Christmas Ale Special 2006
Birra del Borgo in Borgorose (RI), Lazio, Italy 🇮🇹
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Special Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. A gusher when opened. A murky orange beer with lots of sediment floating around under a lazing tan head with small specks of sediment. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of oranges and caramel, but also a light plastic note. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of spices, caramel, and oranges, leading to a dry spicy finish, the spices include cinnamon and cloves. Drunk a month prior to the best before date - should probably have a shorter best before date on it, since I think the gushing is due to too much refermentation in the bottle.
fonefan (84235) reviewed Christmas Ale Special 2006 from Birra del Borgo 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Unclear light to medium amber color with a huge, frothy, excellent lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, hay, moderate to heavy hoppy, grass, peper, spices, pepper. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, and moderate bitter with a long to average duration, and a nice dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is lively to soft. (171107)
yespr (55607) reviewed Christmas Ale Special 2006 from Birra del Borgo 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle bought in Tivoli gardens. Pours amber with a light brown head. Aroma of spices, roasted/caramel malt. Flavour is sweet, somewhat fruity and spicy/herbal. Dry finish. Overall an enjoying Christmas brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is hop, cellar notes, fruit. Flavour is sweet, hop, cellar notes. Mild and easy drinkable.
yngwie (24083) reviewed Christmas Ale Special 2006 from Birra del Borgo 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled, 75cl. Amber, with lots of micro-floaties and a nice beige head. Roasted, spiced, malty, sweet aroma with caramel. The flavor and finish is more on the hoppy side, with spicyness and caramel as well. It has a medium to full body. Nice italian!. (061229
MiP (20341) reviewed Christmas Ale Special 2006 from Birra del Borgo 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught. Weak hay aroma. Very cloudy red/brown colour, small head. Solid, creamy mouthfeel. OK flavour, yeasty and malty. Nicely balanced with pepper notes and aroma hoppiness. Unfortunately finishes with a rubbery feeling.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750 ml bottle. Reddish with floaters and a beige head. Hoppy aroma. Really nice, harmonic flavor. Hops and spices with a sweet and malty finish. A beer with a true warming Christmas feeling.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 75 cl) Clear, orangey brown with a creamy, beige head. Lightly spicy, sweetish caramel nose. Quite full-bodied with sweetish malty and lightly medicinal, herbal accents with a distinct, underlying sweetness. Ends fairly dry though. 281006