3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled, pasturised. Brown orange beer with slight head. Spicy, fruity nose with a thin but nicely pleasant christmas pudding type flavour, raisins currants and cranbery with cloves all lurking. A very good beer that could have been a great beer with slighly more effort.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled.
Hazy brown-orange. Big cinnamon nose with hints of clove. Flavour is same, plus a little citrus. Some bitterness.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
This was a pleasant surprise.I was expecting a mundane ale instead what I got was
a spicey comlex beer with a different taste.Not sure what the spices were but they sure grabbed my interest.Very warming different and nice.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
I got a lot of spieces in the aroma and in the taste. Not bad but I would have expected a higher alchohol percentage for a Christmas Ale and a bit more body
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Amber bronze, moderate white head and moderate condition. Strangely spicy nose, with hints of peardrops, pineapple and crushed weeds. Sounds a bad mix but seemed to work. More herbal weed notes with some spicy cloves lurking. Warming winter spice and herbal bitterness in the finish. If this was twice the strength and a little more fuller bodied it would be a far more interesting beer.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Golden amber hue with a decent white head. Spicey nutmeg and cinnamon nose. Spices follow through to the taste. Malty body with a bitter finish. Decent ale that is a little shocking at first.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Caramel coloured standard ale with a rum and suet very Christmas pudding aroma. The flavour is very sweet with again a suet and Christmas pudding prominent element. A quite terrible Christmas pudding flavoured beer.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Pastuerised Bottle. From Asda supermarket. BBE Jan 2005. A bog standard and dull bitter with a few spices chucked in. Not unpleasant but not exactly top quality stuff. Comes in a fancy tube with a Christmas card cartoon decoration to encourage purchase of this as a gift.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
This is strong in cloves, herb and coriander aroma. Proper Crimbo. Flavours are very herbal, floral and even medicinal. The finish and mouthfeel are thin and really quite dreadful. An OK different beer for yule.
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