8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Another on point Japaneee Christmas beer.
Vertere Christmas Beer 2025: Barley Wine w Spice Vanilla 10%
This ruddy brown brew has fluffy beige foam that didn’t linger nor leave much lacing behind.
Full bodied and smooth with quite a bit of boozy heat and warmth. The spicing is a bit more full on and less balanced than the KBC Christmas ale though this is still really solid.
Vertere Christmas Beer 2025: Barley Wine w Spice Vanilla 10%
This ruddy brown brew has fluffy beige foam that didn’t linger nor leave much lacing behind.
Full bodied and smooth with quite a bit of boozy heat and warmth. The spicing is a bit more full on and less balanced than the KBC Christmas ale though this is still really solid.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2025
at 11:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Christmas is exactly a week away so I’m cracking of the two Christmas releases from Vertere.
Vertere Christmas Beer 2025
Grisette w Honey Basil 4.5%
It’s a lovely matte gold with thick eggshell white foam which doesn’t last all that long. The aroma is a sulfury saison. It’s medium bodied with a lightly spritzy carbonation.
Honestly at first, I found it a bit humdrum but it grew on me and by the end I could really get the basil and saison notes.
Pretty good.
Vertere Christmas Beer 2025
Grisette w Honey Basil 4.5%
It’s a lovely matte gold with thick eggshell white foam which doesn’t last all that long. The aroma is a sulfury saison. It’s medium bodied with a lightly spritzy carbonation.
Honestly at first, I found it a bit humdrum but it grew on me and by the end I could really get the basil and saison notes.
Pretty good.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2025
at 15:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sound, well rounded, roast, cocoa, ash, burnt pine. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2025
at 19:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2025
at 19:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at craft beer junction tasting. 23/07/2025. A dark brown coloured pour with a decent khaki head. Aroma is brown sugars pine, resin, bark. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, earthy bark resin, cocoa. Palate is semi sweet oily, moderate carbonation.
Decent.
Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2025
at 10:40
6.2/10
Not sure what’s going on here. I love sea buckthorn. But overly sweet with an odd cinnamon-ish spice. LCI
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2025
at 21:42
7.6/10
Grapefruit pith, low creaminess, good backbone
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jul 2025
at 21:26
7/10
#japan #porter trekdrop en chocolade met koffie en melk.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2025
at 17:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Coconut cream, mangoes and lime in the nose. Palate is a bit flat, excellent juiciness but mouthfeel is meh. Still I like
Tried
on 09 Jun 2025
at 13:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Medium amber color. Big cinnamon and nutmeg sweet malty nose. Sweet palate. Very smooth. Excellent spice. Super well pu Perry. Superb
Tried
on 28 May 2025
at 04:57