2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Nice glowing copper orange colour, but that's where the compliments end. Alcoholic sweet malt aroma with some charred wood notes. After that its just alcohol and sugary sweetness. The alcohol burn as it goes down is giving me indigestion, just like a cheap rum. Leaves a syrupy coating in the mouth. You can't argue with the commercial description, but it's just not very pleasant. Bottled (250ml)
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Tasted the 15% version. Amber in color with a small head. Alcohol, alcohol, and alcohol - dominates smell and taste with some fruitiness.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Orange/brown colour with an off-white head. Flavour is sweet, alcohol, fruit, camfer, malt.
2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Fruchtiger bananiger Geruch. Bei beeindruckenden 13% hab ich etwas anders erwartet. Süß, besonders im Nachgeschmack, fuselig, trocken, nichtssagend. "Pur Malt" - dafr ist es meiner Meinung nach recht wenig malzig. Dieses Bier hats irgendwie nicht drauf.
Test vom 8.2.2006, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 12,5,7,4,12,5 - 6,20
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from 2000, at 15%. Orange amber ale with no head. Sweetish strong rubbing alcohol aroma. A strong alcohol start, with aniseed, but astringent and dry in mouth. Unidimensional. Dégustation de Vieux Stocks III, Oct. 13, 2006.
1.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
UPDATED: APR 22, 2007 15% version: Pours a lifeless copper with a thin off-white head. All I can say is pure alcohol. Has some malty complexity but it is so quickly burned off my tounge that I’m not even sure it’s there. This could learn a lesson from Dogfish Head.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
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.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours with a small white head and a hazy golden body. Aroma of cork, must, alcohol. Pear, candi sugar, wet dog, vanilla and saw dust. Light diacetyl. Taste is sweet, pear, messy, candi sugar, pepper, a bit cloying. Alcoholic, dry and lively carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Fumes of coal float on its surface along with pear syrup…Somewhat enticing…But once in the mouth, WHAM!!, the alcohol hits you with no mercy!!…Diagnosis : Fracture of the taste buds…With time, a cast of oranges and flowers slowly bring them back to health, but a scar of brandy or port wine lingers for quite a while…
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Too sweet for my hops loving taste buds. Sugar is to the fore rather than any great complexity. I will always choose Duvel over this.
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