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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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught at MBCC. Red Session. Cloudy brown coloured body, filmy-layer, scattered lacing. Caramel and dried fruits on the nose. Blended taste of caramel, nuts and marmalade offset by a mid-dry, bittersweet ending. Fine bodied. Decent stuff. (Copenhagen 13.05.2017).
Tried
on 07 Jun 2017
at 02:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
MBCC. Hazy amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, nutty and light spicy. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. 130517
Tried
on 04 Jun 2017
at 09:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
[5/13/17] Draught at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017. Red session. Amber. Malt, caramel, some fruitiness, sweet.
Tried
on 29 May 2017
at 19:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at cbc17 deep brown... Thin white lacing.. Soft sweet toffee fruit nose... Caramel toffee fruit
Tried
on 21 May 2017
at 08:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @MBCC2017, Red Session. Clear brown, offwhite head. Caramely, hoppy aroma. Nutty, caramely flavour, alc warmth and light hoppy bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2017
at 02:15
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration 2017, Red Session. Fast klare orange goldene Farbe. Geruch nach Karamell, mild röstmalzig. Geschmack ist kräftig malzig, karamellig, nussig.
Tried
on 17 May 2017
at 13:40
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from bottle 10/19/16 reddish brown with a thin tan head and some lacing. Aromas of caramel malt bread and spices. Taste is sweet caramel with notes of lingering spices.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2016
at 20:37
6/10
Tried
on 21 Dec 2016
at 15:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 8
Tap at Draught 55, auburn colored beverage. Nose is light spice and dark fruit. Taste sof cherry, fig, Christmas spice, caramel, cola. Very light bodied. Hides abv welll. Not very impressive overall
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Dec 2016
at 19:28
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours a slightly hazy copper from a bottle. Biscuity caramel aroma and flavor, big mouthfeel and very sweet. Okay beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2016
at 22:54