Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Garnet highlights are found in this brown brew that has a decent mocha colored head. The aroma is typically Belgian with yeast, malt, fruit and caramel coming to play. The flavor follows the aroma with a smooth and warming palate that finishes dry. Not bad.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Mid-brown with rich head. Mild and honeyish with soft, livley mouthfeel. Fairly dry with a bit of caramel. Gentle, complex and well balanced.
diabel (1874) reviewed Christmas Ale from Brouwerij Corsendonk 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Red, brownish colour, slightly brownish head. A veray spicy and also bit malty aroma. Dito, but very strong flavour. Malty aftertaste.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Christmas Ale from Brouwerij Corsendonk 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Very dark brown with dull red shine; dense creamy, dark cream-coloured head, slowly reducing to rim. Nose with chalk, brown bread, molasses, dark malt. Some sweet chocolate and mint, as After Eights. very bitter initial taste, burnt matter, sulphur, bakelite; sweet main taste that has also something definitely salty, resulting in a taste that has some unpleasant shrimplike connotations. Quite carbonated, at the edge of fizziness, gives a sourish edge. Well bodied, warming. A beer which has bitterness, sweetness, acidity AND salinity in it, ought to be THE complex beer of the month. Alas, it's so unbalanced I can hardly finish it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Gushing to creamy, absurdly huge head; brown beer with orange shine, clear. Nose of molasses, brown sugar, nutty. Nutty taste, too, very sweet, sugary, faint wood notes; harsh, unpleasant bitter finish. Very high carbonation, making the beer fizzy at the edge of sourish. Very poor beer, IMO. Forced, crude aromas and flavours.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cloudy golden, high carbonation, but small head - inviting aroma of apples, pears and candy (mostly cotton candy, believe it or not) - very light, and quite champaign-like - mildly sweet, some candies, light fruits, yeastiness, a hint of smokiness - the amount of hops in the flavor of this one throws me a bit - I'm not used to them so much in this style - due to this, I think lovers of this beer would really like Uitzet Tripel (also quite hoppy) - this is decent, but there are many belgian tripels I would pick before it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Somewhat hazy golden bronze color with a rich head. Fruity yeast-aroma with a touch of gunpowder. Fruity, flowery, sweetish flavor. Nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pale gold; huge, thick, VERY regular-bubbled white head, fast dissipating. Fresh citrussy smell, pale malt and good hops. Thick sweet taste with an unrefined burnt-grain flavour. Finish is better, flowery flavour, but retronasal again citrussy, this time completely artificial. Keeps hanging around, and I’m starting to wonder if this dishwasher aroma might have to be taken literal in the establishment. Medium-bodied. Bit sticky. Strange aftertaste – not pleasant, can’t pin it down. The nose promised delights. The disappointment is all the greater. Most important: there ain’t no such thing as a Corsendonck brewery. There’s just a very able De Keersmaecker salesman in Oud-Turnhout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very slightly hazy golden colour with orange highlights. Very thin (
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled draught at Freys Hörna, Stockholm, Sweden
Amber coloured, clear, brief head. Rich toffee aroma. Sweet and rounded. Beautiful stable, soft maltiness and soft mouthfeel. Velvetty finish with low bitterness. A very likable well balanced beer.