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Even if Christmas marks the most magical time of the year, it is often also the freezing cold, wet and uncomfortable beginning of winter. Autumn has passed by the first days of Advent at the latest and the first night frosts are spreading across the country. The darkness reaches its zenith and the first snow has already fallen. In this half of the year we long for warmth, light, comfort and soul-flattering delicacies.
The Christmas Ale from Abita, for example, falls into the latter category. Brewed with a fullness of six different malts, this delightful Brown Ale warms frost-stricken hearts with an alcohol content of 5.8%. In order to give their festival beer that certain something extra, the brewers have brewed in a particularly large portion of hops and also dry-hopped the beer. The Centennial, Cascade, Columbus and Amarillo varieties give the malt body fruity citrus notes, spicy pine notes and a crisp bitterness.
The composition of strong malt and four types of green gold flows into the glass in a festive copper red and is crowned with a hand’s breadth of nut-colored foam. The aroma of candied dark fruit fills the air and combines with winter spices to create an enticing blend. The attack combines caramel, roasted pecans and roasted malt with pine resin and lemon zest. A hoppy bitterness completes the play of aromas.
Water, barley malt, hops, yeast
