Christmas Morning
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

 

Look: It pours dark brown with a tan head. Head retention is low.

Smell: It has coffee aromas with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. There is a definitive sweetness up front.

Taste: It is quite sugary up front with cinnamon and nutmeg. There are ginger flavor with coffee. There is a bit of breadiness as well.

Feel: It has a medium full body with a sweet finish. The finish has a bit of bitterness in it as well.

Overall, there are some nice flavors with very smooth alcohol warming.

 

Pour had a head of quickly receding brown-tan foam covering a dark brown (verging on black). Scent has a delightful blend of coffee, ginger, gingerbread, cinnamon, and honey. Taste matches exceptionally well, a delightful blend of a christmas morning -- a bit sweet, a bit rich, a bit boozy. Feel is on the heftier side with a smooth, sweet aftertaste. A great offering to quaff on!

From a can, pours as opaque black with dark tan decent lasting head. Aromas of coffee, sweet malt, and vanilla. Tasts are sweet-creamy-milk-forward with lots of gingerbread and roasted coffee notes. Nice, but to me, a bit of an off-putting chemically aftertaste.

 

DATE: January 13, 2023... OCCASION: watching Black Mirror with Shan after a good week of work and so-so basketball... GLASSWARE: Citrabellum tulip pokal... sizzles out of the can, forming a quickly thinning, light brown, two-fingered roiling ring of head... its body, the expected coffee black... lactose, coffee bean, cola, browns sugar, cinnamon and some peat... a smooth draw, ripe with morning expectation and little hint of alcohol... some roasted malts provide a backbone... its first sip is warming, with heat at the throat, a dry, thick experience throughout--viscous and chewy, savory and creamy... a dessert beer that doubles as a morning jolt... vanilla and lactose weave among the coffee bean to craft an attractive sip, heavy with reckoning... the roasted malts fortify the experience, with sugars and cinnamon adding enough spice to make this worth enjoying slowly... these guys at Hardywood do Christmas well--a big beer that behaves as a medium-bodied stout... definitely one I will look for next year....

 

 

 

 

Very smooth with a robust taste of ginger. Very little carbonation. A sit down and enjoy the lights on the Christmas Tree beer.

pours dar with big head - lightly spiced with ginger and cinnamon. couldn't drink more then 1 in a setting but nice chrismas taste

 

 

2021 16oz can.

Solid Christmas vibes. Good cinnamon on a roasty coffee base. Other adjuncts are subtle but relatively unnecessary. Drinks better as it warms. A great consistent holiday milk stout year-to-year.

 

 

I liked this beer as one of the less sweet tasting Christmas brews from Hardywood. I liked the flavor as I prefer a beer with taste over something more fizzy. There was no bitter after-taste that I sometimes get from dark or other craft beers. Overall I liked it.