type: Imperial double IPAorigin: San Diego, CA, USA
price: $8 / 22oz
Alesmith produces two batches of Yulesmith per year: Independence Day (hence fireworks on the bottle), and Christmas. This is the latter. A WARNING: do not pour this beer at your normal rate! As the picture shows, either I'm a complete beer-pouring idiot or head development is a big problem, almost as big as Snooki's smush-smush appetite. That is, until it hits your lips. It's perfectly hopped and you get interesting spices in the background.
This is the first bottle-conditioned ale I've been excited about and I'll definitely be on the lookout for Yulesmith #2 in the winter.
Doesn't 'summer batch' make it the former?
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