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Showing posts with label Cellaring. Show all posts
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May 23, 2009

2008 Sly Fox Christmas Ale...in May??



Yeah, so, back at the end of April I picked up a bottle of 2008 Sly Fox Christmas Ale that I discovered at a bodega in Greenpoint. You don't often find bottles like this at bodegas, so I figured I'd pick it up and either cellar it or drink it, and I debated it on the blog. Well, recently, I got thirsty and didn't have any other beers in the fridge (In fact all I have left are the few things I'm holding off on, like 3 12oz bottles of Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout) so I popped this open. It's definitely still good. It didn't seem that different at all from the last time I had it (um, Christmas), but I will say that it's a LITTLE strange to be drinking a spicy cinnamon beer in hot weather.

Overall though, I don't think this is a great beer to cellar. Maybe that should have been obvious, but I always get an urge to cellar something that has the year slapped on the bottle. But I suppose that's not the best thing to go by.

April 27, 2009

2008 Sly Fox Christmas Ale



Taken December 25th, 2008 by The Beertographer

To drink or to cellar? A question that a craft beer drinker faces frequently when purchasing stouts, strong ales and like in this situation, a winter warmer. This is the 2008 Sly Fox Christmas Ale. The one above I got for, youguessedit, Christmas and it was pretty good. Slight spicy, cinnamon flavors, but not too high on the alcohol at 6.5%. A few weeks ago, when it was still cold, I encountered another bottle of this and decided to pick it up. It's sat in the back of my fridge since then, and now it's in the 80s. So, should I sit on it for a year or should I just have a Christmas in Spring?