Corsendonk Christmas Ale

Brewed by Du Bocq
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

[LCRBM] sweet nose, chocolate, toffee, some hazelnuts, also fruit, some cherry slightly spiced, cinnamon. good body finish is both sour and slightly bitter.

Black pour until you hold it up to the light, then there is some red/brown. Head was huge creme froth. Aroma is a little alcoholy. Flavor is very smooth. Dark fruit with a little alcohol as it warms.

Ver dense, dark winter brew with nice malty taste with some vanillaish hints and a bit smoky finish, my bottle was lacking a head, but still very good.

Rasins and other dried fruit. Centered with a slight sour note that did not sit well on the roasted malts. Not what I was expecting and not a re-try.

12 oz bottle. Clean light brown beer with coppery highlights. Delicious candi sugar aroma, some toffee, light ginger, sweet plummy special B and a bit of orange zest. Falvour is less compelx than the aroma would have suggested. Sweet caramel, special B fruitiness but some farily astringent spiciness as well. Finishes quite bitter and hoppy. In back of the malts there is a nice sprucey flavour. As it warms the maltiness intensifies a bit, decent richness and a bit of honey flavour behind all the darker malts. Some spicy yeastiness.

Pours deep brown with reddish hue, carbonation and medium tan, foaming, lacing head. Nutbread, sweet malty aroma. Sweet malty brown sugar flavor. Medium, non-descript palate.

pours a darker amber color with a nice sized off white head, aroma of malts, belgian style spices, and alcohol, the taste is similar to its aroma a nice mix, not a bad beer at all, nice body, worth a try.

Bottled. Redbrown in colour with a tan head. An aroma that is fruity wih hints of caramel. The flavour is sweetish.