Reindeer Fuel 2016
Amager Bryghus

- From:
- Amager Bryghus
- Denmark
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.16 | pDev: 16.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 06, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
Some horrible people claim that Santa must be on crack or something. How else could he possibly visit so many kids in so few days around Christmas time? This of course is a dirty lie. However, Santa’s reindeer do run on something, and that something is 10% Barley Wine, one of the richest and most nutritious beer styles around. And we’re glad to let you know that in the years to come Amager Bryghus will help Santa in his efforts - and naturally his hard working reindeer in particular - by producing Reindeer Fuel, the only recommended drink if you plan to fly a sleigh over long distances. We may go as far as to call Reindeer Fuel the energy drink of the beer world - that is if energy drinks weren’t such shite. Anyways, to constantly improve the range and performance of Santa’s reindeer - the world has more children each year you know - we will tirelessly work on improving the recipe of this seasonal Barley Wine, constantly changing it so that two different vintages are not the same. The ultimate goal - our Holy Grail, so to speak - is to brew the perfect Barley Wine. Will we ever find the Holy Grail? Well, probably not, but we’re damned sure that in the years to come we will make a lot of reindeer and other beer drinkers happy in the process.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.68/5 rDev +16.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +16.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
Copenhagen 9/3 2017. 50 cl bottle from Meny. A quite drunk Santa with reindeers looking totally plastered as well. These Christmas gifts will not reach their destination.
Pours hazy amber with yellowish head. Settles as 0,5 cm thick layer of foam.
Aroma of dark roasted malts, caramel, fermented fruit with notes of sherry. A little sugary.
Light carbonation and surprisingly thin palate.
Flavor is heavy sweet and sugary. Almost no bitterness - fairly strange in a beer from Amager Bryghus. Aftertaste is sweet caramel.
You can sense the alcohol right behind the sweetness. A nice alcoholic kind of Christmas Sweets.
Dec 06, 2025Pours hazy amber with yellowish head. Settles as 0,5 cm thick layer of foam.
Aroma of dark roasted malts, caramel, fermented fruit with notes of sherry. A little sugary.
Light carbonation and surprisingly thin palate.
Flavor is heavy sweet and sugary. Almost no bitterness - fairly strange in a beer from Amager Bryghus. Aftertaste is sweet caramel.
You can sense the alcohol right behind the sweetness. A nice alcoholic kind of Christmas Sweets.
Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain
2.63/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
2.63/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
From Mikkeller Shop. In Teku glass. Reading CSHTP11 GUI Case Studies Very sweet with some spices. It ends up being cloying and tiresome. They should improve in their next year version, as they expect to repeat it with variations trying to improve the recipe
Jan 14, 2017
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