Granville Island Lions Winter Ale
Combines premium malt with aromatic specialty hops. Brewed with our special yeast, this beer has a vanilla like finish. A robust ale. Pair it with holiday meals.
3.2
226 reviews
Vancouver, Canada
Community reviews
Une bière cuivrée et foncée et limpide. La mousse...ah?! Disparue. Un nez de caramel et de tarte au sucre. Un goût de dessert, de pouding au pain et d’essence de vanille. Il y a des saveurs minérales au travers ça. Une effervescence soutenue. Une bière correcte comme ça, mais sinon, ça manque de profondeur. Merci Mark. (2107-210217)
Draft. Pours a deep amber brown with no head. Aromas of absolute sweetness - brown sugar, subtle mint, caramel and toffee. Matching taste - cloying and overpowering through the finish. Way too much in this winter ale
Bouteille de 341ml. Une robe brune acajou foncée avec une mousse beige. Un nez et une bouche identiques avec du chocolat et du caramel sucré à la tonne. On dirait une ale qui est «passé date» où les malts ont tournés en caramel chocolaté avec de la vanille artificielle en prime. Trop sucré.
Canned. Clear red body, small even beige head. The aroma is metallic, hoppy and slightly sweet. The taste is bland and watery.
Pours dark amber with an off white head. Aroma is dark fruits, vanilla and malts. Sweet malts, carmel, toffee and vanilla flavours with a medium body and carbonation. A little sweet for me but not bad.
Orange amber. Big bubbly beige head that dissipates rather quickly, but leaves behind a lot of lace. The aroma is pleasantly adorned with notes of toffee, caramel, floral hops, and bread. The flavour pales however. Mostly sweet malts and grain with caramel. Sticky on the palate and it tends to thin out as it hits the back of the mouth. Not enough body or alcohol to be a winter offering.
Pours a pretty big creamy looking off white head. Has a dark amber/copper appearance. Nice dirty lacing. Mild sweet malts and floral hop aromas. Flavours are pretty sweet with some caramel and toffee coming through early with notes of vanilla on the back end. Really good taste, not really bitter at all. Medium carbonation, with a nice mouthcoating creamy mouthfeel. Very nice and smooth on the palate. Pretty good and easy to drink.
Pours an amber colour. Caramel in the aroma and in the taste. Touch of vanilla. A bit of nuts as well. Very enjoyable beer
Dark reddish brown body with a thin white head. Aroma of chocolate and sugar. Taste matches flavour with a smooth body and finish.
Red amber colour with beige head. Aroma of caramel. Taste is sweetvmalt en caramel fudge.
Pours a clear bright red color. Nose of toffee, caramel, vanilla, nuttiness. Taste is medium sweet but not overly. Kind of candyish and not a ton of hopiness but still not bad. Medium to light body, medium to light carbonation.
341ml bottle. Pours a clear red-amber with a medium, creamy, long lasting,
beige head that laces. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, vanilla and light spice. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, vanilla and light spice with a mildly dry, bitter finish. Light body with a creamy, smooth, syrupy texture and soft carbonation. Not bad.
Épaisse mousse couleur crème sur un breuvage cuivré aux reflets oranges. Le nez est de noix et de cacao. Texture mi-épaisse, liquide translucide. En bouche, beaucoup de chocolat et de vanille, ce qui est assez surprenant. Très bonbon, mais sa texture la rend presque désaltérante. Tout est dans les malts, et on doit reconnaître son originalité, mais c’est une bière qui ne plaira pas à tout le monde, et qui derrière le voile sucré n’est finalement pas grand-chose.
This beer is very full bodied and has a strong caramel sweetness. It's a very clear amber with medium carbonation. Quite sweet, not a lot if spice, but all around good xmas beer
Bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown with a nice tan head. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, and malt. Taste is chocolate, vanilla, malt, and spices. Nice and easy to drink.
