Bethlehem Brew Works Rude Elfs Reserve

Brewed by Bethlehem Brew Works
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

Name: Rude Elf Reserve
Date: 01/27/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cask Eve, 2006

cloudy dark amber, sweet spiced malt aroma with lots of cinamon and clove, huge spice flavor with tons of nutmug hiding to overwhelming clove and cinamon, great for a spice cake, interesting for a unique perspective,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

12oz bottle. Poured a dark and cloudy brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves (and I’m sure I’m missing a couple other spices in there), and on the fruity side. Closely reminded me of a stick of gum that’s been chewed on for a while. Tastes of the same. Spices are there in the tastes but not overpowering. Tastes like a spiced cake of some sort. Alcohol content well hidden. Lacing left on the glass.

Sparkling clear amber ale. Fizzy, off-white head. Aroma of alcohol, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander and allspice. Flavor matches the aroma... all the spices and warm alcohol. Full-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and fizzy arbonation. Short finish that starts sweet and ends up bone-dry. Odd, but nice.

Pours a hazy amber copper with a small froth of off-white head. Sweet cinnamon, nutmeg and Belgian yeasty nose has some light caramel malty noters and a touch of orange and clove. Body starts with good fullness and sweet sugary spices toward a drier, earthy doughy Belgian yeasty finish. Nicely-balanced with a good amount of spice throughout.

on tap-pours a thin whitehead. Color is amber with effervescence. Aroma is malt. Taste is sweet, alcohol, malt, fruit, cinnamon, syrupy. Not my taste.

Good yellowish head; slightly hazy amber chestnut beer. Very perfumed nose, some pine & resins, cypress, etc., and definitely spices: cinnamon, allspice - and bogmyrtle. It’s a bit like an aftershave, in smell. Very spicy taste, exorbitant aromatic oils from cloves, allspice, cinnamon,... Way overspiced. There’s a bit of sweetness lurking, but the typical spicy bitterness holds everything under its sway. Burning MF, oily, the spices are not strange to that. Medium bodied, but I have the impression it is heavier than it seems. " In die Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister". This might have been a lot better with some more caution on dosage. Thanks, Mike!

Bottle courtesy of hopdog. Pours copper with a thin hite head. Smells of wintery spices, sweet malt and caramel. Tastes of cloves, lots of spices associated with Chtistmas. Mouthfeel is syruppy with a sweet and spicy finish.

12 oz bottle courtesy of hopdog… thanks. Dark amber beer with a fast fading head. The aroma is very spicy, nutmeg and lots of cinnamon. Spiced bread and plum pudding. Raisins and cloves. Flavour is quite spicy and peppery. Shows prominent alcohol and a fairly thin body. The spicing is quite nice though with enough bready malts to really back it up. Some sweet peach and plummy malts but then finishes strangely dry. An odd duck, this one.