AleSmith Horny Devil

Brewed by AleSmith Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Une autre bombe partagée par Ben. Cheers! Une belle robe dorée et sa coiffe impeccablement blanche. Quelques traces qui s’installent tout doucement sur le verre. Un nez saisissant de fruits tropicaux, de coriandre à la puissance 10 et de fleurs habituellement utilisées en parfumerie. Une base maltée fouetté par la présence d’un sucre belge. Sur les papilles, d’étonnantes saveurs de banane, de citron et de vanille à travers une audacieuse présence des fruits séchés de cette plante qu’on appelle aussi «persil arabe». L’alcool, bien que poussée vers les hauteurs, n’est jamais agressif. À défaut d’être complètement chaud, il se manifeste sous un aspect floral et légèrement poivré. En bouche, le corps est habilement monté pour une grande accessibilité. La finale est définitivement longue sur des notes fruitées qui se fondent dans la tiédeur d’un alcool épicé et sec.

Le liquide est blond,voilé,sans col et une houle parsemée.Au nez,les levures belges,les épices et des notes fruités.Au goût,une douceur de sucre belge et les épices sont très présentent.Le liquide est quelque peut huileux.Pour conclure,c’est 11% sont dangereusement bien caché,ce qui lui confère une aisance à bien descendre dans le gosier .Une belle réussite !

Bottle from Rehills, Newcastle. This lively golden beer has sweet apricot, lemon and candi sugar flavours with earthy notes and warming sweetness on the finish.

March 26, 2013 - bottle from Everetts. Golden pour with lots of head that faded relatively quickly. Aroma was spice, yeast, sweet candy sugar and light fruit. Taste starts sweet moves into the spice and finishes with some dry alcohol. Medium bodied and some carbonation.

Aroma is heavy coriander, Belgian yeast/sugar and raspberries. The flavor is spices, citrus, raspberries and mix of tartness and alcohol in the finish.

Golden colour. Huge coriander and belgian yeast aroma and flavour.

September 8th, 2011 - AleSmith’s Horny Devil shows how flexible the Belgian Strong Ale category is. The BSA’s of my youth were universally brown and dark and sweet and almost unctuously deep with dark, wintery, cozy-by-the-fireplace flavors. But the Horny Devil is lighter and sits with just a little less weight in the gut. The body has a pleasing clarity and a bucolic straw color, matched in elegance by an aroma filled with the rich scents of yeast, butter and bubble gum. The flavor is light and delicate, but put into relief by a similarly light palate. A soft buttery flavor glides between the mid and aftertaste, supported by touches of light grain and more of that light, yeast-infused bubble gum - not unlike a good trippel. Now I know why they offer the Horny Devil higher up on the beer tasting menu at the brewery where the lighter beers go: it IS a lighter beer, and best served before you get to the muddier and muckier brews that AleSmith does so well.

Unfortunately, one of the worst beers I’ve ever had, bottle was a few years old, I thought thus was for aging? Terrible, all coriander. Gross.

Bottle. Pours gold with a quickly dissipating head. Aroma is grape, raisin and yeast. Taste is floral and citrusy with some dark fruits and a yeasty finish. Probably a little overly sweet. Light mouthfeel and slightly dry finish. Lacking some balance. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Wow what a nice brew! Pours a burnt yellow color with an off white head. Let it warm up a bit in the coriander comes through nicely. Well done alesmith