Maritime Pacific Jolly Roger Christmas Ale

12 oz. bottle from riversideAK. Pours a clear copper color with a small off white head. The aroma was moderaely sweet ripe fruits, caramel/ toffee, with some spices. The flavor has some sweetness, although not as much as the nose indicated. Caramel malt, dark fruit, apricot, earthy hops create bitterness. This is medium bodied and smooth drinking.

Bottle... Poured a hazy amber/ruby color with a beige head. Musty aroma of spices, brown sugars, and malts. A little boozy but the sweet malts balanced nicely with dark fruit flavors, toffee, caramel and earthy hops.

Bottle. Vintage 2005. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweetish malty chocolate and caramel flavor with some hoppy bitter hints. Has a warming malty spicy chocolate and caramel finish with some hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

Bottle. Pours Copper/amber, with an off white head. Aroma is caramel, malt, and toffee. Flavor is caramel, alcohol, and malt.

Brilliant red-amber body with a crisp head that fades. Cotton candy aroma with an intense bubble gum quality and gorgeous malt touch--one of the vey best english strong ale bouquets. The flavor is of refined candy malt and alcohol--transfixed so it does not waver--extremely consistent throughout and well balanced with hop tone. A great english strong ale.

12 oz bottle pours medium copper brown with a slight tannish head. Bready nose with some smoke and toffee. Slight burnt coffee body. A bit dry and some sweetness with the medium body.

Bottle shared by alexsdad. Poured clear brown color with medium off-white fizzy head that mostly with good lacing. Medium roasted malt aroma with a hoppy tone. Medium to full body with a smoth texture. Medium to heavy flavor of roasted malt with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Good interesting solid brew.