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Breckenridge Christmas Ale

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
3073.08/5.03.08/5.0Winter7.4%6.1Snifter, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
The chill of a Colorado high-country winter calls for a beer with extra flavor and strength. Here it is. At over 7% alcohol, with a sturdy texture and rich flavors of caramel and chocolate, our holiday seasonal is the fermented equivalent of a good fire.
The ultimate winter warmer.
Available: November-December
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 daalamar (403), bardstown, Kentucky, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Mar 25, 2006  
Mahogany color with very little head. Aroma is malty with a spicy sour twinge.. Flavor is grainy (seems to be a dominant factor in all the breckennride brews) with some bitterness towards the finish. Not alot of hop flavors or complexity. A warming beer that......although boreing... is easily quaffable.


 ebarnes (213), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Mar 10, 2006  
12oz bottle
Looks like I just poured a flat soda into my Chimay glass. No head at all. Just a few bubbles. Cola colored as well. Aroma is dominated by spice. Cloves, cinnamon, maybe ginger. Smooth, malty, spicy flavor that disguises the alcohol quite nicely. Nice beer.


 Wakie (612), Centreville, Virginia, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Mar 8, 2006  
Definitely a winter beer. Slightly more alcoholic than the standard, with a lot of flavors blended together (caramel, chocolate, cloves, etc). The downside is that all of these flavors almost negate each other.


 RooftopRogue (423), Champaign, Illinois, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Mar 7, 2006  
This beer offers an aroma consisting of hops, barley, malt, clove, and pine. It is a copper colored solution with an off-white head that dissolves rather quickly. This thin beer tingles the tongue as a flavor infused with hops, malt, and pine flows over the tongue.


 oldrtybastrd (1801), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Mar 1, 2006  
Pours a nice dark reddish amber color. Aromas of spices, and some other hints, maybe fruit, maybe caramel. Flavor is a bittersweet, malty, and a hint of hops with a nice dry finish.


 1FastSTi (2557), Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Feb 12, 2006  
Pours to a mahogany body with a thick creamy off white head. Nice lacing. The aroma is strong. Gingerbread cookies, raisin bread, cinnamon, nutmeg, christmas wreath. The flavor is much the same as the aroma but has caramel and white chocolate as well. The palate is creamy, medium bodied, and lightly spicy.


 BeerandBlues2 (3203), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/512/20
Feb 3, 2006  
12-oz. bottle. Pours mahagony, walnut brown with a foamy off-white head. Cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla notes, aroma is fruity hop and malt (cookie) with trace yeast. Yeast bomb, malt (grain) flavor with medium sweetness, no acidity or bitterness, caramel notes. Medium bodied and smooth, clean palate.


 sfontain (506), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/512/20
Feb 2, 2006  
Dark amber with a bit of red; medium frothy head; fair lacing down the glass. Aroma is malty with a light dose of caramel; some raisin and just a hint of pine. Flavor is fairly weak; slightly malty, slightly nutty; just barely shows alcohol. Medium body; sticky. A lame beer with a lot of potential, but this needs work.



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