Christmas Angel
Brouwerij Serafijn (prev. Microbrouwerij Achilles) in Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.83
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This hearty amber brew, well-balanced and warming, is the brewer's special celebration of this wonderful season, when the herald angels sing. A Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to all, from Brouwerij Achilles!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330 ml bottle (bb 08/08/12) from a Belgian Christmas Sampler Pack at Bevmo Salinas. Nose is candi sugar, caramel, yeast, and cloves, lightly hazy orange gold with a big, long lasting, heavy lacing, pale yellow head. Flavor is caramel apples, cloves, white pepperiness, and light bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2011
at 18:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
New Beer Distributors, NY 11.2oz ($3.80): Pours a brownish red color with a proper looking head. Aroma is actually quite nice, very sweet and fruity, with some nice yeasts and all that. However, the taste is lacking. It is sweet, but not excessively so. Has a kinda flat spiciness going throughout. Alcohol is sufficiently well covered. Good, but not great and the aroma makes you think that you will be getting a different beer.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2011
at 08:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml. [ Vintage BBF 0910 ]. Clear medium to dark amber yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, moderate to light heavy yeasty, overripped fruit. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, overriped fruit, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101022]
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2010
at 23:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Aroma:humle malt brød citron gær Ud.:gylden klar Skum:hvidt lidt E.smag:sød lidt bitter moderat Krop:medium til fuld For.:cremet Brus:livlig f 75cl @f1fan 22/10-10
Tried
on 08 Nov 2010
at 08:22
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@fonefan, Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is fruits, wooden earth and some spices, alcohol and malts. Pleasant. Flavour is quite simiilar, rather sweet, but still
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2010
at 18:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a clear orangish amber with an off-white head that dissipates quickly. Aroma has sweet notes with candy sugar and caramel clearly present. Also a bit of underlying nutmeg. Flavor is sweet as well with undertones of nutmeg and alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2009
at 20:42
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Huge, fine-yellowish head over deep orange beer, hazy. Dry, spicy, white candi sugar. Bit flowery, and alcohol lurking. Very dry, spicy taste, bit of liquorice. Vague celeri, or other vegetable - even cilandro. Again, suspicion of white candi sugar. Warming up, almonds, and, strangely enough, some hops coming up. Alcoholwarming, meidum bodied, slick, quite carbonated. Good beer, but nothing original to it.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Apr 2009
at 17:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle pours out a cloudy amber topped with a foam head almost 1 mile tall. A nice tast of sweet fruit and some spice. Not to bad. Thanks Jake for letting me have some.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2008
at 19:55
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Murky reddish brown with a huge beige head. Aroma is fruity and warming. The 8% ABD is easily noticable tonight. Sweet fruity and malty notes are second. Tastes muddled with bready malts, yeast, dark fruit, and more warming. It was good, but for whatever reason, I just couldn’t really get into this brew. Seemingly average to me at this point.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2008
at 14:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Rich caramel amber with a big light beige head. Malty, caramel aroma with yeast and spice and slight fruitiness. Caramel malt flavor with yeast, spice, and light citrus. Medium body - high carbonation. Lingering toffee, spice, light citrus. Nice balance and complexity. More peppery phenolic as it warms.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2008
at 12:54