Abita Christmas Ale

Abita Christmas Ale

Tis the season, for Christmas beers and what we have here is a failure of a beer. This is the beer you give to all the people on your shit list. First things first, I can’t think of any food that this beer would go well with. It is just too bitter to go well with most foods. Perhaps you could place it with chocolate but doing so would really only be to make the beer taste better as apposed to enhancing the experience. The beer smells like soy sauce and rye bread. The overall taste of the beer is of hops and that is about all the beer has to offer. The beer is common in taste and nothing really stands out about it. The hops flavor is slightly muted in the beginning but before the swig is over the bitter taste comes through in the end. The effervescence (carbonation) that I enjoy in beers is just not there. Dear Santa, due to China’s up and coming economy you might not like the price of coal so I have a way to help you when it comes to giving punishment gifts to bad boys and girls. This beer in their stockings is far worse than getting coal because they can use coal in their stoves and BBQ grills. This beer however is a punishment far worse because the bad boys and girls will be compelled to drink this punishment. So in closing, if you like bland bitter hoppy beer, then by all means enjoy this beer. However, this is not for me. As far as the Christmas beers go I don’t think that I am a real fan of any thus far, but I will keep drinking them and reporting my findings to you. In addition to that, my advice to all of you this season and for the year to come. Follow your gut feelings and what I mean is this. I was standing in the beer isle at my local grocer this Sunday there on a totally fluke matte and for whatever reason I started to hunt for the beer I was going to review for the week and after much deliberation settled on this beer. However I somehow knew that this beer would suck but I purchased it despite what I knew in my heart of harts. My rational was that it was Christmas time and I wanted to review beers that reflected the season and so here we are eight plus bucks out but really no worse for wear but still displeased with myself for not listening to myself when I knew it was going to suck. That is life I suppose, damned to screw ourselves despite out better judgment. I al just lucky that it was only a six pack. I can live with that mistake and try fore a nock out the park next time.