 JoeinUccle (689), Brussels, Belgium
Dec 16, 2007
From the bottle at the Kerstbierfestival. pours black-brown with dark brown highlights, tan head. Nose is roasty, with licorice and dried, dark fruits. The flavor matches it, bitter and boozy, with some fruit notes and more licorice. Dry and bitterish finish.
RichJ7 (890), Cullman, Alabama, USA
Aug 29, 2008 Dark brown pour with a nose full of earthy malt and spices. Flavor is sour and spicy with tons of coriander and ginger. Overly spiced for my taste. Could’ve used a bit more subtlety. Not bad for a novelty, but probably won’t seek this one out again.
Maria (4439), Thisted, Denmark
Aug 16, 2008 Hazy red-brown with a dense head. The aroma is slightly perfumed and sweet with notes of candy sugar, malt, spices and ginger. The flavour has sweetness and a light sourness and notes of malt, candy sugar, yeast, spices, ginger and it ends slightly tart/spicy. A bit “too much” IMO, a bit unbalanced.
Heathen (521), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
Aug 12, 2008 THOUGHTS: Wow. From the aroma I wasn’t expecting the sour blast of flavor. This could just about be classified a sour ale. More sour did come out in the aroma as it warmed up a bit, but that initial sniff and sip shocked my taste buds.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brown with slight orange highlights and body particles that were hard to see with the dark color of the beer. There was a small, off-white head that mostly diminished and left virtually no lacing. The aroma was spices, fruitiness like passion fruit and peaches (odd fruit for a beer this dark) and then sour fruit. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and light to moderately acidic; while the finish was lightly sweet and very sour with and average to long duration. This tasted like something I’ve had before, but not a beer. I have no clue what it might have been. It might not have even been a beverage. But there was spices, but mostly sour fruits kind of like sour peach. The light to medium body seemed a little too thin. It was dry with tingly carbonation and a dry and moderate to heavy astringent finish.
BoBoChamp (735), Gent, Belgium
Jul 27, 2008 33cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex Winter brew, balanced, cloudy, rocky head, good brew
heemer77 (3786), Savannah, Missouri, USA
Jul 2, 2008 From a 330 ml bottle. Nearly half the bottle went all over my desk. I had let it sit outside of the fridge for about 30 minutes, obviously, that was about 30 minutes too long. Couldy dark, rusty brown with a now light tan and orange head. The aroma is bready and malty with some notes of the ginger. There is also a cocoa base under that. The taste has some light chocolate underlying everythign else. There is some cinnamon and also a mild citrus notes. Overall, a decent brew that is a little bit spicy.
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