Merry Christmash

Back to the Dark, and the better top-fermented ales.
Today, we'll be having a dark brown ale, a scotch ale, from the craftsbrewer John Martin. Today, we'll taste the Gordon Xmas.

It pours a nice lovely dark brown colour, leaving a very nice and white head.

The beer pours a light amber color, leaving no head. It smells slightly of caramel.
The beer's smell is nothing to write home about. It has a smell of bread and very faint smell of chocolate, similar to a kitchen a few hours after baking sweet Christmas cookies.

If you expected the beer to not taste like much due to how it smells, you'll be in for a surprise.
The ale tastes quite powerful of burnt Christmas cookies with notes of sweet fruit, leaving a spirity bitter aftertaste at the back of your throat that almost makes you wanna cough or I might just have Corona, who knows

An ale that definitely can be thoroughly enjoyed by drinking it slowly, as the taste of it lasts a very long time. Given an 8.8% VOL, that might also be a good idea regardless.

Tomorrow, there will be no beer review, due to being too busy.
Instead, look forward to Saturday where there will be two!