Beers similar to Père Noël

hopIQ found 10 beers that share Père Noël's bitter and hoppy character. Père Noël is De Ranke's Christmas beer, launched in the mid-1990s when the brewery took its name, and released each winter. The brewery calls it a bitter Christmas ale, and where most Belgian winter beers go rich and sweet, this one is an amber, top-fermented ale of pale, Munich and caramel malts, hopped with Brewers Gold and Hallertau and finished with a small addition of liquorice. Crusty bread, caramel and grassy, resinous hops open the aroma. The palate adds black pepper, a touch of orange zest and a faint anise note before a long, spicy bitterness closes it out.

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