Belzebuth

Orange/Brown Coloring. No Head. Barley, Herbs..Citrus and "Holy Alc Haul Batman!!" Drinkable But Gets you To the Happy Place Without Having to Worry about Volume...

Very clear, dark honey-amber coloured; slim white rim. Quite sweet and caramelly nose, alcohol only comes in at the end. Nose is very fleeting, poorly developed. Sweet, nutty taste, caramel-covered cookies with nuts, something like a liquid Milky-Way bar, but inarguably finer – with an incense-like flavour. There’s alcohol in the taste – no doubt, but it’s especially the MF that gets a numbing shock… Slick, oily and burning. Alcohol disguises the body fullness. Long syrupy aftertaste. It’s still a sipping beer, but I have the strange impression it’s more refined than the 15% original – if that one really attained this value in the bottle as on paper.

Tasted the 13% version. Head almost non-existent, white and very low, but leaving some traces on my glass. Red-brown body. I was afraid it would taste alcoholic, but it was not the case. It’s a strong beer, and not one I’d drink in the morning (it got me almodt drunk). What I noticed most is the aroma : dark chocolate and roated nuts. An original experience indeed.

Pale gold, clear and with a white head that fades fast. Sweet grain and malt nose with some alcohol noticable. Heavey in the mouth with sweetness throughout and a lingering finish inwhich the alcohol becomes noticeable. Malty with some alcohol but in the end not a lot of descirnable flavors. Not bad though to help warm one up!

Bottle #666 (On Halloween no less) pours a fairly clear pale golden, medium foamy white head, lively carbonation, with spotty lacing.   Fairly strong grainy aroma, along witih alcohol.   Slightly grainy on first sip, but amazingly smooth for 13%.   Fairly malty as well.   Good body, slightly syrupy mouthfeel.   Finishes sweet, corn syrup sweet, with some malts and a touch of alcohol.   Nothing amazing or complex, but for 13% it seems rather palatable.

Thin head of quickly reducing foam. Light carbonation. Acidic aroma of tomatoes. As it warms, caramel and alcohol become more prominent. Full, meaty aroma. Color is a slightly cloudy dark amber. Big time sweetness in the flavor. Brown sugar and caramel. Bit of smoke and alcohol. Big aclohol warming and tingle as it goes down. Somewhat of a gimmick beer but interesting. Not one that I would probably try again though.

Finally Bellingham is host to a bottle shop, and this is the first thing I’ve had from this wonderful new establishment. Very very interesting. Complete malt profile here: thick honey, dried fruit, tobacco-like mouthfeel, and a finish that never goes away. The alchohol, although high, is almost imperceptable beneath all the malt. This is specificaly for malt lovers, as there is very little else happening here, but for those of you out there this is worth having.

Sent as a part of BIF 13 (from hell) by BeerAdvocate drewbage, the labeling certainly fit the theme perfectly. The orange yellow body looked very nice in the Pilsner glass with a two inch creamy head sitting atop it, and leaving decent lace considering the strength of the liquid. The aroma was very sweet, with bananas and orange peel hiding the high ABV very nicely. The taste was warm and soft, with soothing liquor like quality to it. It was not inherently complex, but instead let the alcohol make things interesting with some spicy and sweet notes carried through. A little thin on the palette, and malt liquor like in the sugar derived alcohol strength. Although one dimensional, this is not a bad beer to try once in a while.