Bière De Noël
Bières De Saint-Louis

Amber (12) pour at the brewery; heavy off white head; good cap retention; solid ring with moderately heavy lace; excellent clarity. Fruity esters, plum, lite spice andlite skunky hop nose. Lite spice, semi sweet caramel malt, lite cinnamon, earthy bitter hop finish. Lite plus feel, moderate carbonation. Overall a pleasant, malt forward Noel beer with a lite bitter linger. I thought this beer was better on tap. I drank a bottle at home later same day, and bottle had much less carbonation and almost no head, and the body seemed more watery and the flavors were weak.

Beer bottle (33 cl.), tasted in 2011.

Appearance : reddish amber color, with white foam medium head.
Smell : malty and spicy aromas.
Taste and mouthfeel : malty with spicy notes (cinnamon, licorice and cardamom ?), peppery finish.
Drinkability : an average beer in the style Herbed a spiced.

A-No BB date. High fill. Pours a faintly hazy brownish amber. Decent retention, ring of foam remains around edges of snifter.

S-Sweet malt and spice dominate with fruit notes and alcohol. Ginger, chocolate, apple, cherry, cranberry, cola, white pepper, tea, licorice.

T-Faintly sweet roasted malt w/hints of coffee, cola, spices matching aroma profile, faint caramel, dry finish. Bits of medicinal and spicy phenols.

M-Light-medium body w/effervescent carbonation, velvety mouthfeel, and good balance.

D-Good offering, easy to drink, complex, pleasant.