Bristol Brewing Company Christmas Ale

Christmas Ale

 

Bristol Brewing Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Winter
Score
6.72
ABV: 6.4% IBU: - Ticks: 6
We brew this beer annually to celebrate the festive season. Each year we change the spices used in the beer to showcase new ideas. This season we used a combination of star anise, cardamon, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and love to put cheery winter carnival in every pint.
 

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7.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at the brewery. Pours a clear, reddish-brown color, with a big, frothy, off-white head. The aroma is nutmeg, pumpernickel, walnut, and peat. Sweet and malty, with a light, savory bitterness. Medium body, dusty, and crisp. Nicely made and enjoyable.

Tried from Draft on 09 Dec 2024 at 04:38


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22oz bottle picked up at Supermarket liquors
Pours clear dark mahogany with a small beige head and some lacing. Aroma of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Taste is sweet malts, cinnamon, ginger and herbal bitterness
A good Christmas ale, lots of aroma but the taste is kind of muttled together.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2014 at 21:32


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle thanks to ratman. Pours with a clear deep bronze hued body with a tan head. Aromas are of gingerbread, nutty cookie, biscuity malt, eugenol, cinnamon and a lot of spice. Flavors are lightly metallic, thin, bitter, spicy tannin, gingerbread, spice, clove and nutmeg. Very thin bodied and spicy, lively bubbles.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2013 at 19:57


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared by Irishboy. Pours darkly ruddy with little or no head. Aroma is spicy - but perhaps more towards pumpkin pie than Xmas. Med + body. Flavor is so pie spice. It works, but it’s a rather different Xmas ale. Judged without regard to season, it’s a nice spiced ale.

Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2013 at 13:20


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

Bomber from Ratman!!! Nose is pumpkin pie, with all the cardamon, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger even lacking the pumpkin. Cherry brown with a small beige head. Flavor is very spicy with a light bitterness.

Tried on 07 May 2013 at 17:03


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bomber - pours a clear amber - nose is full of cardamom, cinnamon, ginger/gingerbread - medium bodied, full carbonation - fairly dry and Biscuity, which is a relief, since the label says it is made with molasses - cardamom is showcased well up front - the tail end is spicy ginger and cinnamon - fairly crisp maltiness throughout - a solid Christmas brew.

Tried on 14 Dec 2011 at 19:30