Schlafly Christmas Ale

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Pours reddish amber with a fully receding wispy tan head. Aroma of mulling spices, clove, and caramel. Taste is light sweet and bready with notes of clove and orange peel. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with soft carbonation. A nice beer with too many cloves, good otherwise.

Excellent seasonal. Clear copper body with a small beige head that retains well and deposits some patchy lace. Very spicy aroma, with gingerbread, pine cone, cloves, nutmeg, and orangepeel. The spices zing the tongue and the body is medium with good carbonation. Taste is malty with toffe and caramel notes, almost overwhelmed by the assertive spicing. Nice touch of bittering pine hops. Dry finish with a ginger aftertaste. Alcohol content is very well hidden.

Nice effort. Pours a nice reddish-copper with a medium-to-thin head. Aroma is like a very, very yeasty gingerbread man. Almost too yeasty. Flavor is full, caramel, toffee, maple syrup (think Mary Janes or Squirrel Nut Zippers), followed by ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. A very candy-like beer, appropriate flavors for the holiday, and a very nice alcohol buzz. Good stuff, right there with the pumpkin.

This is a beautiful beer. Dark reddish brown in color it has a rich thick foamy head. The aroma is very spicey and sweet. Some cinnamon is evident as are cloves. Hops add just a hint of tartness. There is a chemical flavor that is unpleasant but it is faint. Mouth feel is creamy and smooth. A slight bitter aftertaste has a short life after each taste. As the beer warmed some sweet malts came to the forefront. The chemical flavor never quite disappears but that is the only real negative against this beer.

Good copper color. Strong spice aroma which is very good. Defenite cinnamon presence in the taste with a pronouncced orange peel bitterness at the end. I agree that this tastes similar to the pumpkin especially on the first try. Having another one helps distinguishing the differences. I was hoping for something a little different but it is very good.

From a bottle. The body was dark copper with a light tan colored head. The aroma was cinnamon and nutmeg with some ginger bread and caramel. The taste was ginger bread with some nutmeg. The finish was decently spicy. This needs something to balance out the spice.

Great label on this amber winter seasonal. Cinnamon, spice (clove) and pine aromas. More caramel on the tongue. Palate is a bit sweet and kind of sticky. If you don’t mind the sweetness, a festive ale for the season.

UPDATED: NOV 21, 2006 Pour is a murky brown with a small white head. Aroma is pretty darn good with gingerbread, cinammon and nutmeg all coming through. Flavor is weaker than the aroma but there is a very dry spiceyness to it. Hops make an appearence at the end. Still this is a pretty tasty and warming brew.

From a 12 oz. bottle with a blurb on the neck label and a bottled on date, Oct.25.06. Poured a filtered clear deep amber with a fluffy, foamy head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing. Christmas gingerbread aromas, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice and small whiffs of alcohol. Good, steady carbonation and a malty crisp, creamy smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Very fresh tasting, once again, gingerbready, clove, cinnamon and all spice, a touch of a candied sour orange, the alcohol flavor makes a brief flash towards the end and has a warming presence that lingers in the palate, and a dry, Christmas spice and caramel malt finish. I thought this had a nice fresh malty taste, a good Christmas seasonal, a good slow, sipping, savoring drinkability.

bottle-pours clear orange with a small white soapy head. a pretty ordinary looking beer. nose is spicy-lots of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and ginger. flavors of toasted malt, lots of ginger, light orange peal, but the finish is kinda wierd-very tart and very hard to describe. very dry finish with lingering spices. palate is over carbonated slightly. definately a notch down from the pumpkin, but has alot of characteristics of that beer as well. 8%? damn i would have never known. just a notch below the pumpkin, but still a tasty brew.