Merry Christmas

It's the 18'th of December, and today, we'll Schieve X-mas, by Brasserie de la Senne.

The ale pours bright and deeply orange, leaving a thicc beige and pretty head.

When we smell the ale, it gives off a fruity aroma of oranges, and a smell of hoppy citra.

The taste does not diverge much from its smell. It's a quite hoppy ale, leaving plenty bitterness in the back of the throat while the rest of your mouth is filled with hints of fruit.
Wouldn't really call this ale a Christmas one. It's much closer to some of the IPAs I've tried.
Bitter, but not overpowering, and sweetened very lightly.

If you like IPA, you'd like this one. If you hate IPA, you probably wouldn't enjoy this one either.

Merry Christmas

>>82105
>Lactose
Some beers are good with milk in them, like chocolate stout. Most don't mix well with milk, though. I guess you can just add lactose without the rest of milk, though.

Merry Christmash

It's the 19'th of December, and this will be the last beer review this side of Christmas. The remaining 5, will come between Christmas and New Years.
Today, we will be having Dubuisson's Bush de Noël, a strong Belgian ale of 12% VOL, making it the strongest ale we've had so far.

The ale pours a brown deep colour with a matching bright head.

Smelling it, we get a slight hint of cinnamon as well as the darker malts used, but otherwise it just smells spirity.

Tasting it, that's how the ale tastes as well. Slightly of spirit and almost just like water....
Thus it's pretty clear, that this is an ale that should most certainly not be enjoyed straight out of the fridge. Let it rest half an hour or an hour.
After doing just that, despite the bottle having been opened, the ale no longer tastes watery, nor spirity. You get the sweet taste of the darker malts as well as the Christmas seasoning, mostly the cinnamon. The mouthfeel is warming, more round and well-balanced, instead of being that of a watery plain spirit.

A beer enthusiast often says, a good service temperature for an ale, is the ale's alcohol by volume, in degrees C.
Since this is a 12% VOL one, it should thus be served at 12C, or approximately 53F for my burger bros.
There are variants of this obviously, but it's a good baseline that won't lead you too far astray.

Merry Christmas, and I'll see you after Christmas for the remaining five ales

>>82228
It really sounds like it :<
Hope you find something good

>>82268
I forgot what I attached..

Cheeky breeky, watching movies, on Endchan's Birthday, tonight.
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>>82348
Europe desperately needs mass deportations of Muslims.