3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle: Pours a deep brown color, with a thick fluffy browinish cappucino head. Cloudy to the point I cant see clearly through my shaker glass (yeah yeah wrong glassware, but when in college you dont spend any extra money, you ’borrow’ from drinking establishments around town). The aroma is cofee, figs, chocolate, molassas, caramel, grapes, brown sugar, to name a few. Lots of aromas, none too overpowering, all nice and mild, yet complex. Quite wonderful. The flavor isn’t as strong and complex as the flavor, but very good. Milder than I thought it would be, but nice. The only negatve point is the calories and the very sweet body.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Systembolaget. I don’t have a lot of experience with trappist beers overall and I must admit that this is not really my kind of beer. Pours a brownish colour with a thin foam. Taste is slightly sweet with hints of caramel, hardly any bitterness.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Seethru light reddish brown with fluffy tan foam. Aroma is mainly dark sugar, earthiness and dates. Taste is butterscotch, muscavadosugar and alcohol. No noticable hops just some to balance out sweetness. Still mostly sweet tasting however. Medium to full body, some sweet stickyness, average carbonation. Overall it´s a pretty good beer but a bit alcoholic and not enough complexity. Liked last bit the best when I poured the yeast in, took away some sweetness. Overtly sweet, simple flavors and a bit alcoholic and no hop aroma is this beers mayor drawbacks in my opinion.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: JAN 28, 2011 0.33l bottle. Pours dark, unclear, thick brown with a small head. Looks like there is a lot of carbonation, but on second look I can see it’s lots of tiny sedments. Quite anonomys nose, but you can sense the yeast and perhaps a hint of pare. Tastes some what alcohol, but just enough to give you a warm feeling. Strong, almost chilli-like, and dry aftertaste. I quite like this beer.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Served into a Westmalle chalice
The bottle is from 2010
A:Dark cola brown, with a small head and patchy lace, small visible carbonation
S: Yeast, Sweet raisins, alcohol.
T: Brown sugar, raisins, bitter ending, warming alcohol, medium carbonation.
Overall a very good beer but with no special traits it’s like a generic Trappist if possible, the flavors tends to mud against each other. But still a very good one
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours dark caramel color. Fruit and yeast aroma. Taste is smooth roasted malt with only a slight bitter hoppiness. Complex beer with fruit notes - especially raisin and plum.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a reddish brown. Aromas include, prunes, caramel and (perhaps a little too much) alcohol. Tastes a bit sweet for the flavors involved, but is slightly roasty, caramel (for lack of a better descriptor) and fermenting prunes/beets. Aftertaste is vaguely sweet, but primarily bitter with a hint of hops. I think it’s the overbearing alcohol and lack of Belgian yeast flavors, but I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, still a decentish strong Belgian.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Small bottle. First time to rate this after drinking it many, many times. Nice caramel flavor, great balance. A very nice beer, though not truly amazing. Still a solid big Belgian.
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