De Ranke Père Noël

Hazy orange body with a small off-white head. Aroma of lots of fruit and spice with some brown sugar. Sweet fruity flavor with some brown suar and spice.

RBSG 2007: From the monster bottle at the front of the room that sounded like a gunshot went off when opened. Poured a hazy gold with a white head, bit of a gusher. Aroma, funky, lemon, some bready notes, spices, smelled old. Flavor, pale malts, lemon, yeast, not bad.

Sample thanks to Maniac. Hazy apple juice, slight carbonation remaining. Lots of honey on the aroma, some apple juice, faint spice, including cloves and ginger. Flavor has honey sweetness with a good bit of spice reminiscent of potpourri. Not my thing. At all. Tastes like licking Christmas. Gave me the same shiver as a shot of cheap tequila.

Spicy nose with a hint of spruce maybe. Mostly malt body but plenty of balancing hop.

Pours a hazy orange amber with a small white head. Really hopy, grassy smell. A little fire smoke too, really unique aroma. The taste is a little more malty, but there is definitely a profound hop presence. Nice and smooth, but has a little bit of heat on the end too which caught me off guard. Nice unique spicy taste, I was very intrigued. The hops were very grassy and really worked with this beer.

On tap at Toronado. This orange ale poured with a thin white head and a flowery aroma. The flavor is malty with a hint of spices and a slightly bitter finish.

cloudy orange with a large head. musty, skunky, piney hop aroma. flavor is a good balance of malt and hops. bready malts with a piney hop flavor. light and refreshing.

This nice little bottle contains a warm amber brew with a copper hue. The head is nice and the aroma has notes of fruit, sweetness and spice. The flavour is sweetish with notes of coriander, spice and fruit. The finish is nice and dry with a good bitterness.