Wasatch Christmas Ale

Brewed by Schirf Brewing Company/Wasatch Brew Pub
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Park City, Utah USA

Pours a clear brownish color, nice carbonation, nice foamy head, nice lacing afterwards. Scents of malts, slight roasted nuts, and caramel. The taste is nice and sweet/malty, there’s a slight nutty tone and a nice caramel after taste. Medium body. Drinkable, not a winter warmer by far, but pretty tasty and you can have a few.

On tap in Park City, Utah. After perusing some of the ratings, this beer seems to be very different to everyone. Maybe the recipe has changed over the years. Anyway, here is my take. Pours a clear copper color with a large foamy white head. The aroma is very nice; full of ripe citrus hops. The taste was balanced between caramel malts and a very rich hoppy goodness. More like a Pale Ale really. Very enjoyable. Soft and yet very flavorful. Very enjoyable. I wish they bottled this.

This was a fine Xmas ale. There was a good balance with the malts and hops. The overall flavor was crisp and was very pleasant to drink. I wish it had more bite. Golden copper color with a good amount of spices. Good Beer

Better then I expected. I bought this thinking it would be barley drinkable and that I could sell it to my roommates and that I’d get to keep the nice wooden crate it comes in. However I’ve already had 6 of the 12. Grassy, spicey, with lots of ginger. Copper color, thin head. Spicey with mellow hops, slightly tart. Interesting, I’ve come to expect darker bigger christmas beers, but this is quite light yet still interesting. Not bad.

Hazy light orange body with quickly dissipating off-white head. Aroma is grassy, with a little bit of spiciness. Flavor is smooth and relatively light, decent grassy hoppiness without much bitterness. No idea what makes this a winter beer, as it has none of the characteristics I associate with a winter seasonal. In fact, I think it’d be nice on a hot day. That being said, it’s a decent beer, particularly with the obvious qualifier of it being subject to Utah’s 3.2% alcohol law.

Clear bright orange-amber. Lasting off-white head. Spicy, herbal (rosemary?), gingery aroma. Light-medium body. Light caramel & brown sugar malt flavour w/ an herbal spiciness, ginger, & light hops.

The things I drink for winter beer. OK, nothing spectacular. Bad nose, smells like a skunky lager. Not particularly hoppy, not particularly spicy, not particularly flavorful. Odd color, very light for a winter, just a hazy peach-gold.

Not a Christmas ale. Any spicyness was so faint that it was almost undetectable. Hop flavour was light and delicate but uneventful. They could do better.