New Belgium Brewing Company Holiday Ale

Holiday Ale

 

New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Fruit Beer Winter
Score
6.85
ABV: 7.5% IBU: - Ticks: 21
Flavors of Cranberry & Spice and Everything Nice

'Tis the season for flavors of cranberry and orange, cinnamon and spice, for everyone naughty and nice!
 

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8.6/10
Tried from Can on 10 Nov 2023 at 17:13

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Deep copper-red body, thick cream head. Aroma of cinnamon, fruit leather, cranberry, and brown sugar. Body like a berry pie minus much of the sweetness, with cranberry, cinnamon, jam, bread crumbs, brown sugar, and orange resins. Crisp.
Tried on 07 Jan 2023 at 15:48

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
12 oz. can from HEB in Boerne, TX. Pours a crystal clear reddish-copper color with a beige head and good retention. Some spots of lacing. Cinnamon and spices aroma. The flavor is supposed to be cranberry and spice, but it's mostly spice with only a hint of cranberry. I love cranberry and I love beer, but I don't love this mix. I would call this a spice/herb/vegetable beer, not a fruit beer. Medium-light body. Light carbonation. Not bitter. The 7.5% ABV is invisible. Okay overall.
Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2022 at 22:24

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Aromas are kind of an odd combination of cranberries, spices, bubble gum and malt. Flavors are somewhat similar to nose, losing most of the bubble gum, mildly tart with a little sweet in the background but also kind of on the bland side. Okay body and carbonation. One and done.
Tried on 27 Dec 2022 at 02:06

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
12oz can pours out amber color topped with a sand head. Nose is Christmas spice notes and some malts. Taste is more of the nice Christmas spice sweet caramel malts.
Tried from Can on 24 Dec 2022 at 19:26

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Red brown with a large fluffy tan head that left decent lacing. Caramel with holiday spices. Long finish. Medium body.
Tried on 20 Dec 2022 at 00:40

4.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.4
Can. Pours a translucent reddish brown color with a medium beige head that has fair retention. When held to a light this is a really nice looking glass. The aroma is mild with indistinct spices, I cant really identify any one spice. The taste on the other had cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and cranberry. The malt base was full and the carbonation was soft. Finished long with lingering nutmeg. Overall: Ok brew, but to me nutmeg in beer comes across as somewhat metallic.
Tried from Can on 02 Dec 2022 at 23:30

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
OK, so NB comes out with a new beer every few hours now? Go figger, they ride the wave until it crashes, and here is another. From a can, it pours slightly darker than pale, yes, a little clear light brown. And, it has a somewhat attractive spice vanilla nose, considering I don't like spiced olfactory holiday brews, this comes across the nose as somewhat doughy, maybe acceptable. It says 7.5% but I think it may be a little less. Different fer sure, it's almost well balanced and is not really getting on my nerves. Yes, seriously this is finally a holiday brew that is not offensive. First off, I don't enjoy these seriously spiced holiday brew concoctions; I find this a little better than most of the domestic varieties. It's like the tube's white punks on dope, heheh. I can't even detect the cranberry, but maybe it helps with the overall feel of things. Yeah, almost a barely detectable vanilla on the nose and almost enjoyable but not quite, vanilla on the palate, but it's never in yer face. In the end I think it's a good, spiced brew, which is almost tolerable and carries a decent ABV to help you over the edge. Man, I'm thinking I almost enjoy this, but I don't! LoL.
Tried from Can on 02 Dec 2022 at 21:16

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
12 ounce can from Woodman's Appleton, 12/1/22. Clear dark red, large tan head, average retention. Aroma of cranberry, nuts, nutmeg. Taste is vanilla, coconut, toast (all that unexpected), cranberry, cinnamon. Tad bit thin. It's weird but it's nice.
Tried from Can on 02 Dec 2022 at 02:53

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 ounce can. Garnet colored pour. Large, dense beige head is enduring. Fragrant, toasted malt aroma hints at cranberry and cinnamon. Flavor has notes of cinnamon, orange zest, cranberry and allspice. Quite tasty and easy drinking.
Tried from Can on 23 Nov 2022 at 04:18