Kerstbier
Brouwerij Slaghmuylder in Ninove, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pale Winter|
Score
5.94
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This special lager is brewed at the end of August, with more malt and extra hops. The hops from our own region (Erembodegem) give the beer a nice bitter aftertaste. During the maturing of more than 2 months, the beer has matured naturally and all aromas have developed. Thanks to the natural saturation, the beer has a very fine pearly carbonation like champagne and a nice, dense and stable foam head. The result is a unique, bottom fermented blond beer that distinguishes itself from the sweet dark Christmas beers.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours a clear golden with a white head. Aroma of grains, slightly fruity, yeasty and some hops. Decent pale ale, but I had better hopes for this one, it’s not what I seek in a Christmas Ale.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2025
at 05:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2024
at 14:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 10
Bottle at beerfestival Essen. A nice christmas pilsner. A slighty orange with almost no head, a pleasent one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:51
Tried
on 01 Nov 2022
at 10:18
6/10
Tried
on 30 Apr 2020
at 14:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Golden color. Clear, but not filtered. Greapefruit overshadows the hops in the aroma. Light flowery hopbitter flavor with grapefruit and a hint of blackcurrant. Very refined flavor, glorious aroma. Delicately balanced. But sadly a rather short finish. Still a very nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
At Kerstbierfestival 2016 , thnx for sharing everyone ! Pours very clear blonde. Smell is malty, lageryeast. Bit funky.Taste is bit sharp, intense lageryeast. Balanced and intense. i really liked this lager !
Tried
on 25 Dec 2016
at 12:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Let’s start off December with Slaghmuylder’s Kerstbier which is a 5.2% Belgian Blonde Christmas beer. It’s a brass color with a thin head and a fruity vinous aroma featuring plums & figs with a sweet bread like malt character. Medium bodied with a sandpaper like carbonation and a dry finish. First you get wine, raisins, plums, some booziness then a dense bready character. The taste that lingers in my mouth is a sweet fruity hit.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2016
at 09:03
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thank you! Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ Kerstbierfestival Essen 2015. Apparently uses a small percentage of corn according to the booklet. A Christmas pilsner is truly an odd thing in Belgium, one of a kind for certain. Clear golden, small white head. Nose is oily, quite metallic, sugar, corn, sweet & oily, touch esters. Taste is oily, metallic, white sugar, sugar, corn,.. Metallic, corn, esters body. Rather dull & not much better than some of the more agreeable pale lagers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2015
at 02:46
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Helder geel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en best goed maar niet echt bijzonder. Niet dat het slecht is maar vreemd dat dit een kerstbier is.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2015
at 07:53