Schlafly Christmas Ale

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Very festive beer. Has a big aroma with cinnamon, spice and pumpkin notes. Tastes of orange peel and cardamon and maybe a bit of cloves and ginger. It has a copper-brick color and it tastes through with a bit of sweetness and toastiness that remains on the palate. A very nice drinking beer.

This is a very delicious holiday ale. Drink this at Room temp, for if you do not, then you will get a cough syrup taste to it. At room temperature, the beer has an extreme bakeshop smell, as though you were buying Christmas Cookies. The taste is spicy, and I detected cloves and citrus.

Nice effort. Pours a nice reddish-copper with a medium-to-thin head. Aroma is like a very, very yeasty gingerbread man. Almost too yeasty. Flavor is full, caramel, toffee, maple syrup (think Mary Janes or Squirrel Nut Zippers), followed by ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. A very candy-like beer, appropriate flavors for the holiday, and a very nice alcohol buzz. Good stuff, right there with the pumpkin.

The beer pours a beautiful dark amber color with a medium strong head. Its an extremely hazy beer with little clarity. This is almost a year old bottle and it seems to work very well. The strong spices are apparent with lots of orange coming through. Lots if clove and nutmeg as well. The malts are just slightly aged with some British ESB like flavors coming off. Combines very well with a sweet biscuit and spices into a fruit cake type of a brew. Loving it.
12oz bottle, bottled on Oct 31, 2007, Regenboog Chalice glass.

Excellent seasonal. Clear copper body with a small beige head that retains well and deposits some patchy lace. Very spicy aroma, with gingerbread, pine cone, cloves, nutmeg, and orangepeel. The spices zing the tongue and the body is medium with good carbonation. Taste is malty with toffe and caramel notes, almost overwhelmed by the assertive spicing. Nice touch of bittering pine hops. Dry finish with a ginger aftertaste. Alcohol content is very well hidden.

Good copper color. Strong spice aroma which is very good. Defenite cinnamon presence in the taste with a pronouncced orange peel bitterness at the end. I agree that this tastes similar to the pumpkin especially on the first try. Having another one helps distinguishing the differences. I was hoping for something a little different but it is very good.

Bottled 10/30/07, tasted 2/22/08. Poured reddish- amber with an off white head which went away quickly, also lots of sediment. Spicy, with a hint of cinnamon on the nose. Tastes mildly hoppy with orange zest and spicy hops in the finish. I enjoyed this beer.

courtesy of hwwty4. Pours orange/brown with tan head. Aroma was loaded with nice piney hops. It almost felt like taking a walk in a pine forest, the aroma was that strong. Taste is hoppy, comes off well balanced with the malts and some spices (cinnamon). Really loved this one.