Christmas Ale
The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly Beer) in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Winter|
Score
6.73
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Our Christmas Ale is a warming winter ale that blends the spices of the season with sweet caramel malt. The inspiration for this beer comes from spiced holiday beverages such as wassail and mulled wines. Around the holidays, the sweet and spicy aromas are the perfect compliment for enjoying each other’s company and spreading goodwill!
• Process: Brewed with a Blend of Spices
• Hops: Northdown (UK)
• Grains: Pale, Caramel, Munich & Chocolate Malts
• Yeast: American Ale
• Traits: Spicy boy
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Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Dark chestnut brown with moderate tan head. Nutmeg, cinnamon, caramel malt, and hay aroma. Mildly sweet nutmeg, cinnamon, caramel malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Nice spice prescence without being overwhelming.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Dark maroon pour. Cinnamon allspice and cloves with malty fruity finish. Appropriately seasonal.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
OK, so I waited long enough to try this. I don't really care for most of these weird spice forward beers, so I left it in the cellar far a while until I got up the nerve to tick it. From a bottle this stuff looks quite festive. A maroon hue on an otherwise very dark beer, something like root beer. Not getting much spice on the nose, has a rather crisp olfactory about it. First taste is somewhat astringent, a weird piercing bitterness, like a poorly made sharper pilsner. This is followed by some kindah stronger mixture of odd spices. All kinds seem to be thrown in here. Yes, a little sickening with the cloying sweetness as well. Middle was a somewhat warming sensation about it but that mess of spices, along with the sharp astringency, make this a little difficult to take. Hoping the alky content eventually helps me to forget about this bomb. Yea, its bombarding my senses, and not in a good way. Difficult, not iiking this session. However, I can't bring myself to make it a drain pour. The texture and palate of this does have some carbonation, but its mouthcoating SOB. Such an untidy disorderly disarrayed clutter, and a heap of shambles. Yep, yer typical nasty holiday spiced beer mishmash, undeserving of the word Christmas. There, you have it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. Didn’t care for this one. Amber color. A little cloudy. Aroma was funky, fat woman’s underwear. Taste funky and spicy. Horrible actually. Drain pour.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark brown with a large fluffy head. Toasty, nutty, malty and faintly astringent with dark fruit and vague spices. Medium finish and body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
sample in flight during Christmastime. Decent beer - unique in its spices, certainly Christmas feeling to taste. Liked it
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 355 ml in SP line. Pours maroon with beige head. Some light caramel, light fruit, spicy, cinnamon, bit watery.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draught @ Albion. Clear dark amber-burgundy with creamy dark beige head, spicy caramel malt aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter caramel malt taste with ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon, somewhat thick body, long spicy finish. A good winter warmer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a hazy copper amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out notes of cinnamon, subdued nutmeg and light caramel. Flavour is along the same lines, with nutmeg, cinnamon and brassy malt. Spicy and malty. Not a fan.