De la Senne Equinox Winter Beer

Brewed by Brasserie de la Senne
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Draft at teresa’s with Evan, pours plum color with medium off whit head, good lacing. Notes of dark fruit, malt, spice, chocolate dust, grapes, and fig. Medium body with assertive carbonation. As refreshing as an 8 percent belgian can be.

Bottle. Brown pour with a kaki head. Sour aromas. Somewhat sour with a malt over tones and a mild hoppy bitterness. Decent body and mouthfeel.

Draft at Monks. Very dark orange-brown with some off-white foam up top. Lots of malt. Very nice dark red fruit flavors backed with chocolate. Full but not syrupy. Nutella. Plums. Molasses. Cocoa dusted dark cherries. Excellent - but additionally exceptional that such a dark winter brew tastes so good cold as well as warm.

Bottle. Pours a near-black brown body with a bronze hue and a massive creamy off-white head. Nose is grains, caramel, chocolate, deep malts and hints of raisins and candy sugar. Taste is bitter herbal tones up front, then dark chocolate, grains and burnt sugar follows. Quite bitter and sweet at the same time, without the best of integration on any level. Hints of floral yeasty notes and dry grass in the finish. Full body, high carbonation. Not bad, but then again not exactly my kind of beer.

33 cl. bottle as Zwarte Piet, 8.2 % abv. Poured in to a snifter. Dark brown colour with a reddish hue. Dense, creamy off-white head, extra credits for the label. Fruity aroma with roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, prunes and yeasts - fermenting fruit, Complex - good. Taste is bitter - herbal hops. Medium to full body, very creamy. Finishes dry with long lasting roasted malts, herbal hops, coffee and chocolate. Well made fusion between stout and Belgian Ale.

Awesome brew. Basically an Belgian imperial Stout with a flourish of Belgian flavor b and yeast notes. Big roasted and toffee flavors with light dried and caddied sugars, molasses and brown sugar. Just a delight.

Bottle at FWIBF. Pours a deep brown with moderate khaki head. Aroma is cigar smoke and ash with some slight hop notes. Taste is cigar ashes, malt, some toffee and coffee notes. Meh.

31.05.2013, 0,33l bottle (labeled Zwarte Piet) @ home: Big creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly roasted, dark malts, coffee, chocolate, roasted grain, hay, dark sugar. Taste is roasted and dry, dark malts, coffee, hay, cardboard, harsh grass, burnt caramel. Longlasting medium bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Fair enough.

Bottle from Kihoskh cons 2013-05-28 Göteborg AR: chocolate, wee yeasty, coffee AP: dark ruby red, high stouthy fizzy steady beige head F: fizzy, dark chocolate, wee red fruits, high bitterness, finishes dark chocolate

I prefer the other delasenne brews. This one is quite complex in taste. Chocolate, malts, a bit smoked, bitterness. Quite good, but i prefer their stouterik or black in japan..