Dégusté dans un verre tulippe entre 4 et 10 degré celcius. Bière brun foncé ambré avec reflet orngé cuivré. Bonne mousse de couleur caramel doux. Senteur de malt, de pelure d’orange, d’alcool, d’anis, de canelle, de lactose, de vanille et de banane verte vers la fin. Ronde et crémeuse en bouche avec amertume moyenne. Un goût de clou de giroffe, de sucre brun et de caramel au beurre légèremment poivré.

[Bottle] Pours a cloudy brown with a medium large head of small brown bubbles that lingers. Aroma is lots of spices - cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and a touch of fruitiness. Flavor is nutmeg, lots of black licorice, cinnamon, and a fruity finish. Alcohol is only evident by the warming feeling in the back of my throat, but is quite nice. Leaves a touch of tartness on the sides of the tongue as well.

Thanks MartinT! This beer was fantastic! Poured hazy dark brown body, huge beige froathy head what diminishes slowly. Spicy aroma with vanilla, milk chocolate, clove and cinnamon, fine dried fruits. Complex aroma and a rich flavor! Fantastic fruity mouthfeel, well hidden alcohol. Chocolate and vanilla, sweet caramel malt with fine roasted grains, nice spicies like clove and cinnamon. Nice hop pushes through the finish, aftertaste is complex like the flavor. I love this beer!

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 (cloves mainly) 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.