Schieve X-Mas
Brasserie de la Senne in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Winter|
Score
7.25
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As you know, we like to test the limits while developing a Christmas beer. For the Schieve X-Mas we have been playing with the characteristics of the style, but without the typical syrupy and heavily spiced features.
The foam of the Schieve X-Mas is beige and dense. Its color is copper, with appetizing red highlights. Its aroma immediately presents a nice balance between malt and hops. On the palate, you’ll find delicious flavors of caramel, biscuit, and pudding, complemented by notes of candied fruits, mandarin, bitter orange, and licorice (all this without using a single gram of spices or fruits!). It has a beautiful bitterness that lingers in the mouth, with a dry and light finish. The beer is warming, but not overly boozy.
A perfect beer to end autumn and start winter on the right foot!
It has an alcohol content of 8% and is available in very limited quantities, both in bottles and on tap.
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madmitch76 (40782) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
24th January 2026
Just a very light haze on this deepish amber beer, good bubbly pale tan head. Airy smooth palate, decent fine minerally carbonation comes through on the back end. Light smooth malts, a pleasant cream and caramel sweetness. Soft estery fruits, ripe fruits and a mild spice. A cooling pine rides over the top. A kinda baked cinnamon pie thing going on, not really apple but more of a general orchard fruits pie. Airy finish emphasises the esters. A layered and pretty tasty affair, if the esters could be dialled down a bit, for me, it would be a superior brew
rumore (5582) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from AbeerVinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours dark amber, with fine whitish foam. Aroma is noticeably spiced, but also malty. Body is average, with a good carbonation. Taste is fairly bitter, with some maltiness behind. Final is average in intensity, a little longer than usual.
jamaty (3452) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Ambar cobriza. Abundante espuma de buen tamaño y retención. Aroma malteado notas frutales, melocotón. Buen cuerpo, licórico, notas dulces, notas frutales. Notas especiadas. Caramelo sobre todo. Potente
Biruski (5052) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Medium amber with a tall beige head. Candied fruits, grassy, a bit of spice, dark malts, citrus. Medium bodied. Pops in a festive way while the malts drive the warmth. A good one.
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle at Pigs Ear BF 2025. Hazy copper red dirty. Lasting cream head. Lovely Christmas beer. Some spice some candied fruit some light fruit cake. Some bitterness on the finish. Another winner from De La Senne. Its excellent
Put a smile on my face. Warming Christmassy autumnal fruits. Cake. Lovely.
Tommann (7675) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 4 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle. Pours reddy brown with a large head. Aroma is Ribena, bread, dark berries and candy sugars. Taste is sweet to start, with a yeasty bready finish. Dark berries on the aftertaste.
allmyvinyl (21224) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Growler fill from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours clear mahogany with a thin white head. Aromas of bready malts, grass and dried mixed peel. Taste is more of the same, edging towards Christmas cake. Dry finish. Warming.
Gerbeer (8336) reviewed Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap
Pours a bright mahogany color with moderate head
Aromas of bready malts, grass and dried fruit. Flavors follow same but take on more Xmas cake fruit and bread crust near the finish. Smooth. Quite nice.
Very nice. Spicy malt, ginger, bit fruity, wanting, feels a little boozy. Touch of Christmas cake. The spice keeps coming back to me though. It’s nice!
MusingAnorak (11821) ticked Schieve X-Mas from Brasserie de la Senne 1 year ago