3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a deep red color with a very nice head and plenty of lace. The aroma is like apple potpourri which is nice, but then there is some mild stinky aged vegetable aroma that isn’t so great. The flavor has some chocolate, some spice, some apple, and some cherry with a bit of graininess. The palate is slightly thin.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
In the bottle from HyVee Ames Iowa. Pours a mahogany color with a seriously good off white head. The lacing is simply incredible: beautiful wall of lace coats the glass. Not much in the aroma department, though. The beer lacks much of anything. Quite watery in body, it fails to impress upon me the season of gift-giving. The finish is a fowl and harsh bitter bite that leans toward side-tongue pepper. Again, just because you call your beer "Christmas beer" does not mean that you can shtupp us up the arse mit der shite brew.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
bottle, pours dark amber with a medium off white head. Nice hop aroma with pine and spiced notes. Flavor is nice toasted malt, balanced well with moderate hop bitterness and a peppery spice in the finish. Nice.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Pours amber with an off white head. Malty aroma with a light sweetness. The flavor is malty and lightly sweet with a light spice. Decent.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Remembered this being a little better last year. Chestnut-colored, slight hop bitterness. A little fruit, really a deluxe amber kind of brew. Watery and thin though. Not bad for Abita, but not that great either.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
The aroma is very interesting with caramel, vanilla, and slight notes of coffee. Flavor is very hoppy, with some coffee again. Finish was very bitter.
2.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
Bottle. Pours brown, clear color with a small, frothy brownish head. Lacing is moderate. Aromas of brown sugar, molasses, and butterscotch. Palate is medium body, creamy texture, lively carbonation, and a long finish. Tastes of a strange combination of weird sugar, sours, and a strange aftertaste. You cannot drink this beer without making a very funny face.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
A clear reddish brown pour with medium off-white head. The aroma is very complex with caramel, vanilla, and nuts. The taste is also a caramel and nut malt with some hop bite in the finish. The texture is sort of oily and the carbonation is very soft.
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