3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught@Pikkulintu (way back in 2006). Hazy deep ambery brown colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruity and floral hops along with some spicyness. Flavour is spices, hops and some sweet malts. Balanced and quite pleasant beer, that probably suits the X-mas table.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught at Söderbärke Mikroölfestival. Ruby colour, small head. Spicy nose with notes lavender and juniper berries (even if these are not the spices added), as well as grassy hops. Medium bodied with clean rounded mouthfeel. Complex and intriguing flavour from the mix of spices, hops and caramelly malt. Rather light for a Christmas ale, but who cares with all these flavours?
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at Bishops Arms, Malmö.
Cloudy orange red coloured with an off white head.
Aroma of spices and hops with notes of fruits, anise and liquorice.
Flavour of spices and hops with notes of fruits and anise.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught at Bishop’s Arms, Malmö
Cloudy dark amber color. Very nice aroma, malt, but most of all hops (earthy, English). Good body, where the caramel preveals, on some malt, roasted malt and hop. Final bitterness, equally from the roasted malt and the hop.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught @ Bishop’s Arms, Malmö. Pours a slightly hazy dark reddish colour with an off-white head. Hoppy spicy malty aroma. Sweet malty piny hoppy flavor. Dry hoppy finish with a long bitter aftertaste.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Glenfiddich Warehouse, Stockholm. Amber color, great creamy offwhite head. Fruity, hoppy aroma with some licorice. Fruity, hoppy flavor, licorice and some viol in the finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Draught at The Rover, Göteborg) Fruity and floral hoppy taste with a nice bitter hoppiness initially. Clear red brown color with a dense tan head. Fresh scent with some licorice. Some spices in the taste as well. Medium bitterness. Medium mouthfeel. Nice after bitterness.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Draught@Pikkulintu) Slightly hazy,dark ruby red with a small, but lasting and lacy head. Toffee-malty, christmas-spicy and flowery-hoppy, balanced and tempting aroma. Woody-hoppy, toffee-malty, dryish flavor with a strong, anise-licoricey finish. Medium-bodied, slicky palate with quite low carbonation. A very nice and balanced, christmasy, but not spicewise overdone brew.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Draught, Stockholm Beer Festival, 7 Oct) Dark amber colour with ruby notes, foamy, but small, head. Fruity nose with toffee, toasty malt, nuts, caramel and English hop aromas. Malty taste with caramel, nuts, spices and some rubbery notes. Nice beer, but wouldn’t suffer from a little more of everything.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at The Rover, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dark amber. Small off-white and firm head.
Spicy in both aroma and flavour. Licorice and all kinds of christmas-spicies.
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