Holiday Ale
Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Winter|
Score
6.50
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Holiday Ale is a Biere de Noel, an offshoot of the Biere de Garde style. Traditionally this style was made by just a handful of small farmhouse breweries in France during the few weeks leading up to Christmas. It has a deep malt flavor with notes of treacle, toasted malt, and caramel. The malt character is accented by a mild herbal presence of French Strisselspalt and Aramis hops.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Orange brown pour. Malt nose. Orange, spice, malt, and nutty taste. Nut and bread finish
Tried
on 13 Nov 2019
at 05:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Brown bread, caramel, cardamom nose. Clear bronze, medium yellow head. Caramel, cardamom, cake. Full body, easy carbonation.
Tried
on 13 Nov 2019
at 05:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
To paraphrase another RBian, you wrote the book on this style, perhaps you need to return to it. Dirty, grimy, earthy, medicinal-herbal malts dominate. Poor malt structure.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2019
at 04:09
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Bottle from JRs. Pour is clear orange brown with a big creamy foamy head. Smells fresh, a little malty and chlorinated. First let me say this is not a biere degarde, its actually a spiced veggie some what holiday beer. Taste is quite malty with a tad of spices added to it. Yes, in the middle it gets a little more spice but then in the end it mellows. Goes malty towards the finish. Not as rude as many spiced holiday ales but it is in the border of rudeness I would have expected. To say this is in the same style as Beaver Biere de Garde, Beaver French Teamaker De Garde, Jolly Pumpkin Bière de Mars, Beaver French Strisselspalt,or even Off Color Le Woof, is freaking stupid, its not those kinds of degardes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2019
at 19:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
$2.80 bottle, Wine Warehouse. Pours amber with a small beige head. Aroma is fruity, yeasty, caramel. Flavor is caramel, fruitcake, nuts, brown leaf, light back end spice that actually gets stronger in the aftertaste. Decent, enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2018
at 23:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear amber with a thin white head. Aromas of toffee and caramel malts, faint spice. Taste is a bit thin, sweet caramel and more light spice. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2018
at 13:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ MBCC '17 [ Red Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2017, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Two Roads Holiday Ale ].Clear medium amber colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, light caramelized malt - caramle. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, caramel, pale malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170513] 7-3-6-3-14
Tried
on 31 Jan 2018
at 18:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines Comely Bank. Appearance - deep amber to copper. Nice fluffy head. Nose - pecan, chewy nut thing. Praline, but more savoury. Taste - more chewy toffee and hazelnuts this time. It's a Snickers. Palate - creamy medium body. Fairly balanced on the finish in terms of sweetness and bitterness. Overall - has elements of Scotch ale and Belgian Dubbel. I do like this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2017
at 15:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught @ MBCC 2017. Pours brown with an offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, grain, light spice, hay. Flavor is sweet, malt, caramel yeast, hay. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet finish. 130517
Tried
on 24 Sep 2017
at 06:14
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
MBCC. Dark brown with small tan head. Aroma is malt, cocoa, toasted and a little burned caramel. Flavour is malt, fruit, toasted, little burned caramel and sweet.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2017
at 13:16