Brasserie de la Senne Schieve X-Mas

Schieve X-Mas

 

Brasserie de la Senne in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Winter
Score
7.25
ABV: 8.0% IBU: - Ticks: 16
By popular demand, we are back with a Christmas beer this year! The brilliant and crazy label remains unchanged (thanks, Jean Goovaerts!), but the beer has a new name: the SCHIEVE X-MAS. If you look closely at the label, you’ll understand why. And it also has a new recipe!
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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6.5
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

Tried from Bottle on 23 Dec 2025 at 22:38


7.6
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.

Tried from Draft at Moeder Lambic Fontainas on 12 Dec 2025 at 15:52


8.5
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.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Dec 2025 at 13:47


6.6
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.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2025 at 21:20


7.8
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.

Tried on 05 May 2025 at 15:26


7.5
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.

Tried from Draft on 27 Feb 2025 at 19:26


8

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!

Tried on 16 Feb 2025 at 04:02


7

Tried from Draft on 11 Jan 2025 at 18:01


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Lichtbruin bier met schuim wat niet al te lang blijft staan. Smaak is licht bitter en kruidig met wat hout, een beetje rook en geroosterd brood. Een wat anders maar heel goed kerstbier.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 13:30


7

Botella @Route 66, Avilés. 26/12/2024. Color ambarino corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores caramelo, malta, dulce.

Tried on 27 Dec 2024 at 00:26