Christmas Ale
St. Bernardus Brouwerij in Watou, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Winter|
Score
7.64
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St. Bernardus Christmas Ale is a dark, seasonal beer, full of wintery character and flavours that we brew every year ready for the festive season. This beer takes on a splendid dark-brown colour that is topped off with a cream-coloured layer of froth. EBC 60.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Color: Dark ruby, mocha head. Aroma: Caramel, dark dried fruit, malty. Taste: Caramel, dark dried fruit, spicy and zesty notes, nuts / chestnut, christmas cake, some dark chocolate. Malty with hoppy backbone. Moderate to over moderate sweet, light to moderate bitterness. Medium body, just below average carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2024
at 20:16
Nose is Belgian and spicy, christmas cake in the mouth and more spicy aftertaste. Christmas is late but worth waiting for...
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2024
at 21:02
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.6
12 oz can. Dark brown pour with a monster khaki colored head that has good retention and crazy lacing. The aroma is raisins, dates and plums. The taste was not nearly as fruity as the aroma would have suggested. In the taste I get caramel, apples, toffee, cola and some deftly applied winter spices. The palate is full and oily with soft carbonation. Finishes long and dry with lingering nutmeg type spices. Overall: decent--Its every bit as good as I remember. I was a bit surprised to see this in a can, and the price was horrific at $24 a four-pack.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2024
at 20:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330 mL bottle. Picked up a 4-pack because I realized I hadn't rated it, and they ran out of it on tap at Hopcat last week, haha. Pours a deep reddish brown with an off-white head. Molasses and green, red grape in the aroma, with kind of a red apple brightness. Flavor has red grape, molassess, apple/pear, some ginger, cocoa, cinnamon. Overall yeasty impression as well. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2023
at 05:21
8/10
Good shit indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2023
at 22:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle pours out cola brown topped with a fizzy head. Nose is nice rich malts a great belg spice note. Taste is more of the nice Christmas spice notes and that belg kick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2023
at 22:49
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2023
at 21:49
8/10
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Danke Schulz und Uli
Danke Schulz und Uli
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2023
at 18:57
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bomber bottle - shared with friends. Very nice Quad/Winter Ale - surprised I've never had this before. Very big flavor - perfect cold weather sharable beer. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2023
at 13:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can, courtesy of mansquito. Pours dark brown. Dark fruit, biscuit, toffee, estery, cinnamon, dried pear, fig juice. Medium body. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2023
at 03:06