Black Sheep Blitzen Festive Ruby Ale (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK

I found a few themed beers on the run up to Christmas. They were weirdly quite hidden under the checkout. Black Sheep Blitzen Festive Ruby Ale is my first Christmas beer of the year, and the black sheep on the front of the bottle is wearing a festive Christmas hat.

On opening the bottle there was a biscuit malt aroma, with a little burnt toast. On pouring, this 4% in volume Black Sheep Blitzen Festive Ruby Ale was nearly black in colour, and looked more like a porter or a stout. I've never seen a ruby ale that dark before.

On taste the initial flavour was burnt toast followed quickly by biscuit malt with a sweet caramel malt finish. There was a light herbal hops washing around and underneath all those malts. Black Sheep Blitzen Festive Ruby Ale was really flavoursome. I'm not sure it went so well with my sweet and sour chicken and noodles, but ho ho ho, Merry Christmas anyway.