Corsendonk Christmas Ale

Dark brown beer with a nice thick creamy tan head that has decent retention. Aroma is dark fruit, must, and alcohol. Flavor is first fruit and then chocolate jumps in. Alcohol can’t be tasted but it provides warming. This beer is sweet and tasty and is also so easy to drink. It has a vinous quality and at times tastes like chocolate covered cherries. This one is dangerously good!

Bottle at Stardust. brownish amber body. sweet malts, not too sweet though. Nice and spicy. Dig it

Pours a foamy bubbly brown brew with sudsy beige head. Spritzy soda aroma is like coke and 7up, a citrusy and spicy foreground and not much else. Ginger, orange. Palate not as carbonated as it seems, which is good. Flavors beat the aromas. The sweet malt comes through a little and the result is a good fruitcake-like body replete with the strange red candied bits. Sweet, simple, and refreshing.

Bottle. Nice reddish pour with hardly any head at all. Aroma of caramel, spice, syrup, honey, and yeasty. Flavor has more alchohol than I usually like. It is a malty and sweet beer with a slight tart and hop balance. flavors in the beer include baking spices, cookies, malt and some yeasty notes. Overall not bad, but not the best ever either.

Bottle (750ml). Shared with blankboy, biegaman and garthicus. Deep clear ruby, average creamy straw-coloured head. Aroma of sweet medium-roast caramel malt, dry spice, some candied fruit, tangerines and a bit of paper (I bought the bottle almost 2 years ago - not bad!). Taste - more alcohol, the caramel malt is a little thinner, the spice is pungent yet dry, sweet and slightly biscuit/cocoa-y in the finish. Light body, a tad astringent, weak carbonation, but a nice well-blended linger; malt and dry spice. A little older, but still damned nice.

Thanks to HogTownHarry: Appearance:Cherry red with no head. Lots of floaties! Flavour: Slight cinnamon, coriander, lemon and malt. Flavour: Nice carbonation, bready, yeast, malt, winter fruits with a bitter malt finish.

Bottle from Knightly Spirits. Pours a large head over a brown/amber body. Tan lacing. Nose is slightly sour. Flavors include cola, toast, malts, and biscuit. Lively carbonation and medium/body. Not bad; way too easy to drink.

Bottle Hopduvel. Pours copper brown with a red shine. Vanilla, pepper, mint, chocolate, cloves aroma. Smoked cinnamon & burnt malts. Very lively, a bit too much acidity. A bit too unbalanced.