UPDATED: MAY 20, 2024 Good strong ale with notes of tart fruits with chocolate. A little yeasty with a big malt background.

UPDATED: MAR 6, 2024 Bottle at ROC. Fruity and spicy nose, caramel and chocolate. Deep amber orange with a low thick head. Flavor is cherry, burnt caramel, orange, Belgian yeast spice. Not too sweet or heavy.

UPDATED: DEC 22, 2023 Freshest by June 21st 2024. From Beer Drop. Pours a clear deep amber with a small head of foam, very little lacing. The smell is Belgian spices, yeast, cherries, more spices. The taste is yeasty, cloves, cherries both tart and sweet (honey), massive spiciness, heat from the alcohol, big big flavours, not all of them to my liking. Especially the allspice and cloves. Medium bodied, good carbonation. I have another can that will be sitting for a while.

UPDATED: NOV 24, 2023 Keg at pizza plant buffalo. Pours deep amber, nose is caramel, toffee, berries, spice, taste is similar, fruitcake.

UPDATED: AUG 7, 2023 Much out of season opened this bottle into a Tulip. A dusty yet vibrant reddish copper under a smaller beige head. Slight lacing. A fruity fragrance. As the description states, definitely cherry on initial taste is mild and subtly effervescent. Wet as in sweet flavor in anticipation of the 11%. The talented brewers of Troegs never disappoint. Mouthfeel with its sweetness is tame. The hefty ABV kicks in, leaving a soft yet heady finish.

UPDATED: FEB 4, 2023 Bottle poured a çlear reddish amber with a small lasting amber head. Aromas if toffee, dried fruit, spice and cherry. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of toffee, spice, cherry and light dried fruit with a crisp dry lingering spiced fruity finish.

UPDATED: JAN 26, 2023 Pours reddish brown with a big oily head. Aroma of tart cherry juice, some nutty aromas. Taste has cherry juice, stone fruits, some spices, nutmeg, sweet mellifluous notes. Palate has more honey intermixed with tart fruit notes, along with some cocoa and toasted nuts. Fascinating.

UPDATED: DEC 14, 2022 Murky brown cream soda appearance, with short lived head. Cherry, coriander, sweet malt and chestnut aroma/flavor. Warm boozy finish

UPDATED: DEC 3, 2022 Pours a deep amber color with a thin tan head. The flavor was some honey with caramel and a little bit of cherry. This is a very good beer and I will have to try it again before the holidays are over.

UPDATED: NOV 22, 2022 The first for family festivities. Today was rock climbing, potato bar, hot tub and ghost tour. Glad I had the holiday box of Troyes every holiday step of the way.