Bottle. Pours brown with a frothy cream head. Aroma of clove, milk chocolate, esters, and dark fruit. Flavor has subdued sweetness, with some underlying hop character. Beautiful creamy and complex flavors fun throughout this beer. I tasted yeast, chocolate, clove and dark fruit in there, all blended very well. Charlevoix doesn’t try to do anything flashy with this brew, just sticks to basics and produces a handsome beer. For $3.99 Canadian, this is a real steal.

<b>In short: </b>An herbal and spicy &#40;cloves mainly&#41; belgian dark ale. Very good.<br /> <b>How: </b>Bottle 500ml, many many many times. This rating for a 1 year old bottle<br /> <b>The look: </b>Cloudy dark burgundy body topped by a persistent large beige head<br /> <b>In long: </b>Nose is floral and spicy with tulips, lilacs, cloves and other herbs. Taste is more of the same. Well malted, yeasty, fluffy but overall a bit too much on the spicy/floral front. Caramel and toffee almost harmoniously blend-in with the cloves and overall herbal/spicy nature of the beer. For the style this beer offers very little in the way of fruity flavours. I think there has been more than one batch of this beer because I remember having it less spicy. As many of the past ratings testify I’ve been sending a lot of these across the border and got a lot of credits for that, and with the current economic situation that’s about all the credit I can get these days.

500ml from Glouglouburp - thanks, Dany&#033; Very nice pour, hefty and deep ruby/brown with a very full carbonation, lively and lasting with a foamy head. The nose is scrumptious, fruity, pert and spicy hops, with a slight musk in there. Full mouthfeel with the dark fruits dancing on the tongue and a rather lengthy, just slightly dry finish - heavy autumnal vibe, like dried leaves with some herbs and spices. Really very fine.

My favorite of the night. Lots of dark fruits and some spice on the aromas. Flavors of more spice and caramel flavors. I actually think I got some spearmint in that aroma. Nice beer.

500ml bottle shared by fordest&#40;thanks&#41;. Pours a translucent copper color with a small white head. The nose is distinct with aromatic herbs, spices and a bit of malted grain. The spices really rule in this brew, nearly all the dubbel character is hidden, cloves and mint leaves dominate the flavor set in a malt backdrop. The mouthfeel is silky with lively carbonation. The finish is long with lingering mint. Overall: It must have taken a lot of experimentation for the brewer to come up with this one, and they pulled it off. A winner.