Back Road Christmas Ale 2004

Pour is explosively black with the brown head dominating (infection?)...smell is roasty, but no one thing really stands out...taste is sweet with hints of cocoa and light hints of coffee...pretty mild overall...faint roasty finish...

from BBB63. black pour with a thin grey head. roasty raspberry grape alcohol aroma. taste is acorns, and schnapps. very bitter with a grape finish. lingering cheese with a pear finish.

Bottle. Wow. Smokey and meaty. Reminds me of spiced smoked pork. Very, very rich and spicy like BBQ pork. Good amount of sweet, spice, and smoke. Interesting, but I don’t think that this is an impy.

pours a dark black w/ a very thin nearly non existent tan head. First wave smell was delicious. Big dry roasted malt smell nice hints of coffee and a bit of syruppy. Palate is fairly solid nice mouth feel coats well. Flavor is of dry roast coffee and bitter baking cocoa, a little sweet syrup in the finish. Overall a pretty good beer and at 8.8% it must hide its booze well as I didn’t pick it up at all.

bottle from BBB63, pours a thick jet black with a nice layer of creamy coffee colored head. aroma is chocolate and burnt. flavor is exactly the same, with more and more chocolates coming through as the beer warmed a little. amazingly smooth mouthfeel, and just a perfectly sweet aftertaste. saying thanks to mike just doesnt seem like enough after yet another awesome brew.

A pitch black beer with a medium brown head. Dry roasted aroma. Roast and coffee flavor. Tasty and full-bodied. Good one!

Thanks to BBB63 for this one! Wasn’t entirely certain what kind of beer this would be when I opened it, delighted to find a good stout! Poured a thick black, short lived dark tan head. Aroma was of roast and molasses. Flavor matched, with the sweet molasses cutting nicely through the slight tang of roast. Very enjoyable, with a slight treacle note as well.

A black beer with a disappearing chocolate brown head. The aroma is sweet roasty with notes of chocolate. The flavor is sweet roasted and slightly sour with notes of chocolate. The end is dry and the body is nice.