Alvinne Eycken Balthazar

Formerly brewed at Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Moen, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle at PreZBF at Alvinne. Cloudy orange brown coloured with a small off white head. Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits and fruits. Fruity flavour of liquorice, ginger, spices and oak with notes of wine. Spicy and oaky finish.

UPDATED: MAR 25, 2009 33 cL bottle. Who ever thought ginger in beer is a good thing? Pours clear and golden orange with a fully gone head. Ginger and cardemomme aroma. Citric and ginger dense flavoured. Mild bitter and slight acidic flavoured. Spiced and malty flavoured into the finish. I cannot pinpoint anything wrong with this - apart from ginger :)

Re-tasted from bottle 33cl. on sat. 24.01.09. @ Alvinne brewery. Special redbrown color with creamy almost beige head. Aroma sweet, fruity, oak. Medium body. Taste fruits, oak, complex, wood notes, sweetness.

Bottled. Aroma has malts, cherry, bubblegum, bit portlike, some wood perhaps. Complex enough. Clear, brown coloured with a lasting, off-white head. The taste is sweet, a little sour. It has raisin malts, cherries, some spiciness. Good beer.

Bottle 0,33ltr: Brown coloured thats matured in oak-vessel i think. Slightly sour and its have also a woody/winey taste.

Bottle 33cl.
Clear medium brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light lgiht heavy malty, caramel, spicy, star anis, black berries, wood, oak, brown sugar, raisin and prune notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet, light acidic and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081214]

A clear dark red/brown colored beer, with a small, thick beige head. The aroma of fruits, like cherries, a little sour, malt, buttery and clove. The taste of dark fruits like cherry and prunes. There is wood and spices like clove. the aftertaste is bitter, a little sour and warm.

Very dark brown with lasting beige head. Malty buttery and reminds me of hot buttered toast. Quite fruity. Bit of wood on aroma. Very complex. Lots of sappy buttery wood. Not my kind of thing though even though most other people really enjoyed this.

UPDATED: SEP 2, 2009 Bottle from De Bierloods. Cola to murky ruby with persistent yellowy froth. Ripe humming Pannepot-like wafts of plum, liquorice and Strawberry Hubba Bubba, joined by Jagermeister, coal smoke, sesame oil, walnut, clove, pine needle, peppermint taking over as it warms. Complexity by the bucketload. Plenty more plum fruit beyond the nose, liquorice, underpinning roasty malts, oak of course, Bourbon, toasted seeds, clovey antiseptic notes, peppermint again. Hazelnut and alcohol glow on the swallow. Slick, milky, sour-bitter and a touch lactic. Leans a bit heavily towards mouthwash territory, but a seductive glowy brew with unusual herbal spicing and the malt backbone to carry it.