Holiday Ale

Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸

Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Winter

Score

6.64

ABV: 7.3%

IBU: -

Ticks: 8

Holiday Ale is a Biere de Noel, an offshoot of the Biere de Garde style. Traditionally this style was made by just a handful of small farmhouse breweries in France during the few weeks leading up to Christmas. It has a deep malt flavor with notes of treacle, toasted malt, and caramel. The malt character is accented by a mild herbal presence of French Strisselspalt and Aramis hops.

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shrubber (14989) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 3 years ago

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5

Orange, caramel malt and fresh hay/grass aroma. Dark amber with large light tan head. Moderately sweet cherry/orange, light cinnamon, caramel malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 06 Mar 2021 at 03:19

beastiefan2k (4728) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 5 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

To paraphrase another RBian, you wrote the book on this style, perhaps you need to return to it. Dirty, grimy, earthy, medicinal-herbal malts dominate. Poor malt structure.

Tried on 18 Jan 2019 at 04:09

6.5

fonefan (62248) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ MBCC '17 [ Red Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2017, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Two Roads Holiday Ale ].Clear medium amber colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, light caramelized malt - caramle. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, caramel, pale malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170513] 7-3-6-3-14

Tried on 31 Jan 2018 at 18:29

6.6

RuneBlix (21978) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Draught at MBCC. Red Session. Cloudy brown coloured body, filmy-layer, scattered lacing. Caramel and dried fruits on the nose. Blended taste of caramel, nuts and marmalade offset by a mid-dry, bittersweet ending. Fine bodied. Decent stuff. (Copenhagen 13.05.2017).

Tried on 07 Jun 2017 at 02:51

5.8

cagarvie (26394) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Keg at cbc17 deep brown... Thin white lacing.. Soft sweet toffee fruit nose... Caramel toffee fruit

Tried on 21 May 2017 at 08:41

6.8

martin00sr (7430) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap @MBCC2017, Red Session. Clear brown, offwhite head. Caramely, hoppy aroma. Nutty, caramely flavour, alc warmth and light hoppy bitterness.

Tried from Draft on 18 May 2017 at 02:15

6.3

beerhunter111 (43004) reviewed Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sampled @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration 2017, Red Session. Fast klare orange goldene Farbe. Geruch nach Karamell, mild röstmalzig. Geschmack ist kräftig malzig, karamellig, nussig.

Tried on 17 May 2017 at 13:40

panzerxiii (4114) ticked Holiday Ale from Two Roads Brewing Company 8 years ago

Tried at Beer Culture on 17 Dec 2015 at 20:40