Maritime Pacific Jolly Roger Christmas Ale

Brewed by Maritime Pacific Brewing Co.
Style: English Strong Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

Draught at the Brouwer’s Cafe, Seattle. Clear dark amber. Appley nose. Very sweet, thick and syrupy. Plenty of malt, but everything gets lost in a sea of syrup. A dentists wet dream.

Date: 10/26/1997
Mode: Bottle
Source: Burlingame Grocery, OR

dark amber, frothy tan head, strong spicy malt aroma, rich malt flavor, hint of spices, slight bitterness in the finish

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Score: **+/4
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Slightly hazy amber colour. Interesting sweet caramel aroma with lots of brown sugar, and light fruits. Quite malty, almost candyish. Decent beer, though a bit too sweet for my tastes.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with riversideAK (thanks!). Poured a medium and lightly hazy amber color with a large sized off white head. Lots of suspended floaters. Aromas of yeast, bready, toasted malts, caramel, and all around malty. Tastes of caramel, toasty, bready, and some dark fruits. Alcohol content well hidden.

Tap@The Jolly Roger. Pretty malty. Lots of nutty, toffee, raisiny sort of flavour, a bit spicey. Good off-dry hoppy finish, fairly assertive, not too bad.

Cask version, marks as above Mahogany-chestnut, clear; rather good head. Slightly fishy ( adequate, maybe?) & hoppy nose, but no C-hops onslaught. And then there’s both vanilla and diacetyl underneath. Sweet, butterscotch, toffee and a hop onslaught sticking uneasily on it. This is totally unbalanced and actually off-putting. Sticky, not to say cloying and very badly... "casked"??? A very poor show. They seem not to know how to handle this.
Bottled, slightly aged, thanks to DonGS Hazy red-foxy; rosy-amber head, small but dense, leaving some good rings. 4 Some malts in a cookie way; hops abundant all the same, and a pretty vinous character. 7 Definitely some oxydation, licorice, fruity taste - raspberry pour. 6 Despite its ABV, and malt toll, it’s a bit watery - the oxydation? 3 Good, but it suffered from its - relatively short - aging. 14 = 3.4

Bottle courtesy of 5000. Pours copper with a white head. Smells of roses, caramel, some earthy hints. Tastes of spicy and sweet with some dark fruity hints on the finish.

12 oz bottle. Deep ruby-brown beer with a thick light tan head. Sweet malty and spicy aroma, nutmeg, cinnamon. A bit of plummy aroma as well. Smells like a gingerbread cookie. Flavour is spicy over sweet caramel and toffee malts. A bit of diacetyl flavour, but isn’t objectionable. Sticky, puddingy malts with a clove-dominated spicy flavour. Lingering bready malt finish. As it warms, the peppery alcohol and spicy hops really come forward.