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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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden colour, good frothy white head, recedes slowly, good lacing. Aroma malty, corn, grass. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, hint of citrus, Soft sweetbitter finish, metallic and herbal notes, medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Not what you expect from a xmas beer but a decent lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2015
at 11:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Very unusual Christmas beer since this is not a spiced Scotch but a ’pils’ (pale lager), but then, if you come to think of it, Stella Artois once began as a Christmas beer too - so this one too refers to a forgotten time when pale lager overwhelmed Belgian beer culture even in Christmas versions. I agree with Tim Webb that this is one of the better Belgian lagers, with a deep yellow golden colour and an honest malt profile; corn has been added for the colour, but does not disturb, a first for me in pale lagers.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2014
at 11:36
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
33cl bottle from Speciaalbier, Leiden Thin white head. Clear golden pouir. A crap Xmas beer. Not herbal, not dark. Why do they call this an Xmas beer???
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2014
at 11:11
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 6
Goldenes Bier mit geringer Schaumkrone. Geruch malzig, grasig, blumig. Geschmack malzig, fruchtig muffig, grasig, blumig.
Tried
on 11 May 2014
at 08:31
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Licht gouden, ja blijkbaar zijn niet alle kerstbieren donker, helder met minimale witte kraag. Aroma is zoetig en caramel moutigheid. De smaken zijn matig zoet, redelijk bitter, licht van sterkte, stevig moutig maar dan met name pilsmoutig, mais. Het zijn iig erg goedkope smaken in de mond en bovendien ook nog metalig. Lichte body, dun maar totale ervaring was Niet lekker !! --- Beer merged from original tick of Slaghmuylder’s Kerstbier on 18 May 2018 at 09:26 - Score: 4
Tried
on 28 Dec 2013
at 10:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled @ Kerstbierfestival Essen 2013. Clear golden color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste are quite crisp, malts, hayish, lightly bitter. Average body and carbonation.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2013
at 13:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Flasche von Bierzwerg.de (33 cl). - Keksartig-malzsüßer Antrunk, gefolgt von etwas penetranter, obwohl nicht allzu kräftiger Hopfennote mit deutlicher Bittere. Etwas wäßrig. Im Hintergrund blasse zitrusähnliche Aromen. Unangenehmer Beigeschmack, vielleicht vom enthaltenen Mais. - Kein großer Genuß und erst recht nicht das, was man sich unter einem belgischen Weihnachtsbier vorstellt.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2013
at 02:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
330ml bottle. Clear pale golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Hoppy aroma with cautious hints of spice and herbs in the background. Taste is initially slightly watery and minimally strawy, has notes of hay, hints of cooked vegetables, later with a nice herbal note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2013
at 15:50
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle from bierzwerg.de. Hazy light golden color with small white head. Light malty aroma. Taste, malt, hints of citrus, very light bitterness in background. Where is Christmas in this beer?
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2012
at 12:56
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
@ Kerstbierfestival, Essen. Very good pilsener. Starts a bit sweet but nice body and a bitter finish. Refreshing.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2012
at 12:00