Merry Christmas & Happy New Year (Our Special Ale) (2000)
(Batch of Our Special Ale (2001 and earlier))
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular Out of Production|
Score
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7/10
Tried
on 12 Sep 2018
at 09:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2000 bottle from Frumpty! 26 on cap! Nose of raisin pie like my Mom used to bake for my Dad and I with the fruit and spices; Opaque brown with a small cinnamon head, but it doesn’t last long; flavor of dates, caramel, spices, and some slight oxidized cardboard; Not bad for a seven year old beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2007
at 13:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
2000. A dark brown beer. Medium bitter hops in the aroma and flavor. Lightly spiced with a flavor of sweet malt and light fruit. This beer aged very well.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2006
at 20:10
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
I bought a case of this back in 2000. Somehow a bottle managed to get into my Parent’s liquor cabinet and sat there forgotten all these years. So I put it in the fridge this weekend to see how it had held up. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with a large dark brown head. The aroma is spicy and has a strong spruce presence. The flavor is bitter and spicy with spruce as the main flavor element. The beer is medium bodied and has a sweet sprucy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2005
at 18:02
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
So everyone else is talking about the 2001 and I'm just getting to the 2000. Oh well, I didn't think too highly of this particular vintage - excessive ginger, burnt raisins, kind of thin.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2001
at 20:02