Christmas Ale
St. Peter's Brewery in Bungay, Suffolk, England 🏴
Strong Ale Winter|
Score
6.64
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A copper coloured, smooth, fruity, and full-bodied ale. Aromas of toffee and caramel leading to rich and smooth flavours of Christmas fruits and spices – the perfect companion for Christmas savouries, sweets, and snacks. Serve at room temperature or slightly chilled.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
0.5 l bottle from 'Brauart', best before April 2026. Clear, deep ruby with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, off-white head. Sweetish-malty, gently fruity and a little herbal-spicy aroma of orange jam, strawberry, toffee and a touch of gingerbread. Quite sweet, malty, moderately bitter, gently fruity and a little herbal-spicy taste of orange jam, strawberry, plum, cinnamon, gingerbread, some toffee and traces of chocolate, followed by a short, moderately bitter, minimally dry finish. Medium to full body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Pleasant Christmas ale, moreish and saturating, very well-balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
from Brauart (Britische Biere)
on 14 Dec 2025
at 18:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 6.5
Clear copper colour with a nice ivory-coloured head. Caramel, toast, burnt sugar, toffee, pleasant esters, floral, spicy & earthy notes. Somewhat rusty on nose. Medium dry to light sweet. light to medium hop bitterness. Dry ending. Dense texture. Nice pedigree stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2025
at 08:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
As I can't seem to upload my previous ratings from another site I'm starting again and rating everything.
Good pour but perhaps a bit cold from being stored in my garage. I love this beer, hops, malt, spice and rich fruit. A proper English strong ale.
Good pour but perhaps a bit cold from being stored in my garage. I love this beer, hops, malt, spice and rich fruit. A proper English strong ale.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2025
at 18:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours a wonderful deep red, with fine whitish foam. Aroma is intensely malty, caramel. Body is average, with limited carbonation. Taste is medium-high sweet, but not too redundant in the final, which remains average in intensity.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2024
at 18:23
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2023
at 22:18
7/10
Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a deep copper colour with a large thick foamy beige head. Aromas of caramel, dark fruits and Christmas spice. Taste has toffee, caramel and more Christmas spices. Slightly sweet finish. Full body, low carbonation and smooth slightly oily mouthfeel. Nice and Christmasy beer. I think i slightly prefer their Winter Ale though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2022
at 22:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are caramel, fruits, hops, spices, malt, toffee and has a nice bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2022
at 15:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a caramel orange with a frothy beige colored head. Aroma is rich malty, caramel, toffee, bready, alcohol. Taste is rich malty, bready, caramel, some spices, toffee, boosty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2022
at 17:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Aus der Flasche im 2022-03 getrunken. Dieses dunkel braune Ale braucht etwas Temperatur, um seinen maligen Charakter zu zeigen. Es ist recht süßig, wil der Körper recht verhalten ist.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2022
at 01:24
6/10
Great malty and slightly fruity cherry style beginning. Malty on the tongue, fruity with a dry body. Grain an caramel, fruit, very dry with a grainy malty back. Caramel, dried plums, fruit. Nice deep.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2021
at 17:43