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Showing posts with label Winter Ale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter Ale. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Nøgne Ø, Jolly Pumpkin Brewing, Stone Brewing - Special Holiday Ale - Norway (ABV 8.5%)

A collaboration between 3 top brewers to produce a special spicy winter warming Christmas Ale. The recipe includes Michigan chestnuts, white sage from southern California and Norwegian juniper berries.

It pours a lovely chocolate brown and has a spicy roasted malt aroma. It has only a slight head and a medium carbonation. The adjuncts really add flavour to this spicy, chocolaty and very tasty ale. Despite drinking this beer during a hot southern hemisphere Christmas it really did give me seasonal cheer. This would be a great winter warmer (in a mulled wine kind of way) in a northern Christmas.

A very good, very tasty spicy winter ale.