Christmas Pudding Ale

Very slight plumaroma, or is it my nose that is failing. Raisin, nutmeg, cakedough, plums and porto flavors, in fact the flavor of a christmas pudding, even the brandy flavor is present.

Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

500 ml bottle sampled in 2008. Clear reddish amber body with a small, dense, beige head. Aroma has malt, dry fruit and fig. Flavor is sweet malt, dry fruit, nuts and very little bitterness. Medium body and aftertaste. Nice idea with a rather boring result.

Best before 30th Sep 2009, it was reviewed and drank on 2nd Oct 2009: two days late. Poured into a vase shaped pint glass (Old Speckled Hen badged). Slightly chilled, as asked for on the label. A good foaming off-cream coloured head sat on top of a dark amber, light brown body. The beer was clear, no hint of a cloudiness or haze. The head sadly fell away to a thin covering very quickly. The smell was low key for a Christmas Pudding, even when it warmed the beer gave off very little, some plums and raisins just about came into play. Pleasant more than exciting taste, again not much Christmas Pudding to be found, the 5.5% alcohol doesn’t come through with any great authority either. A weak spicey feel as the beer warmed, cloves and cinnamon perhaps? Not what I was expecting, but overal, not bad at all.

1st December 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! Dark brown beer - clear. Crisp and refreshing but nothing puddingy going on here! There is distinct coconut - not too sweet. Decent.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty and slightly sweetish spicy caramel aroma. Sweetish malty caramel and toffee flavor. Has a sweetish malty caramel spicy finish.

50 cl bottle. Brown body with off-white head. Flavour is malt, caramel, dry and spicy.

Bottle. Copper colour with a beige head. Aroma is dried fruits, caramel. Flavour is sweet, malt, hop, dried fruits, caramel. Medium body. OK beer.