Steady Hand Winter Ale

Review Date 1/12/2024  By John Staradumsky

  Style: Saison   Brewery: Steady Hand   Country: USA   State: Georgia   $ Per OZ: N/A   ABV: 6.5%

Steady Hand Brewing has a winter ale! Or at least, they did in 2019. The beer is aptly named Steady Hand Winter Ale , and I bought a four-pack of it then. I drank my first can in early 2020. Just recently, here in January of 2024, I drank another from that same 4-pack, and I can tell you that the beer has held up quite well.

It does not look like Steady Hand makes this beer anymore, though of course perhaps they will again in the future. There is no listing for it on the brewery website, and a search for it on the Total Wine website came up empty handed rather than steady handed.

From the label:

The winter’s installation of our seasonal farmhouse is a Golden Farmhouse ale brewed with Meyer lemons and Colorado Blue Spruce tips. Bright and complex lemon and orange aromas give way to the earthy and fruity flavor of citrus and spice from the spruce and hops.

Steady Hand Winter Ale has an alcohol content of 6.5% by volume amd I have no idea what I paid for my four-pack of pint cans.

My tasting notes from 2020:

Steady Hand Winter Ale pours to a hazy blonde color with a thick foamy head and an appetizing nose of yeasty spice, a hint of spruce, and citrus. Taking a sip, the beer has a soft bready malt palate with yeasty spice (green peppercorns come to mind), bright citrusy lemon and in the finish earthy hops and a faint note of the spruce.

I was told there would be spruce, but here, I just did not get enough of it. That was true of the aged can I drank almost four years later. I will say the lemony citrus popped nicely while drinking the latter. While again I did not record the price I paid for this beer, I did note that it was for me a 3 ½ star effort, then take back another half star for the high price.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??