Caulier Bon Secours Blonde de Noël

Brewed by Caulier
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Péruwelz, Belgium

Bottle, Brussels, May 2005. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy dark yellow, bottle conditioned. Aroma is moderately malty (bread, grain, cookie), with notes of banana and vanilla. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Medium to full body, velvety/creamy texture, lively carbonation, moderately alcoholic. A big, super-sweet, alcohol-heavy brew.

(Bottled) Hazy yellow-golden color with a huge, firm and lacy, Duvelish head. Fruity, perfumy and yeasty aroma with berries, some alcohol and toffeeish sugar. Cloying sweet alcohol and toffee flavor with moderate yeastiness and hints of fruit. Medium-bodied, cloying palate with foamy but smooth carbonation. Who the heck has authorized brewing of such a cloying strong ale...?

Bottle. Crispy white high and lasting head. Probably wheat. Hazy light yellow body. Banana alcohol aroma. Heavy ticke on the tongue. A lot of carbon dioxide and some alcohol. Flavor otherwise relatively sweet. Not enough though to hide the hgh alcohol percentage.

swingtop bottle, at the end of it’s shelf life. almost clear golden, small offwhite head. slight sour aroma, spicy, strong. flavor is spicy, fruity, boozy, citrussy, old beer. this bottle was best before about the same time that we sampled it, and it had distinct flavors due to old beer, so don’t keep it. better fresh.

Orange color and strong fruity-spicey aroma. Flavour is dominated by alcohol, but is sweet. Has a farily sharp taste.

Botella. Pours a hazy brown colour, medium short lasting off-white head. Sweet, grainy, malty, yeasty and caramel aroma. Ok mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet and malty with grains, yeast, alcohol and light spice. Bit too old this brew.

Credited as Bon Secours de Noël. Draught. Strange bonbon aroma. Yellow boring colour, no head. Very weet flavour with some weird aftertaste.

Hazy amber-honey hue, with an off-white head, super sweet honeyed pale malt nose, with a spicy vanilla accent, with a kind of a warming maple syrup note, from the candi sugar, and a faint floral hop aroma follows through on a full-bodied palate with an a big sweet honeyish pale malt alcoholic character, with a touch of vanilla, a bit buttery too, still has his maple syrup kind of sweetness, from the huge amount of candi sugar added, with a fruity hint of caramelized ripe apples, leading towards a sweet warming honey finsh.