3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a dark red/brown color with a towering head. Spiced nose. The taste was a good mix of rich malt and spice with a little bread. I didn’t think this was as bad as this site has sometimes made it out to be, but nor is it the world’s greatest.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
1.5L magnum from 2000. Shared with company on new years eve 2004. Champagne like pop of the cork. Hazy chestnut color with a tan head. Musky, wood cork smell. Light to medium bodied. Nice carbonation. The taste mirrors the smell with the oak / cork flavor.This brew didn’t age as well as I’d expected. Still not bad, though
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: JUN 13, 2004 Beautifull head, it remains quite thick. Spicy smell. Complex taste, malt, spices, fruits. Soft aftertaste with hints of alcohol.
#Rerate May 1, 2003. After having sampled 1983, '88, '93, '97, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03 and the Millenium Edition. The older the beer, the more fruitier, the more port-like and certainly more alcoholic. After 10 years of aging there isn't much taste-change anymore. After about half a year - year the beer is so much fuller of taste; it's a waste to drink rather new chimays. Just let them rest for a while. The Millenium edition isn't great imo compared with the '99 and '00 editions; it's a bit more muffy and superficial. My rating is based on the 3-4 year old chimays.
Rerate june 2004. This beer is great as described above but it is certainly not a 4.9 as I rated this one before.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUN 24, 2011 Bottle. Dark brown body with tan head. Flavour is malt, caramel, sugar, dark fruit, yeast and hops.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Courtsey of Tony @ OTH.
Pours brown/amber, with brownish head.
Aroma, filled with dark fruits and sugar.
Taste, dark druits (cherry / prune) and malty. Los of sugar / licorice sweetness.
Excellent balance, close to a Westie12, a little darker in content and texture.
This is a big beer, very drinkable, a good sipper, gets better as it warms up.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a hazy darker brown with a large size bubbly head. Aroma of dark fruits, belgian yeast, candy sugars. Flavors of the same with some roasted malts and some light citrus that I didn’t really pick up in the aroma. Lively on the tongue. A lot going on in the aroma and flavor.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle pours brown with reddish hues, large off-white fluffy head, small yeasties floating about, with fairly sticking lacing but no carbonation. Aroma is of spices and apple/pear, maybe a light plum and raisin tinge as it warms. Flavor is earthy, slightly nutty, maybe some of that light plum or raisin flavor. Good body and mouthfeel, and that 9% ABV isn’t even noticable. Finishes with the typical belgian yeasty flavor, along with the spices. This is one easy drinking, readily available, knock your socks off Belgian Strong Ale!
4.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
In the bar in the Renaissance Hotel, Brussels. Dark brown colour and thick, long-lasting beige head. That typical yeasty Belgian aroma always seems to precede a delicious taste, and this is no exception. It was pure luxury: strong, sweet and alcoholic. There was a slight bitterness in the aftertaste, but it wasn’t a particularly large element in the experience of this beer. Superb.
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