33cl bottle from a trade with Taboada, many thanks! Pours almost clear reddish brown colour with a small beige head. Aroma of spices, cinnamon, clove, ginger. Taste of spices, ginger, cinnamon, cardamon, nice!

Deutlich gewürziger Malzantrunk. Angenehme und weitestgehend konstante Intensität, minimal herb. Die Kräuternoten bleiben prägend, etwas Anis, weich. Nett! 10/9/9/9/7/9

Aromas, honey with some spicy in there. Taste, honey with spicy finish. Palate, warm and dense.

Dark amber-brown with a small dark off white head. Aromas of herbs, caramel malts, spice and alcohol predominate. Some light fizzyness with a sweet slickness and a full body. Mainly sweet clogging and spicey with certain bitterness developing in a pretty unbalanced way. Lasting finish.

UPDATED: JAN 13, 2016 Re-rating (2015) - Review based on the BJCP2015 guidelines (style 30C - Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer). Bottle 33 cl - Batch 01-14. AROMA: spice aromas of cardamom and ginger, mixed with a sweet background and slight laquer notes. APPEARANCE: ambar color and hazy. initial large ivy head with very poor retention and poor lacing for the rated 8% abv. TASTE: flavour equal to the aromas (ginger) with very faint supportive malt flavours. sweet background. low bitterness with a semi-dry to dry finish. PALATE: medium to thin body with medium-high carbonation. some alcohol warmth noticeable. OVERALL: an unbalanced Christmas ale too much strong on the spices (ginger) which masks the base beer (no malt support). low body for a specialty beer.

Bottle 330ml.

[ Trade by andregoncalves ]. Clear medium to dark amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, spicy, light alcohol. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, spicy, sweet malt, sharp, malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20131011]

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, spicy and alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 111013

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are spices, herbs, caramel, malt and hops.

Bottle. Clear deep amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, dusty and spices. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, spices, medium sweet, dark fruit, little toffee and yeast.

330ml bottle. Courtesy of andregoncalves. Solvent aromas, some caramel and spicy ones. Pours hazy dark copper, with vanishing tan head, poor lacing. Medium body, oily, average carbonation. Taste is alcoholic, solvent, artificial, metalic, some caramel and spicy. Seems to have gone under fermentation problems.