Holiday Spice
Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.62
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Timed to coincide with the holiday season, a very special lager is brewed with honey, oranges, and spices. This beer uses two pounds of honey per pound of malt in its brew, making it an exceptional fortified holiday specialty beer which will keep for years. The spices and hops balance the sweetness of the honey and malt to give this lightly hopped beer its perfect flavor.
Alcohol ABV varies from 9.5% to 11% each year
Alcohol ABV varies from 9.5% to 11% each year
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 12 oz bottle shared at Iona in Arlington. Pours a cloudy amber with a feint off white head. Fruit and pie spice aroma. Notes if caramel with cinnamon and cloves. Smooth spice finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2013
at 17:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 12/23/12, 2012 Bottle (Bottled 11/13/12)
Aroma: The nose is holiday spice, cinnamon, brown sugar, some gingerbread, toffee, and honey
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish-brown color with a small beige head and mild lace
Flavor: It tastes rather sweet, with a malty presence and most of the same spice notes as the nose
Palate: The body is medium, with average-plus carbonation, and a lightly dry, tingly finish
Overall Impression: This is a pretty decent holiday spice beer. I really couldn't find a ton to criticize here, but it is a bit sweet for my tastes. Overall though, there's a nice spice component, some good sweetness, and just a little bit of hops to keep it from getting way too sweet. It kind of has a wheat wine-type sweetness/booziness, though the alcohol is well-hidden. Interesting stuff for sure.
Aroma: The nose is holiday spice, cinnamon, brown sugar, some gingerbread, toffee, and honey
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish-brown color with a small beige head and mild lace
Flavor: It tastes rather sweet, with a malty presence and most of the same spice notes as the nose
Palate: The body is medium, with average-plus carbonation, and a lightly dry, tingly finish
Overall Impression: This is a pretty decent holiday spice beer. I really couldn't find a ton to criticize here, but it is a bit sweet for my tastes. Overall though, there's a nice spice component, some good sweetness, and just a little bit of hops to keep it from getting way too sweet. It kind of has a wheat wine-type sweetness/booziness, though the alcohol is well-hidden. Interesting stuff for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2012
at 17:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle-pours a rich tan head with copper color. Aroma is spice, sweet medium malt-toffee. Taste is spice hops, sweet medium malt-toffee/some cocoa, alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2011
at 06:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle - Pours dark brown with a small, rapidly fading head. The aroma is mainly spice with nutmeg and other winter spices present. The sweet flavor has tons of spice including cinnamon and nutmeg to go with the malt. Hop presence is just enough to give some balance. I never would have guessed the abv on this one. Solid brew though not a great one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2011
at 17:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
2007 vintage. I enjoyed this at Delilah’s 12th annual Winter Beer Tasting in Chicago, IL. Appearance cloudy gold with a rich head. Aroma of cinnamon and holiday spices. Taste kicks you with cinnamon and coriander, sweet, too much with spices though. Unique and good, but just a little too much with the spices.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2010
at 09:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pour is a dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is very nice. Lots of clove, nutmeg and allspice hit you. Flavor is at first very sweet and then the spice of the aroma hits you. Finish has some molasses and alcohol. I did not know this beer was 9.5% since it did not say anything on the label. I checked the web site and this years version is 11%! The brewer may want to let a guy know. Still this is a very spiced out winter warmer. Almost overly spiced really.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2010
at 18:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Spiced fruitcake aroma. Foggy brown-amber color, head fades aways fast. Woah, big spicy alcohol taste reminiscent of some cinnamon nutmeg Xmas liquor concoction. Heavy duty cinnamon-clove taste. A rugged meady Doppelbock. I somewhat dig it for it’s Wassail-like qualities, but I can’t really say this is world class by any means. Big, outclassing most of it’s other Lakefront peers, this is a respectable beer
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2009
at 01:36
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Captain Cougar. Thanks once more! Pours a dark reddish amber with a decent tan head. Lots of xmas spice aroma - reminds of mincemeat. Full bodied with mild carbonation. Flavor is dark fruit, xmas spice and heavy malt. Heat is present but rather submerged in all the flavors. This one gives xmas ales some sturdy competition. Finish is just a complexity of flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2009
at 20:53
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Amber coloured body with a strong brown highlight. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel and very little else. Light-bodied; Short taste of malt, concord grapes and perhaps a mild hoppiness. Aftertaste shows more of the same, with more cardboard than malt. Overall, don’t waste your time or money trying this one - it just isn’t worht it. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 31 December 2006.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2009
at 23:25
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bright dark amber colour. The aroma is a little chemically - I know it’s just clove, ginger and orange peel but that’s how it comes off to me. Assertive palate - very heavy on the ginger and clove. Orangey accents. Hardly any balancing malts but what there is is caramelly. Unbalanced, and I’m not really vibing off these flavours.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2008
at 15:41