On tap. Pours with a hazed red hued body with a lasting tan head. Aromas are spicy, hoppy, pine, earthy and a bit of caramel. Flavors are bitter, a bit green, pine, evergreen, hoppy. Some caramel and medium to light esters. A bit thin on the body. Medium to slightly lively carbonation.

Beautiful deep red-burgundy beer; smallish yellow-brown head. Hoppy nose, with dark malts & chocolate. Aroma as from dark green leaves - holly? Hop tea: with malt, aromatic hops, bitterhops, and bitter leaf vegetables as Roman salad or spinach. Good balance. Spices, retronasal, are unidentifyable. Medium bodied at best. Weak point of this beer is its rather thinnish body, beefed-up by the spices. Thank God ( and Rodger D.) this bears no resemblance to their I. Wit. This one is quite passable!

Draft at the brewpub, the day after Xmas. Light caramel aroma. Reddish tinged amber color with a respectable beige/tan head. Nice pine note over roasted caramel. The spice has a strong evergreen direction. Like juniper. Clean and refreshing. Drinks easier and more flavorfully than many a Xmas ale.

Draft. Rich mahogony beer with a nice off-white head. Spice and malt aroma. Xmas spice flavor with caramel malt backing. Spice lingers. Medium body. Standard Xmas spice beer. 2009 version is different and much better (an 8% imperial red with big hops)