 dkachur (640), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
May 15, 2008
250 mL bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Pours a dark amber with a medium-small head. Fruity aroma... dark fruits, toffee, alcohol. Taste is very much the same, with a little bit of pepper and nuttiness. Warming. Very nice.
plovmand (415), Helsinge, Denmark
Jul 21, 2008 On tap at Kulminator, Antwerp.
Pours dark amber with a creamy longlasting white head. Spicy aroma like cinnamon with some sweetness like banana. Very complex taste with dark fruits, spices, brown sugar and a little alcoholic bite at the end. Great stuff.
BoBoChamp (255), Gent, Belgium
Jul 21, 2008 25cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex X-Mas brew, very heavy, clear, good head, good brew, more balanced than the regular Bush
Doggythedog (919), Split, Croatia
Jul 19, 2008 Courtesy of and shared with heavy (thanks!).
Dark amber-orange body, bigoff-white head. Malty nose, grainy, with distinct alcohol. Malty taste again, sweetish grain, alcohol present but less noticable than in the taste. Not my type of beer I guess as I don’t like it when alcohol shows and it certainly did here. It’s ok enough, a fine beer, but not too flashy.
KawaBomber (132), New Jersey, USA
Jul 14, 2008 8.48oz Bottle, ’07: Ruddy brown w/ a small biege head. Aroma is of caramel malts w/ a hint of alcohol. Perhaps Noel is Belgian for alcohol, which really kind of kills anything else that may be going on in this one. Lousy way to end this tasting, that’s for sure...
heavy (406), Split, Croatia
Jul 14, 2008 0.25 l bottle from belgianshop.com. It was nice looking at idyllic snow covered houses when we had over 30°C that night. Not actually real time to taste this, but it0’s nice to imagine it’s Christmas :) Anyway, it poured clear copper body with smaller head. Malty aroma, flowery, with some sourish hop notes, but in so industrial way it greatly reminds of a malt liquor. Flavor is not less industrial, even more, so that ugly sweetness dominates and killing other (possible) flavors inside. It’s not possible to cover all the alcohol just that simple, for sure, although it’s pretty well hidden. Medium body with oily texture. Long, overly sweet alcoholic finish. So this should be like a great beer...noo way! I don’t like Bush anyway :)
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