Santa's Little Helper (2010)
(Batch of Santa's Little Helper)
Mikkeller in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijBelgian Style - Strong Ale Winter
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Score
7.45
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
750 ml bottle. Amber with a big, creamy beige head. Aroma of malt and spices, but slightly lighter than previous versions. Flavor is also a bit milder, malt, caramel, and spices – specially cinnamon and nutmeg. Quite sweet and a bit modest maybe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2011
at 09:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 c&c from Bottle Barn. Pours really dark brown with a foamy 3 finger tan head. Aroma is xmasy - cinnamon, nutmeg, with some dark fruit and chocolate. Med body. Flavor is roast dark malt with musty fruit cake - and the spices and chocolate. There’s sweetness, but there seems to be enough hop to set that off. Certainly a different and complex item.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2011
at 17:17
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Creamy lightbrown good fully lasting head. Dark amber colour. Heavy malty and hoppy great aroma. Powerfull heavy bitter flavor. Strong chocolate and nice week licorice notes. Creamy palate. World class.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2010
at 02:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle, 0.75 l) The beer poured dark reddish brown. Its head was medium sized and light brown. Aroma had malts, liquorice, chocolate, citricness and alcohol. Palate was full bodied warming, and bit dry with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, roastedness, caramell, chocolate, mild citricness, sweetness, orange, hops and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty, roasty and bitter. Alcohol was too much present but otherwise the beer was quite nice. Especially I liked that the roasty flavours weren’t drowned by the spices.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2010
at 09:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with medium retention recedes leaving spotted sheets to coat surface. Chocolate and juniper aromas. Medium bodied with spicy juniper and toasted chocolate upfront. Turning dusty and woody in the dry, lasting herbal finish. Alcohol is well hidden.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2010
at 15:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled. Very dark brown, rich creamy head. Thick and mega-sweet with caramel, syrup and spices. Cushiony soft with somealcohol warmth, and mouthfilling toffee/spice flavours. Enjoyabkle, but onlyin small amounts due to the intense sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2010
at 04:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Fast gone rim of cream-coloured foam, near-black beer. Spiced, as with holly and fir, dark, but fine aromalike malts. Liquorice, mild mocha, and a bit of ashes, but the liquoriceflavour, fortified by both the alcohol and the other spices is way too prominent. In the finish, notes of cypress and lavender. Thick, sleazy, filthily rich feel. Rich, but a bit too liquorice-sweet.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2010
at 05:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On keg at Cask & Kitchen, London. Pours dark ruby with thin beige head, low carbonation, but was a bit too cold than I would have liked. Nose; christmas pudding; dark fruits and spices. Taste; suprisingly thin for 10%, caramel, cinnamon, ginger, dark fruits, dark chocolate, smooth and drinkable. Glad to have had the chance to taste this on tap!
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Dec 2010
at 09:58