More Christmas beers, since I took a break from them yesterday.
The aroma of this beer is full of caramel and malt. While the beer warms up I am getting light hop aromas. The color is light brown that is clear enough to see through. There is a full head of foam on the beer when first poured, but it drops off with a bit of time.
The beer has malt and caramel flavors with a sharp bitter taste. I am not getting any hop flavor to go with the bitterness, and the bitterness is strong through to the finish. I think the mouthfeel is a little thin, and doesn’t go well with a heavy malt beer. The bitterness leaves a bad taste in the back of my mouth, and drys it out, I think all the malt was cooked at a high temp to get the bitter taste.
This isn’t the worst Christmas beer I’ve had, but it is not much of a beer, and there is nothing very Christmas like about the beer. I think the heavy malt does lean towards the Christmas Ale beers, but this is a thin too bitter beer that is nothing much of a beer.
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