Big Sky Biere de Noel

Brewed by Big Sky Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Missoula, Montana USA

750ml bottle. Hazy brown. Aroma of fruit and spice. A bready dubble. Cherries, nutmeg. This is a great Quad! Mellow. Nice wood aged presence.

bottle #281/1800.gold foil .. not sure what that means but it is from superdave70. Aroma of sweet molasas. Murky bron body with beige head. Flavor was abit odd with some caramel but a stong bitter bite on palate odd brew.

Also had a red foil topper from a bottle bought about 2 years ago or so. Had a smokey aroma with some chocolate notes. Odd colored body with beige head. Sweet caramel flavor with an alcohol grain bitter bite so that was all that was the same beteewn to two.

Superdave’s was better imo

Bottle from Julie Thanks! Dark brown with a foamy off white head. Floral caramel toffee molasses chocolate clove and huge nutmeg aroma and taste with vanilla notes. Excellent.

Bottle from Topps in Tempe. The pour was beautiful garnet-brown, very generous tannish to light brown colored head (foaming out of the bottle after the first pour and loud pop upon opening), good but somewhat spotty paterned lacing. The aroma was oak, vanilla, dark fruits. The flavor was bourbon (although the bottle doesn’t mention bourbon barrels), vanilla, oak (all of those a little too strong, but not typically overdone), plums, raisins, insignificant spicing. Finishes with a full body, slight yeast dryness also. Very nice brew.

Pours with a deep red brown body topped by a thin to medium thick head with a good amount of lacing. It’s slightly sweet and malty with a note of dark fruit, some vanilla/barrel notes and alcohol esters. Full bodied and warming.

750 mL bottle purchased at the Davis Food Co-Op. #62 of 1800. Aroma is weird. There is a light pepperiness with some sweet breadiness. Not overly aromatic or distinctive. Modestly hazy garnet-amber body with a frothy, large tan head. Somewhat sweet, caramel start. The middle of this is kinda boozy. Very metallic, swampy flavor to finish. Plenty of dry, woody flavors are also in there. Not a fan of this at all. Too many off flavors.

Bottle shared by Pailhead. Deep, murky, caramely red-brown body, thick cream head. Big brown sugar and caramel aroma with spice and a touch of sweaty socks. Plum and spice body, bready, with delicate, smooth sweetness. A plum pudding with lingering tangy notes. Sharp, prickly alcohol notes also present. A tasty beer with fair complexity. The lingering sweetness could have been closed a bit better, but this is very good nonetheless.

On tap at the 06 Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival. Deep amber color with a foamy light beige head. The nose was of dried fruit with toffee and an odd little funk. Lots of sugar sweetness in the flavor. Figs, plum, some bready yeast, and noticable alcohol when you exhaled. I liked it more as I had more samples.