Kern River Holiday Ale 2007

Brewed by Kern River Brewing
Style: American Strong Ale
Kernville, California USA

(22oz bottle, thanks kmweaver) Small off-white head with clear dark brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, herbal, some tea. Taste is medium sweet, herbal, some caramel, light apricot, earthy. Light-medium body.

Bomber bottle from Irishboy and served in my Karmeliet big ole snifter: Brown with reddish highlight topped y a big foamy off-white head which left good lace upon the glassware. The aroma has notes of rye bread, caramel, walnut, pine nuts, fig, light molasses syrup, root beer soda, and a hint of peat moss. The taste is shockingly more bitter and displays raw toasted grains than expected. A bit of leafy piney qualities over a layer of heavy caramelized malt towards the spiced finish. Very rounded palate IMO. The mouth feel is sprite and biting with a chewy dry finish. There is enough depth here to challenge the harden ratebeerian, now only if the palate was a tad heavier this would really rock..

Courtesy of admiral sexypants. Clear dark amber body with a tiny off-white head. The nose is heavy with floral and citrus hops, caramel and pine. The flavor is moderately sweet with caramel, pine, grapefruit, toffee, pine and golden raisins. Medium/full body is soft with light carbonation.

22oz bottle, courtesy of Odeed. Thanks, Jake! Pours a bright, dark reddish-brown tea color; off-white head with fine-bubbled lacing. Lots of tannic, tea-like malts and rye and brown sugar in the aroma. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: tea-like / wet malts, toasted malts, and tannic brown sugar; a bit chalky and overly dry; hard to drink a lot of this. Medium finish: tea, sugar, and brown sugar.

NorCal Feb ’08 - The beer is brown in color, light brown foamy cap with about 2 fingers in thickness. Aroma is lightly hopped, brown sugar, sasparilla, light roasted malts and a yeasty/breadyness angle I found enjoyable. Smooth mouthfeel. Flavor is mostly on par with the aroma...sweet malts, lightly roasted, some anise with a floral hop character. A nice holiday beer.

Golden brown with a small off white head. Some spotty lacing. Aroma of light hops, with a hint of spice,and caramel. Flavor of spice, some malt, and light hops. A slight lingering hop aftertaste. Not really my style of beer, but it is a good beer.

22 oz. bottle via trade with IrishBoy - Pours a brown color with a 1/2 finger thick off white head. Light spotty lacing. Aroma is spice and a sweet toasted malt. Flavor is sweet malt and light spice. Light to medium body. Mouthfeel is a tad thin. A good beer. Thanks Richard.

Brown with a nice light tan head. Aroma is caramel, brown sugar, light yeastiness to it, and some hoppiness. Taste is an inital brown sugar sweetness, followed by a strong pleasant hoppiness, and light almond taste to it. Another sold brew from Kern River Brewing.