5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Orange-apple malt. Golden yellow color with giant white head. Orange malt flavor. Light grassy hops finish. Fruity and quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2008
at 14:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Medium offwhite head. Copper body with light carbonation. Fruity, lemony aroma with notes of lime. Sweetish fruity lemony taste, again with a kind of lime background. Clean, medium mouthfeel. Dry malty caramelly aftertaste dominated by the same lemon/lime character. Not terribly complex, and extremely unusual, but quite OK. This is really the beer Corona should have been. What the association with Christmas could possibly be I really couldn’t say. (0.65l bottle from the wine monopoly.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2008
at 15:27
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Dark golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is dry, sweet, yeast. Flavour is dry, sweet, yeast, citrus, spices. Not a christmas beer, but i like it in a way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2008
at 06:57
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle 0,65l. Golden colored. A shortlived creamy head. Aroma of berries. The flavor is dominated by sweet fruit and berries. Sourish bitter finish. No Christmas feeling at all. Label design better than the content.KI=4
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2008
at 14:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home ... Thanks to Stephen (gowdy)(well probably his wife) for this ... copper ... sweet ... quite a bitt of spice ... little caramel malt ... little bit of lemon fruitness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2008
at 11:51
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
650ml bottle. Clear golden body with intensive carbonation and a small off/white head. The aroma is vague malty and a bit perfumed (spices?), don’t like that smell. Flavor is quite mild malty with some kind of perfumed bitterness. Watery body and not well-balanced, a bit to thin and sweet. Forget the Christmas stash, the world has room for a wider idea of a suitable beer for the season than Norwegians. As a Bière de Garde I find this more ordinary and with a lack of the flavors I expect compared with others I have sampled. To ordinary and weak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2008
at 12:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of yngwie. Clear, amber golden with a rough, off-white head. Lightly sweet aroma of roasted malt. Medium body with sweetish, roasted malt and a dry, hoppy finish. Obviously bottom fermented, more of a Bock really. 191207
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2007
at 16:53
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of malt and dusty hops. The flavor is sweet malty with light notes of caramel. I find it boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2007
at 19:45
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, 65cl. Nice, clear, deep golden body with a good carbonation and a medium-sized, dense, off-white head. The aroma is nice, citrusy and fruity. A bit on the artificial side though, but nice. There’s some malty notes as well. The flavor isn’t at the same level. It’s even more artificial, citrusy, malty-sweet and a little spicy. Medium to full, slightly sticky mouthfeel. It has a long finish with the same citrusy and fruity, artificial flavor, a good bitterness and some spicyness in the far back. Not sure how much I like it. I’m sure that I don’t like it as a Christmas beer though. It’s quaffable in a way, but too sweet and artificial. (071122)
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2007
at 14:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
650 ml green glass bottle, entirely covered in very "christmasy" plastic foil. Courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Also available in Norway at Vinmonopolet, bestillingsutvalget. ABV is 5.8%. Clear and deep golden colour, large and lasting head. Fruity and spicy aroma with notes of farm kitchen, quite nice. The flavour has some of the "spritziness" of other bières-de-garde, but is sweeter, with caramel. Artificial "aroma" (whatever that may be) has been added, hmmm ... That is probably what I get some candy / pear drops notes from. Moderate hops in the finish. Not your typical Christmas beer, but drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2007
at 16:27