvety texture, lively carbonation. Taste of caramel, dark fruits, toasted grain. A bit sweet.
Bottled on date: 10SEP13. Consumed January 2, 2014. Reviewed from notes.
The appearance has a somewhat light brown colored body with a one finger white foamy head that left some nice adequate lacing clinging nicely in rings around the glass.
The smell is nutty with some bready maltiness.
The taste is sweet through a combination of nuts, bready malts and cinnamon. There is a sticky nutty aftertaste with a dry nutty finish.
On the palate, its about a medium in body but comes across somewhat sessionable and went well with New Year’s Day leftovers. Carbonation is good for the style and for me as there’s a decent amount of harshness hitting the tongue and mouth but it isn’t anything that degrades from a Christmas Brown Ale.
Overall, this is a good Brown Ale that I would have again next Christmas.
Poured from a bottle with a hazy brown color and a short lasting white foam head. Has a sweet caramel aroma. The flavor is a nice blend of sweet caramel and some malts. Has very little carbonation, but a nice medium body mouthfeel. Another solid offering from Goose Island.
Bottle. Pours a deep copper brown with dissipating tan head that leaves good lace. Aroma is nice caramel sweetness, hints of spice and citrus. Taste follows, sweet and malty, a bit of spice. Thicker mouth feel and a little bit of booziness, .
2/9/2014. 12 oz. bottle. Dark brown with a tan head. Aromas are malty and sweet. Spicy flavors with malt, sugars and bitter hops. Not bad.
12oz bottle. Bottled on 25sep13. Cloudy, light brown color. Oily pour. Aroma of old molasses, musty malts, Belgian yeast esters, raisins, dark dried fruits. Fruity esters flavor, dried dark fruit, musty essence. Finishes like a Quad. At 8% ABV, its pretty strong.(3962)
Bottle shared with Max, Andy, Zdk, Paul, Pearl and Clocks. Pours a clear amber copper body with light white lacing. Aroma is malt, some sugar maybe and light vague hop profile. Mouthfeel is medium with notes of malt, caramel, sugar, spice and light alcohol character.
From a bottle. Pours brown with a frothy tan head. Tastes like burnt toast and grains, possibly old spices. Very malty. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like roasted malt, burnt toast, and alcohol.
12 oz bottle from a friend The brown ale poured a clear deep amber color woth a thick tan head and no lacing. The aroma was of sweet caramel malt and cinnamon. The taste was complex with cinnamon, caramel malt and some nutmeg. The medium body ale had average carbonation. The finish ends just as it started with complex spicy notes.