Shepherd Neame Christmas Ale 2006

Bottle. Pours clear orange with at thin film. Aroma and flavoru are both vinious, fruity and a bit flowery.

50 cl bottle. Clear light brown colour with a weak head. Aroma of fruit, mango and lemons almost like a wine. Easy drinkable flavour with notes of fruit, sweet matl and some caramel.

Bottled. Tasting @ Kolding Bryglaug. Aroma is fruity, malty with raisin, toffee and caramel. Clear, red amber coloured with an off-white head. Taste is sweet, malty, has raisin, caramel, toffee. Pleasant taste.

Dark golden beer with a small white head. Toffee and caramel aroma. Dry and malty flavour, already strongly oxidized.

Bottle @ thewolf-and-his-flock-of-sheep tasting session. Didn’t note the year, so might change. Anyway, I didn’t like it. Typical english smell, caramel malt, toffee. Boring.

Bottle@TheWolf, tasting. ´Pours amber with a small white head. The aroma is malty caramel/toffee with a fruity note. Orange/berries. Bitter end with some dry hops. Medium bodied - smooth. Quite good!

Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is flowery hoppy with notes of elderberries and a light touch of malt and caramel. The flavor is malty with notes of toffee and an elderberry note of hops, leading to a light bitter finish, which is quite dry with hints of wood.

Appearance: amber color. Great head, clear beige color, some rocky and very persistent. Aroma: sweet, mainly to caramel malts, very nutty, toffee and vanilla touches. I remember a sponge cake. Several and intensives fruity smells, like oranges, peaches, tangerines and mango. Low hoppy. Liquor smells, with reminiscences of whisky and old rum. Flavor: sweet start; with caramel malty, toasty, very nutty, toffee, sponge cake, vanilla and oak notes. Varied, but some slight in all flavors. Fruitiness of oranges, tangerines and mangos. Few hoppy intensity. Nice liquory. Palate: Medium body with watery texture. Very nice nutty and liquory. Slight lack of flavor insensity.