Chirstmas Beer Review

Hit up the Brick Store the weekend before Christmas to finally try to drink my way through the Belgian Bar. The beers on tap were:

ST. BERNARDUS CHRISTMAS
CORSENDONK CHRISTMAS
GOUDEN CAROLOUS NOEL
SCALDIS NOEL (12% Quad)
DERANKE PERE NOEL
CHRISTMAS LEROY
N'ICE CHOUFFE
AVEC LES BONS VOEUX

The Christmas Leroy was tapped out by the time I got there. It was replaced by Samichlaus Bier. Started out with the Deranke Pere Noel then hit the Samichlaus. Got a little lucky (un-lucky?) with the Samichlaus pour. As per Brick Store custom, the majority of the beers on draft are served in the brand specific glass, the Samichalaus was no exception. Poured in a great looking tulip glass with a pour mark of 0.2L. Ok, so the pour was supposed to be 0.2L, the wonderful bartendress pretty much topped it full, closer to 0.5L. So a great thing right? Well yes and no. Samichlaus kicks in at a nigh near illegal in Georgia 14%abv! Yeah, 17 or so ounces of high gravity wonderment. Sweet, smooth, warming. Just wonderful. I wish I had saved this one until last since it pretty much blew out my pallet (and my senses, still on an empty stomach when I drank it!). So I also worked through the N'ice Couffee, St. Bernardus and the Corsendonk. I finished the night with a cellared bottle of Monstre Rouge, a Flanders Red brewed in collaboration between Terrapin and De Proef. My buddy did make it through all 8 of the drafts and was somehow still standing at the end of the night.

For anyone in the Southeast that can make it to the Brick Store from late November to Christmas I highly suggest you head over to Brick Store and try some of the amazing Winter/Christmas beers on draft upstairs at the belgian bar.

Happy Drinking!!