3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Huge, spicy aroma of hops and fruit. Copper colour, medium carbonation and only a slight head. Very tasty, fruit, hops and spice - very slightly watery despite the 5% abv. Christmas ales probably should be a little less easy drinking and more full bodied - but good none the less.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at Cains Brewery Tap, Liverpool 17/12/2010 (As Christmas Ale ABV 4.7%)
Big fruit aroma. White head. Golden bronze coloured and hoppy with some alcohol present. Fruity banana flavour with a bitter malt finish.
Also sampled in the midst of the heaviest snowstorm I’ve ever seen in Liverpool city centre!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tried this in the ’Brewery Tap’ when visiting Liverpool. Well worth it. Took a while to get used to the ’mulled wine’ taste but soon found I loved it. A lovely warming beer. And it started to snow!
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Picked this in bottle a couple of times now Dark amber in colour bit fruity and spicey with a nice sweetness, very full of flavour and one of the better beers that I’ve had from Cains.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Dark amber hue with a decent white head. Flowery grassy hoppy nose with a spicey twist. Nutty spicey taste with earthy tones. A decent Christmas ale.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
fruity and fig like malty aroma, bronze hue with a small head, rich fruit cake flavour, spicey notes with a firm body, bitter and fruity finish, a good christmas ale.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled, Pasteurised. Copper coloured beer with thin head. Spicey big flavoured beer. Apple, raisins and sultanas to the fore. Sweet with little finish
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: AUG 29, 2003 A well-made beer. Nice mouthfeel. Sweetness with hints of cinnamon. Excellent christmas beer.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
strange red-amber colour, few foam, artichoke aroma, fruity and spicy with a subtile bitterness
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