Draft. Delightful, well finished beer. Slightly sweet, with prominent chocolate aroma and flavor. Delicious mixture of chocolate, vanilla, and cream flavors. No off odors or flavors. Unlike the current hit-or-miss trend of uber-high hops and ABV IPA’s, this one is extremely smooth and well finished. Clean finish.
can. Poured clear dark copper with a thin silky beige head. Sweet malt aroma with vanilla. Medium body, crisp carbonation with a oily mouthfeel. Toasted malt flavour, notes of vanilla and coffee, molasses, bitter herbal hops leave a resin finish.
Amber pour with a smaller head. Chocolate and vanilla prominent in the aroma and taste with not much else going on. Slightly bitter, medium body.
473ml can. Clear amber body, medium beige head with average retention and some lacing. Aroma of vanilla, caramel, condensed milk, Baileys. Taste is consistent with the aroma: caramel, condensed milk, vanilla. Some medicinal-metallic aftertaste. Disappointing.
355 ml can from a Granville Island winter sampler, served in a weissbier vase. Pours a light coppery shade with an off-white, short-lived head. Did not notice carbonation. Aroma bodes unwell with overwhelming vanilla over some hardly-identifiable malts; flavor is so cream soda-like and vanilla-dense it nauseated me close to spewing. Did not notice palate. This is a definite drainpour and a reminder to avoid any "winter ale" - see my review of Tree Brewing’s Vertical Winter Ale. Why would you want to oversaturate perfectly good beer with this "winter" flavoring nonsense? Ho ho oh hell no.
Has a strong chocolate overtone with vanilla accents. There is a bitterness to the drink that makes it work. Definitely a brew that makes winter bearable!
Une bière cuivrée et claire aux reflets rubis foncés qui est surmontée d’une mousse brunâtre mince se verse dans le verre. Les flaveurs de caramel, de vanille et de chocolat au lait semblent artificielles, autant au nez qu’en bouche. J’avais l’impression de boire une tarte au sucre liquide, mais cheap. Je serais aussi bien de boire une Vie de Château tant qu’à ça. Ouin. Non.
0.473 can. Clear, brown color and a large, fluffy, off-white head. Aroma of nuts, spices, brown cake, cream liquor, vanilla, and a hint of alcohol. Taste is sweet, spicy, caramel, vanilla, again baileys and a hint of alcohol. Medium body, creamy texture, and a flat carbonation. Finish is a tad too watery considering the beer’s creaminess. Overall a standard beer, pleasantly different and full of character but also a bit too artificial and not very drinkable.
Pours hazy brown with some off white head. A chocolate toffee aroma. The taste is sweet and rather boring.
Pours a clear dark amber topped by a finger of creamy tanned head showing average retention and leaving a few strings on the side of the glass. The nose is milk chocolate and pink peppercorns. The taste has milk chocolate with some roasted notes of hazelnuts through a light body with mild bitterness. The brew finishes dry and grainy with nutty undertones. Cheers!
Strong vanilla aroma
Ok i guess I do not like vanilla in my beer
Strong vanilla taste thin watery not that good really
On tap in Whistler Village. Pours like maple syrup and tastes almost the same. This is one of the sweetest beers I have tasted. Sort of reminds me of Rogue hazelnut brown, but x10 the sweetness. Notes also of vanilla. It’s decent for the style, but one is all I could drink.
A truly bizarre experience: the overwhelming impression is that of a vanilla-flavoured ice cream soda! The aftertaste of vanilla is simply overpowering.
pours unclear copper-mahogany with a small reviving light beige head showing some retention and lacing. fragrant sweet powdery chocolate mix, sweet maltiness, raspberries, light woodsy and earthy notes - light astringency, vanilla chocolate shake. light carbonation, light body - oily, sweetish and spicy-chocolatey finish. an artificial dessert.
On tap at Laughing Buddha, in Sudbury. Pours a dark cherry wood colour with thin off-white head. Aroma is vanilla, chocolate. Taste is same.