Christmas Ale
Marks & Spencer Stores in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Brewed at/by: Great Yorkshire BreweryTraditional Beer - Old Ale Winter Out of Production
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Score
5.14
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A smooth, warming, strong premium ale blended with extracts of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and the festive tang of citrus fruits from the North Yorkshire Cropton Brewery.
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4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle. Pours hazy dark brown and flat as hell, no head to speak of. Aroma is cheap cola, nutmeg and lots of rum. Generic Chirstmas spice to start. Some cheap coke and nutmeg on the finish. Flat and lifeless, bad bottle? Just no palate at all. Sort it out and this could be a nice beer. As it is, it’s pretty shit awful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2010
at 14:56
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled (from random Marks & Spencer, London). Reddish amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruits, spices, lots of fruity bubblegum notes. Flavour is mainly fruity bubblegum along with some slight notes of herbs and spices. Not very pleasant at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2010
at 09:50
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
M&S, Hamilton today, 2009-12-21, Uddingston AR: Rassins & Nuts, traditional Swedish cholcolate (Mararbou) - wow AP: Brick brown cloudy body, white head 1/2 cm over wriped grapes, cinnamon a bit of citrus - not my nor my wife’s cup of tea. Leave the botle for a couple of days so tht botom sedinent can rest
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2009
at 17:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Marks & Spencer. Dark brown colour, off-white head. Aroma is malty, with spices. Cinnamon, nutmeg and clove are well distinctable. Flavour is malty, citric and spicy. Vaguely resembling a doppelbock, and reminds me of Sinterklaas. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2009
at 08:11
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle 50cl. @ [ Chris O’s pre NYE Tasting ].Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, berry, light hoppy, perfume, citrus - lemon, moderate to heavy yeasty, soap, spicy - clove - cinnamon. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20081230]
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2009
at 04:02
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle at Chris o New Year tasting 08/09. Lemony sherberty aroma. Lemon squash and a bit of malt in the flavour. Not great. 43429 2.2/5.0. Re-rate bottle from M&S. Cropton bottles can be a little up and down. Very deep brown with very thin dark beige head.. Cinnamon Christmas cake aroma. It’s like a slice of Christmas cake, very spicy, overly spicy I would say with some nutmeg and clove which is too much for me. Malts in mouth are fine. Still not overly convinced by it, but this was a much better bottle. Still too spicy I think;
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 06:30
2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 4
Overall 1
500ml, bottle conditioned, bb.06.09. Cloudy, red-brown body with a few thin floaters on the surface. Very strange kind of smell and taste. Something seems to have gone terrible wrong making this beverage. Everything is out of balance. Weird aroma of oily berries and nutmeg. Unbalanced blend of sour anise, herbs and nutmeg in a taste profile that is really hard to describe further. A very flat and lifeless drink. The bottle was bought at a Marks & Spencer store in Edinburgh just because of the Christmas label – a great mistake [Tromsø, 27.12.2008].
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2008
at 06:19
2.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
[500ml bottle from M&S - bottle conditioned.] Hazy chestnut in colour, liveless, flat and limp with just a trace of head. Clove and cinnamon aroma, similar flavours,flat, oily and generally unpleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2008
at 13:04