This pours a reddish-copper color and slightly cloudy. The aroma and taste are unlike any beer I have ever had. This beer is truly unique. It tastes like a liquer with the mouthfeel of a beer. It tastes a bit like sloe gin. It has a lot of spice and fruit, a bit like pomegranate with a hint of allspice and cloves. The bottle gives a good description as well: "Ale Mary is bottle-conditioned by Wessex Craft Brewers. The ale, therefore, contains live yeast and matures naturally in the bottle, producing the sparkle and complexity of a cask conditioned ale. A dark, rich spicy bottle-conditioned ale, resonant with Christmas seasonal flavours and designed to take the chill off the coolest winter night. Ale Mary has a warm and sweet aroma of cloves, coriander and ginger. The palate provides touches of rum, raisins and sultanas with a dry fruity finish."
Winner of a CAMRA gold medal in 2001 (google it).
I pride myself on my vocabulary, but could not tell you off the top of my head what "sultana" means. According to Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition (1962) (I lazily and by chance, and not actively, collect dictionaries) it is a small, white, seedless grape used for raisins and in wine-making.
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