Our Tastes-- Yazoo Wassail

Ending the last of the big Nashville trip brews, we try Wassail, Linus's latest seasonal offer through the tap room. Wassail defined as "liquor for drinking and wishing health to others on festive occasions, esp. spiced ale, as on Christmas Eve and Twelfth-night." This beer pours a med/dark clear brown with macro bubbles. Aroma is more malt and spice than hops. When tasting the carbonation almost put an unpleasant feeling in your mouth, like pop-rocks. The taste is bland to begin with for such a colored beer then the spices slowly jump around on the taste buds. Not sure what spices were used but this is much like my Reindeer (Batch #7), that was my first attempt at my own recipe so to speak. There is definitely cinnamon, maybe a clover, but nutmeg for sure at the end. The mouthfeel is almost vanilla cookie. Overall, a good beer, not my fav of the trip but worth buying a growler.