Braven Apostel Kerstbier

Brewed by De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Lochristi - Hijfte, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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33cl bottle from Geers. BB 16/06/2014. Brune acajou, col fin beige. Arôme malt grillé, caramel, fruité noir et mélasse. Palais garde ce côté prenant malté grillé, limite liquoreux, caramel avec des notes de sucre candi et ce profile très belge. Qcq épices, fruité noir, sec et grains laissant un léger fini collant aux lèvres allant vers la mélasse.

From under the stairs. Pours mahogany with a collapsing beige head. Aroma of swimming pool water (briefly), port and overripe plum, red apple scattered with spice (cinnamon), bubblegum, malt loaf and cherry coke. Malt loaf dunked in cherry coke flavour with a faint warm of alcohol, chocolate and prune hints..more bubblegum. Seductive Belgian sipper wafting with spice, yeast, dried fruits and muscovado. There’s just enough roast and darkness there to balance it. Proef really don’t make much crap. And if this doesn’t get you feeling just a teensy bit festive you’re probably going to need more than a beer.

Dark brown color with a small light brown head. Ok smell, decent taste. Very nice warming alcohol. Good carbo, medium body.

Bottle, bought @ Delirium, Brussels.
Pours deep dark brown with a medium, creamy beige head. Fizzy at first, then settles nice and creamy. Aroma is vinious, caramel, coriander, brown sugar, plums, raisins, cloves. Medium carbonation, fine creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is mildly cocoa-powder dry, some coriander, chocolate, Belgian sugar, plums. Mild vinious with some slight sticky sweetness. Fine beer.

Pours out dark brown with a head that sticks nice to the glass, but colapses way to quick. The smell is liquour, alcohol, malts, caramel. A bit unpleasant warming alcohol. The taste starts sweet caramel, malts and spices. The yeast gets trough slowly, the aftertaste is better, more moderated then the actual taste. Full of taste, but not completely my stuff.

330 ml bottle a dark brown colored beer with a white head aroma malts caramel dry fruits some spices taste malts caramel dry fruits and liqueur

Very dark brown coloured beer with a small off white head and very little carbonation. Malty roasted and light sweet caramel hinted aroma. Full creamy palate. Finish is bitter malty, creamy and roasted touched. Longer creamy and malty bitterish ending. Nice.

Bottle that I picked up at Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, 31-10-09 consumed 09-12-09 Pours dark, dark murky brown with a small cappucino coloured and shaped head, this soon shrunk to a leave a slight film of beige across the top. Sweet mollassess on the nose with a slight twang and a little yeast. This is a lovely simple beer, soft, nice warmth from the alcohol at the back of the mouth, lovely dark sugars, good stuff. A7 A4 F8 P4 Ov15 3.8

dark brown coloured body with a off white head a malty fruity aroma a sweet malty fruity caramel taste with a malty bitter finish

Darkbrown coloured beer with small off-white head and medium carbonation. Fruity sweet bit malty aroma. Full palate, sparkling. Finish is malty roasted ending bitter and dry.