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Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Diksmuide, Belgium

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RATINGS: 1246   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.9   SEASONAL: Winter   EST. CALORIES: 360   ABV: 12%
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Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers brewed for Christmas. It has the highest density of any Belgian beer (27°Pl), has been boiling for 5 hours, brewed with pale malt with white candi sugar in the kettle. The Nugget hops and dry hopping gives an extra bitterness to balance the extreme sweetness due to the density. The taste triangle is completed with some acidity of the fermentation. It is a very interesting beer to age. We have samples of every bottling we have done so far and aging does not mean decreasing quality with this beer. Keep some samples at 10°C and mark the year on the cap with an alcohol marker. Cheers!!


4.2
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 18/20
bonfunck (149) - Waasmunster, - OCT 28, 2008
bottle @ dulle griet , ghent a Strong flavour of alcohol, malt and hops. can be kept for 20 years or longer;

3.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
saxo (8430) - Højbjerg, Aarhus, DENMARK - MAY 27, 2012
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich dried fruits, candy sugar, malt, notes of alcohol and hops. Nice and warming.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
Blairgus (1189) - California, USA - MAY 25, 2012
25 may 2012, bottle. Light yellow, clear, some sediment. Nose is sweet, tart Belgian yeast. Thin body and a bit fizzy. Sugary, slightly tart Belgian strong ale and yeast. Nice. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

3.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
Lowenbrau (346) - SPAIN - MAY 19, 2012
330ml bottle. Yeast, herbaceous aromas. Pours dark gold,with nice white head, non long-lasting, some lacing. Medium body and average carbonation. Taste is malty, caramel, somespicy, alcohol noticed, but well balanced and rounded. Tasty and worthy one.

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
Westmeister (589) - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - MAY 14, 2012
Sample. Color dark orange with small head. Aroma caramel, spicy, yeast, fruit, froral. Taste spicy, hop, fruits, alcohol, sweet.

3.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
atoledo (11) - SPAIN - MAY 8, 2012
Una cerveza compleja y bastante fuerte. Esta mejor dejándola un tiempo, ya que probamos una con año y otra con 2 años y habían perdido parte del toque de alcohol.

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
BlackHaddock (1709) - Shropshire, ENGLAND - MAY 8, 2012
From BA: Brewed in 2006, drank early 2007. Small 33ml brown bottle, this is the 12% version, so may not follow others reviews, poured into a Hoegaarden Grand Cru large tulip glass. Impressive slightly off white, huge head, which hung around for some time. The head sat on a almost hazy yellow body of liquid. Although this is classed as a dark ale, it is fairly light in appearance, even if you allow the sediment to get into your glass. Aroma of sour yeast, citrus fruits, strong and heavy, with vanilla and bannanas in the mix somewhere too. Taste is both bitter and sour, tart with a fizzy yeasty flavour which gives the beer an overall pleasing, refreshing feel to it. The flavours stay in the mouth for a while, giving this beer a good strong mouthfeel, the yeast flavour stays the longest, leaving a bitter, truely yeasty taste in your mouth, at 12% you would expect it to hang around in the mouth though, wouldn’t you? Very good beer, couldn’t drink it all night (without falling over), but a fine example of what Belgium can produce.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 11/20
Yorker (97) - Århus, DENMARK - MAY 4, 2012
33 cl bottle @ home. Pours amber with a white head that fades leaving a little lacing. Aroma is sugar, yeast, malt and sour fruits. Taste is sugary and yeasty with a bit of warming alcohol.

4.2
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
kryon (267) - SWEDEN - APR 28, 2012
Had this on bottle at ölbutikken. Pours light amber with frizzy dissappearing head Aromas of belgian yeast barley and oak. Some sour fruits. Round sweet mouthfeel. alcohol. Some grape some belgo yeast in taste but general a very nice and sweet almost perfect beer

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
deekyn (301) - Yosemite, California, USA - APR 18, 2012
A - pours clear golden apple juice with high white head. S - aromas of yeast, apricot,pineapple, bubble gum, peaches, and barnyard funk, and alcohol. M - lively carbed brew, medium bodied with very fill palate. T - bubble gum, belgian yeasts, apples up front. Barnyard funk, pineapple, sweet malts on the palate. Lingering alcohol warmed maltiness. O - very good strong Belgian, complex and not overly sweet. 7+

4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 19/20
ration (551) - Tampere, FINLAND - APR 13, 2012
Bottle. Pours clear copper with a high head. Aroma Belgian hops, grass. Plumes, raisins. Medium palate. Not Bad.


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