Christmas Miracle 2014 Tasting

Our Christmas beer, dubbed "Christmas Miracle 2014" has been ready to drink for a couple weeks now. The beer has good carbonation and all the target flavors are there - predominately cherry but also cinnamon and vanilla. With the 8% ABV and the strong cherry flavor, it certainly fits right in as a Christmas beer. Personally, I feel like the cherry may be a bit overpowering for me, resulting in an almost cough-syrupy beer. Amy is a fan though, and certainly it does taste like a decently-made beer and doesn't really have any off flavors.

Every year our friends Steve and Valerie host a holiday beer tasting, where everyone brings a couple beers hidden in bags, and we do blind tastings of all the beers to see what we think. One of the beers we brought this year was our Christmas Miracle home brew. Nobody knew there was a home brew in the mix, and with the blind tasting people likened it to some of the other cherry-based holiday beers. People who liked that flavor liked the beer, and the fact that nobody even suspected the beer was a home brew was....... a Christmas Miracle!!!!

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