Location: 12 oz bottle from Oak Tree, 12/2/12

Aroma: The nose has a ton of winter-style spices, with some sweet malts, and fruity notes
Appearance: Pours a slightly hazy reddish-amber color with a small off-white head and spotty lace
Flavor: It tastes fairly sweet and fairly spicy, with minimal bitterness, and a bit of booze on the finish
Palate: The body is medium-plus, it feels somewhat tingly, fairly sticky, and with a light heat to the finish
Overall Impression: This one was a bit strange, but not in a bad way. The spice dominates the nose, but somehow it becomes much sweeter in the flavor, with the spice showing up mid-palate, and some booze coming through at the very end. The sweetness is so pronounced that the flavor didn't totally work, but it is still a decent beer, and an interesting offering.

Tap the brewpub as i my free pick as part of sampler. Pours browinsh ruby red with nice head. Great holiday nose, not overpowering spices but just enough to get you in the mood. Tastes of all spice for sure, and you also get nutmeg, cloves, and coriander. I also tastes some leather, cherries, earth, raisins, plenty of malt, and some spruce. Enjoyable end to my lunch at Bethlehem Brew works

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark caramel color with a large foamy beige head that lingered and left some lacing. The aroma was strong dry cloves and gingerbread. The flavor was bitter, dryish and had a very strong presence of clove and gingerbread. The finish was long and dry with lingering gingerbread. Medium body. Ok.

Bottle. Pours dark brown. Off white head. Nose and taste of cinnamon, all spice, clove, nutmeg and malt. Warming alcohol in the finish. Spice is a bit overpowering at times.

Bottle: Instant aroma of spices as it pours a dark, hazy amber with a large beige head. Thick lacing. Citrus, corriander, nutmeg, and a little cinnamon fill the air. Smells like a scented candle... Taste is spicey and floral, yet remains balanced. The coridander, cloves, and allspice are much more present in the flavor, yet not so much in the aroma. If you like a ton of spice, this is one to try. Too intense for me to really enjoy, but still fun to try.

Good yellowish head; slightly hazy amber chestnut beer. Very perfumed nose, some pine & resins, cypress, etc., and definitely spices: cinnamon, allspice - and bogmyrtle. It’s a bit like an aftershave, in smell. Very spicy taste, exorbitant aromatic oils from cloves, allspice, cinnamon,... Way overspiced. There’s a bit of sweetness lurking, but the typical spicy bitterness holds everything under its sway. Burning MF, oily, the spices are not strange to that. Medium bodied, but I have the impression it is heavier than it seems. " In die Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister". This might have been a lot better with some more caution on dosage. Thanks, Mike!

I had this first at the 2005 Brewtopia, along with a few other BBW beers, including a Peach Lambic. I was highly impressed by the whole lineup. However, I could never get any of their stuff of course and when I talked to some Jersey people about it they werent impressed. But I made it a point when I went to Shoreline to find this beer. So I scored this 22 oz bottle. Fridged for a few days and poured into a small curved goblet. Pours amber with orange and reddish tints. Cant see through it but some clarity, visible floaties, I bet from all the spices. Very small head. Aroma is very present and is really what one sould expect. Lots of spices of a winter beer plus a strong presence of belgian sweetness. I mean it seems to be a great fusion of two distinct styles. Taste is more dominated by the spices and I bet some time will really bring this beer together. Medium bodied with low bitterness and no hint of alcohol. Also a nice thing is the coriander seems to come out nicely outside of the pumpkin beer spices.

Pours with a fleeting white head that slips into a dark orange/amber body. Spicy-sweet fruity aroma that reminds me of candy "Circus Peanuts". A bit too much spice in the flavor.

on tap-pours a thin whitehead. Color is amber with effervescence. Aroma is malt. Taste is sweet, alcohol, malt, fruit, cinnamon, syrupy. Not my taste.