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Danish Christmas Beer Booty – intro and photos

Well, the Danish Christmas Beer Booty – a gift to myself – has been awesome. By booty I am talking about a 'pirate' or viking or is a nautical term for treasure! Anyway all the beers I've had rate 12-16s out of 20. A fuller @brewrank report to follow in the meantime here are the [...]

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Christmas Beers Rule

So, had a fun time trying various so-called Christmas Beers this year and look forward to next year for more research. It’s tough for me to call between the Hepworth Vintage Christmas Ale; De Dolle Stille Nacht and the Weltons Imperial Festive 2008 but actually I think the Harvey Christmas Ale might have come out of [...]

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Christmas Beer – Weltons Imperial Festive 2008

Oh my, this is my 2nd bottle of this.  First one I wasn’t able to take notes as I’m still not sure of the etiquette of taking notes when drinking socially with people you don’t know so well. And this bottle conditioned beauty is wonderful and goes straight to the top of the charts of my [...]

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Christmas Beer – WJ King Merry Ale

The King family has been brewing beer for 5 generations.  They are based in Horsham which seems to be quite a hotbed for great smaller/craft brewers.  Need to go to a tour sometime soon. I gave their 6.5% bottle conditioned Christmas Beer I try and based on that am now keen to work my way [...]

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Christmas Beer – Corsendonk Christmas Ale

Another Belgian, this time it appears to be a contract beer from Du Bocq for Brouwerij Corsendonk which I think it the 2nd or 3rd time for me.  Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a bad brew but I’m looking for smaller efforts than what you generally seem to get for Belgian Christmas beer.  The [...]

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Christmas Beer – Ballards Wassail

Getting near the end of the Christmas Beer tasting and will try to do a wrapup. The label on this one is pretty cool with a Viking (Olde English) tale about where the word Wassail came from. This was a conditioned bottle bought from the well stocked Middle Farm in East Sussex.  I was also able [...]

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