Alvinne Melchior

Brewed by Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Moen, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottled
Extremely lively bottle: almost all foam and it was "exploiding" when opened. Hazy amber-orange color, huge cloudy head and lots of lace. Herbal hoppy nose with clear barnyardish notes. Liquerish palate. Of course powerful alcohol is present, but it is not burning as expected for 11 % brew, more like warming in the aftertaste. Flavor has candy sugar, plums and some licorice. Like in aroma, you can also taste countryside here. Sweet edge in the finish. Very potential beer for ageing, already now quite mellow, but may improve over the years.

Bottle - 330ml. Nice hazy golden/orange body with a thin white foamy head. Well balanced malty/hoppy aroma with apple and flowery hints. Alcohol is perfectly hidden. Taste is surprisingly mild for a 11% ABV beer. It carries yeasty and fruity notes. Ends with a long bittersweet finish. Good stuff.

Bottled. Hazy nutbrown colour, mediumsized beige creamy head. Aroma is fruits, honey blueberries/raspberries/strawberries and some slight yeast. Flavour is leather, yeast, a lot of spices and some caramel malts. A rather twisted brew, but at the same time very pleasant.

a murky brown with a small off-white head. lots of caramel flavors, lots of alcohol, lots of hops. slight bitterness. has the consistency of v8 juice. good.

33cl bottle from Dranken Geers. Hazy amber, some floaters, lasting thick beige head. Belgian yeast syrupy malt and hoppy aroma. Raisiny juicy sultana fruity aroma dominates. Reasonably smooth in the mouth, good smooth fruit and then really very hoppy on the finish for a Belgian beer. For an 11% beer, the alcohol isn’t obvious at all. Aroma gets a 7, interesting yeast character, appearance only a 2, the flavour is amazingly smooth. Seems to be a very settled beer. But the best thing is the palate and the finish. Silky smooth on the swallow with some fine carbonation and then this biting stinging hop that just sings beautifully on the end. Really interesting characterful beer with an amazingly good mouthfeel and I cannot speak highly enough of that hoppy finish. Tastes dry hopped in the bottle if that was possible.

Bottle at Københavnske øldage 07. Golden brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, alcohol, dried fruits. Flavour is sweet, alcohol, cellar notes, dried fruits. Nice sweet beer.

<i>From a 330mL Bottle.</i> Mostly hazy, golden orange colored pour with a thick layer of small bubbled, white foam. Bold mustard aromas jump out of the glass immediately; strange, but they work pleasantly well to compliment the apricot fruity esters kicked off by the yeast. Spicy. A nice doughy malt character lies beneath the mustard, along with some moderate alcohol. Medium light bodied, moderately carbonated mouthfeel with a soft, creamy texture. A light, milky malt sweetness greets the palate first, along with some herbal hop flavors. The mustard flavors are very subtle in the background, and don’t really make an appearance until the back end, where they present themselves as a nutty, stone ground mustard light spiciness. Some pear and banana esters add some dimension to the otherwise simple trio of bready malt, alcohol, and herbal hops. Finishes lightly spicy, with a lingering mustard flavor. Unique, interesting, enjoyable beer. I might have liked a bit more mustard in the flavor, and maybe a bit less in the nose. I wish I could have sampled this with some bratwurst and sauerkraut; that would have made a tasty pairing.

Second mustard beer in our two mustard beer tasting. It pours hazy deep gold with copper hues and thin off white head. The light aroma has notes of Belgian sugar, lighter colored fruity esters, some dark fruit esters and a hint of mustard. The taste is slick and sweet and moves toward dark fruity esters and a mild background, OK faint background, of mustard spice. I also get some yeasty spice and faint banana. Like the other mustard beer the mustard spice is just too faint. This would taste a whole lot better with a bigger mustard presence.

Bottle. Marmalade pour hanging with bits and lacing miraculously at the strength. Beautiful appetising citrus notes leaking from a dense but subsiding white collar; tangerine, juniper, celery, lime pickle. Certainly something herbal, sweet and sourish there I wouldn’t have identified as mustard; dill or horseradish, maybe. Alcohol completely secondary to the hop citrus, candy and gelatinous tang. Milky slick in the mouth, alcohol immediately apparent, blending into soapy citrus, almost grapefruit in the finish. Ends up lean and dry for the style and strength, dangerously so. A couple of pints of this seems perfectly feasible. Golden Ale Eisbock. Hops tanging and intact, some late biscuity malts chipping in. Resins and ethanol in every swill. Good sessions beer.

Bottle. A cloudy orange beer with a medium sized, almost creamy, mostly diminishing white head. The aroma is moderately malty, lightly hoppy and yeasty with notes of fruits (pear, plum, maybe some berries), some spices and alcohol. The flavour is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Quite slick and velvetty. Medium to full body, lively carbonation, long finish with medium bitterness, moderately alcoholic. Interesting and rather drinkable.