Ahle Julöl

Brewed by Ahlafors Bryggerier
Style: English Strong Ale
Alafors, Sweden

The Christmas beer test 2009-11-27, bottle 2009 version AR: plane, a bit ginger AP: christmas root beer coloured body , no head F: wage flavors, not really a the christmas beer that your expect but I guess it can work with the greasy food on the christmas table

Bottle. About 5 years old. Pours a brown color with a small off-white head. Has a malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some bitter hints. Has a fruity malty bitter caramel finish.

Bottle. Deep red colour. The aroma is dominated by blackcurrant and sourishness. The taste is malty, fruity, and sweet but mostly acidic/sourish. Strong notes of blackcurrant. Is it really supposed to taste like this? Maybe a bit infected. Bad.

Big 150 cl bottle, looks great! Dark brown colour with an off-white head. Weak fruity aroma. Flavour is yeasty, fruity and a bit sour. A bit light for a christmas beer IMO.

(Draught) Pours deep, dark red. Metal, malt, light roasted aroma with notes of spices and juniper. Small notes of berries/cherries. Light watery, malty flavour with metal and a sour touch. Notes of chocolate and butter in the finish with some salt. Sourness and salt lingers. Small to medium body.

First rating from 2006
(Draught at The Rover, Göteborg) Small thin sweet scent. Lots of metal taste with some acid in the back. You can hint some chocolate as well, especially in the aftertaste, but all in all it’s not that nice. Needs more spices for a Christmas beer. Needs to get rid of the acids that keeps coming back in Ahlafors’ beers. Also needs some more hops.
4/4/3/2/8=2.1

Second rating, from 2007
Tried this again, draught at The Rover, Göteborg.
Even though I don’t find it as infected as last year, it still is there. A lingering acidic bad sensation in the aftertaste foremost. They really need to get it together at the brewery or I think they’ll just not be able to sell their beers anymore.
Scent was lots of butterscotch and a nice smell of christmas bread. Taste is butterscotch and a bit roasted, though the acidic lactic tone just ruines it completelt. Medium mouthfeel, low bitterness. Didn’t finish this one. No need to update with more figures, last year it was infected, this year it is infected.

Bottle, 2006 at Haket, Göteborg. Dark amber color with a thin offwhite foam. Lots of malty and toffe tones. Medium to light body with some bitterness in the finish.

Bottle 261106. Dark red colour, with a thin foam. Aroma of citric and and a little bit of rasin. Thin body, short finish. This was not the best of this brwery.