UPDATED: SEP 21, 2023 Backlog September 2011. Deep reddish amber body under a small beige head. Aroma has malt, caramel, Christmas spices and dry fruit. Taste is sweet malt, caramel, chocolate, dry fruit and lots of Christmas spices. Medium body with same aftertaste. Nice spicy ale.

UPDATED: MAR 24, 2019 From tap at Mise en Biere, Lausanne. Very dark mahogany color with a tan colored finely pored head. Very spicy aroma of nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, cloves, toffee and nuts. Medium to medium-full body with a light to medium sweetness and a light to medium bitterness. The flavor is medium roasty with lots of spices, chocolate, cacao, some dark fruits, raisins, lots of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Finishes with lots of cinnamon, bitter spices, cocoa and chocolate. Too much spices for my liking - the spices are all over the place, unbalanced. Aroma: 7 Appearance: 4 Taste: 7 Palate: 4 Overall: 12

UPDATED: MAR 13, 2019 Dark brown with a khaki head. Sweet, caramel and sticky m light alcohol, fruity sweetness, and light alcohol

UPDATED: JAN 27, 2019 On draught at Uno's Pizzeria and Grill. A nice blend of spices and chocolate-y dark malts. Warming without a boozy taste, balanced well with bitterness and sweetness.

12 oz bottle in the cellar for about a year. Pours dark brown with barely any light getting through and a considerable amount of yeast sediment with a orange/tan cap. Smells delicious, and pretty darn complex. Dark roast coffee, a prominent note that makes me think "Rogue Hazelnut Brown", cocoa, cinnamon, caramel, an almost faint-bourbon barrel finish, and molasses. Smells like a spiced molasses loaf! Taste wise light sweetness, and surprisingly bitter with molasses up front and mineral bitterness on top of the spice and roasty malt notes that head into sweeter cocoa/molasses notes, and then the opening up of the spice that continues into the bitter finish. It's solid. I wouldn't want a tonne, but it's pleasant.

12oz bottle pours out cola brown color topped with a small head. Nose is rich malts some pit fruit notes a nice combo spice. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts pit fruit cherries and spice.

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From the tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours dark brown, almost black, with cream colored foam, fine. Aroma is caramel and malty. Body is fairly dense with medium carbonation, tongue-touching. Taste is pretty sweet, with a moderate bitterness. Finish is long and sweet.

(Keg at Sori Taproom, 20180106) The beer poured deep reddish brown and clear. Its head was medium sized and nearly white. Aroma had malts, caramel and berries. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, berries, caramel, tartness and bitterness. Aftertaste had berries, tartness and bitterness. A bit messy brew. I failed to understand why this was brewed.

UPDATED: DEC 25, 2017 Pours a reddish black with a muddy white head. Malty with a heavy nutmeg/cinnamon spice flavor. Like biting into a boozy gingerbread house. What else would you want from a Christmas Ale?