Great Lakes Brewing Christmas Ale

Christmas Ale

 

Great Lakes Brewing in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Winter
Score
6.80
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 30 Ticks: 102
Do not open ‘til Christmas? Whoever coined that phrase obviously hasn’t tasted Christmas Ale’s fresh honey, cinnamon, and ginger flavors.
 

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5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Light brown colour with lasting thin head. Aroma is a bit soapy (cardamom?) and clovey. Sweet spices. Clove, maybe nutmeg and cinnamon. Touch of citrus in the background. Fortunately not very strong with spices but far away from my taste preference.
Tried on 27 Dec 2023 at 17:24

8.4/10
Gingerbread, cinnamon, allspice, honey and malty. Nice Christmas flavour.
Tried from Can on 26 Dec 2023 at 22:07

7/10
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Tried from Can on 26 Dec 2023 at 17:02

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
On tap at the Grand Delancey. Pours copper. Cinnamon, biscuit, toffee, light clove. Kinda thin body. Fine.
Tried from Draft on 25 Dec 2023 at 01:33

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Door no. 24 of the Advent calendar. Clear copper in the glass, small short living head. Grainy carmel with fruity background on the nose. Taste starts grainy, dry malt with a lot of herbal cough drops, some pumpkin. Sweet elements in the background. Not my favourite stuff ...
Tried on 24 Dec 2023 at 22:42

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
355 ml can from Beer Republic advent calendar. Clear, dark amber colour with a thin, off-white head. Sweet aroma with caramel malts, cinnamon, ginger, and herbal sweetness. The taste is light sweet. Medium body. Slightly drying spiced finish. I'm really not into spiced beers. Maybe this is more palatable for the American audience?
Tried from Can on 21 Dec 2023 at 21:25

6.4/10
Tried from Draft on 20 Dec 2023 at 23:32

6/10
BR#24. Magus, linnaselline, vürtsine, kaneel, vesine. Ok.
Tried on 12 Nov 2023 at 02:17

7/10
Tried on 02 Nov 2023 at 23:45

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at Great Lakes, pours a clear dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings outs lots of bready malt and resinous hops. Flavour is dry and malty, with lots of bready malt, resinous hops, and dry toasted caramel. Not really getting any Christmas spices. Bready and resinous, with a bone dry finish. Decent.
Tried from Draft on 06 Nov 2022 at 04:19