Salama Brewing Co. Santa's Hjelper

Santa's Hjelper

 

Salama Brewing Co. in Kerava, Uusimaa, Finland 🇫🇮

  IPA - New England / Hazy Winter
Score
7.07
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 8
A hoppy alternative for the festive season. Sweet and fruity NEIPA with a gingerbread twist. Knocks your socks off like a grazy reindeer.
 

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8.4

Tried from Draft on 17 Jan 2026 at 17:20


6.8
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Smell of hops, some tropical fruit. Opaque yellow colour, small white head. Aroma of tropical fruit, coconut, some oat, hops, citrus. Lively carbon. Half creamy palate. Lightly bitter, lightly sweet.

Tried from Can from K-Citymarket (Turku Kupittaa) on 23 Dec 2025 at 17:41


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

0,44l can from K-Supermarket Lasihytti. Canned 09/2025, bbe 30.9.2026. Hazy yellow beer with medium, cloudy white head. Aroma is herbal, grapefruit and other fruits & needles. Flavor is pineapple, spices, herbs. Can't find much gingerbread. Not very christmasy either. Decent.

Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2025 at 18:43


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

440ml can.
Poured light yellow in color, hazy and with a white head.
Sweet pineapple juicy brew, clean though with nice drinkability. Fortunately lactose barely showing. Some fermented fruity notes in finish.

Tried on 08 Dec 2025 at 14:02


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

A quite light yellow and murky beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma is strongly fruitful, mango, grapefruit, papaiya, lychee. Taste has grapefruit, mango, spicyness. Medium bodied. Great fruitness. Very nice.

Tried from Can from K-Citymarket (Turku Kupittaa) on 16 Nov 2025 at 20:25


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

My Xmas rating No 16.25/26.Hazy yellow colour with medium white head.Aroma op pine and needle trees nice spicy and juicy good bitterness and crispy fresh taste good by style.

Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 14 Nov 2025 at 12:47


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Sample at Aarhus Together 2025, Godsbanen 25/10/2025

Tried on 25 Oct 2025 at 07:24


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Herbal, fruity, grapefruit nose. Light to medium-bodied. Grapefruit, herbal hops, lactose in the flavour. Some bitterness in the aftertaste. Not so Xmasy.

Tried from Can from K-Citymarket (Pori Puuvilla) on 15 Oct 2025 at 16:46