3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nearly black beer, reddish shine; medium amber-crème head. Creamy-vanilla nose, liquorice. Very stout-like, liquorice, finish more bitter than slight sweet-sourish main taste. The vanilla here shows its oakwood origins. Ends sweeter, warming up, getting a bit Cola-like, and also getting more and more clovey. Well-bodied, warming but alcohol not obvious. Good, but severe Christmas ale. Doesn’t fall in the spicey "Underlig" trap.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: AUG 29, 2007 Sampled from a 500ml bottle. Very dark brown colored body with some red hue at the bottom, and a medium-dark tan or brown head on top. Nose of smoke, char, toffee, amaretto, juniper berries, spiced rum and jasper and pine needles. Flavor is creamy, smoky sap and pine needles, more juniper and jasper, with some sappy, spicy “Christmas” flavors… reminds me of a few years of Anchor OSA. Fizzy, frothy, but not too thick. Really, really tasty, but I tend to like beers that taste like trees.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Listed as Nøgne Winter Ale. A gusher. Pours with a large, thick brown head covering a black body with a couple large yeast particles. Strong lacing and retention. Aroma of cinnamon, brown sugar, milk chocolate, and toffee. Taste is pretty metallicy, with some coffee grounds and spices. Creamy mouthfeel, light carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Almost black colour with a baige head. Light roasted chocolate hoppy aroma and taste. Medium body and a light dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle courtesy of henrikb. Pours dark brown with a tan head taht dissipates quickly. Smells of chocolate, coffee, nuts, yogurt and hints of vanilla. Tastes of chocolate, coffee, pepper and somewhat nutty. Some raisin hints emerge as the beer warms. Mouthfeel is somewhat thick with a finish that features coffee and sugar prominently.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 9, 2010 500ml bottle. Batch #309
Extremely dark brown, thin head which fades, then pretty flat. Served a bit cool, slightly spicy and cascadey aroma, some graininess as it warms. Sticky sweet mouthfeel, fairly fizzy in a creamy way, surprising given how flat it appears in the glass. Very richly roasted malt, quite burnt, and pungent bitter hops in the taste. I just burped pure hops!(6:3:8:4:13=3.5)
Rerate (keg, pikkulintu) (6:4:6:3:13=3.2)
Smoky aroma. Rich burnt taste, very spicy, and alcoholic. Smooth slick palate.
3.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
IThis black ale is a cross between a porter (albeit some coca-cola taste from the carmel etc.), a stout from some toasted barley, a dark ale, shwartzbeir, and an underlying citrus without being overhopped. Well done! chose this as #2100 review, as this brewery is up and coming and I’m really enjoying what they produce.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from Capone’s. Onyx pour with 2-finger, creamy tan head and floaties. Marvelous appearance. Aroma of Roasty dark malt, chocoff, nutmeg, molasses. Tastes roasty chocolate malty, with a big chocoff and molasses hit coupled with cinnamon, nutmeg, and sprucy finishing hops. Thich, rich, complex mouthfeel. This one is one of the better Christmas beers I have quaffed, and I recommend it to anyone.
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