Abita Christmas Ale

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Abita Springs, Louisiana USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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This beer is alright, color of honey...a "dark ale"? Aroma of sweet celery/vegetable. Taste was creamy yet spicy....drinkable, but not addictive.

Batch 2002: This is like a mildly spiced vienna and really isn’t all that good.

This is a nice winter seasonal. I like this beer because it’s not spiced out of control like some Winter seasonals. Just a little undetermined spicy zing and a nice sweet & malty aftertaste mark this beer as a good brew for a cold winter day.

Don’t drink this holiday disappointment.

You might notice that Louisiana beers (dixi, acadiana) tend to have a cider taste to them somehow. I don’t know if they keep them in cider barrels or what, but Abita typicaly doesn’t have that distinction. This particular seasonal abita beer (after fall fest and before red ale) does have that distinction and is particularly good during christmas time. It’s aftertaste tastes like you drank out of a can, but the initial taste makes up for that fault. I prefer to drink it with something sweet like a desert, but it is definatly not something I would like to drink all day. Do give it a shot.

Slightly bitter, but still pretty nice.

Clear light copper with a thin white head. Toasted malts in the nose with some metallic hints. Metallic twang to the thinnish body with some citrus, atop a nice toasted malt profile which goes deep. Decent Vienna mild but a worthless winter seasonal.

Look forward to this years brew, last years was good, nice and malty, with a underlying hop floral essence.