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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Ho Ho Ho!
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
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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Courtesy beastiefan. Caramel colored, with a really nice palate. Natural feeling carbonation, full with a prickly carbonation, complemented by warming caramel-cookie malts and a tempting citrus orange quality, overall very cookieish.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2009
at 17:22
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Light copper body. Small, off-white head that is mostly diminishing. Strong spice aroma of cloves and cinnamon. The spice nose carries over into the flavor which is dominated by clove. The aroma also has hints of pine, caramel and brown sugar. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. The finish stays on the sweet side. Medium body with a velvety, slightly sticky texture. Lively carbonation. The strong clove aroma and taste was too overpowering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2008
at 21:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle at the Old Chicago in Overland Park, Kansas. 10 29 08. Pour is ruby golden with active carbonation bubbles and an off white 1 inch head. Nice lacing. Aroma of cloves, cinnamon, brown sugar. Maybe some malt underneath all of that. Taste is big clove spiciness, very much potpourri. The brown sugar and cinnamon are present, but mostly taste the cloves. There is a hop bitterness to the finish. Palate is medium and fairly mouth coating. Nice, but a bit overpowering on the spice - though this did relax a bit as it warmed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2008
at 10:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
courtesy of hwwty4. Pours orange/brown with tan head. Aroma was loaded with nice piney hops. It almost felt like taking a walk in a pine forest, the aroma was that strong. Taste is hoppy, comes off well balanced with the malts and some spices (cinnamon). Really loved this one.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2008
at 19:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
The beer pours a beautiful dark amber color with a medium strong head. Its an extremely hazy beer with little clarity. This is almost a year old bottle and it seems to work very well. The strong spices are apparent with lots of orange coming through. Lots if clove and nutmeg as well. The malts are just slightly aged with some British ESB like flavors coming off. Combines very well with a sweet biscuit and spices into a fruit cake type of a brew. Loving it.
12oz bottle, bottled on Oct 31, 2007, Regenboog Chalice glass.
12oz bottle, bottled on Oct 31, 2007, Regenboog Chalice glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2008
at 01:28
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Party Source. This beer is a hazy amber color with a medium thin light beige head. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus peel, coriander and sweet cookies. Light-bodied with a sweet spiced character. Flavors of clove, caramel malt and mild hops. The finish is citrusy with a lingering sweet spice aftertaste. Slightly above average overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2008
at 14:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle (Oct. 30, 2007 on label). Pour is a slightly opaque orange with a dense, but small head. Aromas are of orange peels, spices and bread dough/yeast. I found this a delightful winter brew with a nice and full spicing that sits over a body of caramel malts with a touch of a hops finish. Sometimes there is a bit of a medicinal/herbal flavor that isn’t quite right, but I’m wondering if they tinkered with the recipe a bit since the 2006 batch. I really liked this one... it will rank as one of my favorite Christmase brews.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2007
at 22:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from BeerDrenched; Nose of cloves, cloves, and more cloves, along with a little orange, just as advertised! Good thing I love cloves! Copper wit a small beige head; spicy clove flavor with some light orange flavor and background hop bitterness wuhich shows up in the finish 10 or 15 seconds later as the spice flavors fade. Decent spiced ale!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2007
at 19:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
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.
Tried
on 08 Nov 2006
at 19:02