3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500mL bottle. Pours thick opaque dark brown with a bit of suspended sediment and a dense tan head. Aromas of molasses, chocolate, coffee, wood and some alcohol. Medium sweetness and bitterness, roasty with a little smoke. Full bodied, soft carbonation, fairly slick with a burnt bitter and slightly astringent finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle courtesy of Cheeseman. A nice representation of what a Holiday beer should be! Pours a clear dark mahogany. Aroma is sweet, with chocolate, pipe tobacco, and dark fruits. Flavor is butterscotch, dark rum, chocolate.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark red ale with great viscous lacing and a nice initial head. Very full and complex aromoa mostly of spice, malt, alcohol, and dark bitter chocolate. Flavor is malty toffee sweet the spicy, and of bitters like in a good Manhattan. Really well put together.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. This little guy has been on deck in my fridge for FAR too long and it’s time. Pours a dark, dark brown with slight red notes. Light tan head. Roasty note without being too over done, more like a light roast and caramel. Some metallic in the nose as well. Medium mouthfeel. Off the bat, to me this tastes roasty with a slight smoky note to it. Lingering roast bitterness. Overall, not bad.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2007 Vintage, batch 301,500 ml bottle. 2 finger beige head thant sinks to 0,5 mm, black body. Nose: chocolate, cloves, pommerans, licorice. Taste: Licorice, ammonia, cloves,pommerans, chocolate, and coffee. Silky mouthfeel and a very long aftertaste. Masterfull
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
UPDATED: DEC 29, 2011 No Christmas without Nøgne Ø’s God Jul, this is the X-Mas beer that all other X-Mas beers are measured up against! This is smooth as silke running down your throat, so soft and well balanced, but still so rich, full bodied and full of taste and complex. If I only could bring one Christmas beer to an deserted island, this would be it...
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle - under the Winter Ale moniker. Black pour with a foamy brown head. Aroma is sweet and nutty with caramel, toasted malt, soft spice, chocolate and dark fruit. Taste is sweet malt, caramel, roasted malt, chocolate, soft spice, dark fruit, light vanilla and cocoa. Body is medium with a mild, foamy carbonation. Ends with more roasted malt, light coffee, chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, soft vanilla, spice notes, and sweet malt.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
No sembla ni una American Strong Ale, ni tampoc una cervesa de nadal. Té torrats, chocolata, café, un punt lleuger de caramel i un final lleugerament amarg. Fosca i amb el carbònic fi i ben integrat. Gran cervesa.
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