Breckenridge Christmas Ale

Brewed by Breckenridge Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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Name: XMas
Date: December 26, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Prado
Appearance: clear dark amber, fine beige head, heavy lace
Aroma: sweet spicy malty aroma, cinnamon
Flavor: rich malt flavor, touch of caramel sweetness, balancing spicyness, light bitterness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

(Bottle) Pours a dark amber-brown color with hardly any head. Descent tasting seasonal ale, but not overly impressive.

Hazy dark brown body with small beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, roasty/burnt caramel, some nutty, light sour cherry. Taste is medium sweet, nutty, some caramel, roasty, light astringent. Creamy medium body with low carbonation.

Thinks this bottle is from Archer Liquor. Pours ruddy copper with a good tan head. Aroma is a bit papery with dark roast malt. Medium body with average carbonation. Flavor is darkish roast caramel with chocolate hitting the tongue sides. Or so it seems. The chocolate malts make it a bit astringent. A non-spicey xmas ale. And not all that sweet. Good drink.

Bottle. Poured dark clear brown color with an average off-white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate spicy chocolate aroma. Medium body with soft carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a medium spicy sweet finish of moderate duration.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with OhioDad (thanks!). Pourd a medium and clear copper color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, light spices, toasted malts and some citrus. Tastes of caramel, sweet malts, and some toffee. I found the tastes to be on the weaker side compared to the aromas. The body was also thin and watery.

A dark brown ale with a thick moka head. A nutty aroma with light chocolate notes and hops. In mouth, a solid nutty malt, with light molasses, some British hopping. Medium bodied. On tap at Ballpark brewpub 24 Jan. 2009.

Bottle: Pours a clear deep copper amber with a spotty-lacing off-white head. Has a lightly sweet toasted caramel malty nose with a touch of piny hops and a pinch of cinnamon. Starts with decent fullness and a mild toasty sweetness with some light fruity notes and hop bitterness before a drier biscuity finish. An ok Christmas beer, but doesn’t really have anything special going for it.

Pours with a small, off-white head and a dark mohagoney body. Some hops (a light but similar profile to SN Celebration). Somee spicey hops, malt with caramel. Tastee is nutty (hazlenut), with lightly spicey hops. Somee fizz, waterlike mouthfeel.

First smell is a bit of ashtray, then turns a bit of sweet maple and raspberry liquor. Mundane flavors... light cherry or wood or something, it’s not important... lacking any holiday-like spices, it has a little sweet scotch and plum flavors, but nothing tremendously impressive... drinkable though.