De Ranke Père Noël

Glowing, hazy orange/copper.Giant, frothy white cap. A few chunks of yeast rest at the bottom. Musty yeast aroma with spices, grainy malt, and crisp hops. Same flavor. Medium, well carbonated body. Very nice brew. I suppose the catch-all "belgian ale" category is the only way to classify this one.

Tap at Mahar’s. Vegetable like coriander peel flavor. Food like, spicy, typical belgian spices, cinnamon apple nose. amber with very little head.

on tap at The Moan and Dove. poured into a 6oz wine glass. light amber with a small white hue lining the glass. Nose of citrus--lemon and lime zest, yeast, and grassy wheat. taste has more yeast, citrus, and nice hop bite. a nice belgian ale from de ranke.

Dear god this was expensive! On tap, chalice glass, at the brickskeller. Hearty, slightly bitter, clovery hints of richness. A lot to handle, though drinkable, though god it was expensive!

Cloudy, dark honey colored. Aroma has some maneur in it it foams in my mouth. The flavor is sweet with wheat, yeast and honey. It says on the wrapping that it was bottled 5 years ago and shouuld be consumed before 12/06.

This beer pours a tangerine color with a thin white lace that disappates quickly. The smell is of candied fruit orange citrus, peach, grassy/hay (wheat) notes. The taste starts with sweet apricot flavor then hits you with a slight alcohal essence then follows with a slight hoppy bitterness that compliments the whole beer.

Kaisla on their Christmas menu. 75cL bottle. Hazy with a hazel-white head. Smell was complex - citrus tartness, wheat, yeast, barnyard and several things I just can’t put into words. The taste - even more so... Warm, metallic, caramel, no alcohol whatsoever. A very organic tasting beer.

Had this at BJ’s Winter Ale Fest. Beer poured a murky dark golden color with an average-sized, frothy, off-white, mostly lasting head. Pretty to look at. The aroma was compelling with light malty notes of toasted grain; heavy with bright hoppy notes of lemon, herbs and pine and yeasty with funky notes of barnyard, horseblanket, cellar, moldy cheese and earth. There’s something interesting happening in the hop aromas, too. Somthing that calls to mind the living room the afternoon after a pot party or chewing on a geranium leaf. The flavor was moderately sweet and heavily bitter with a long, heavily bitter finish full of pine retros. The body was light, the texture was watery and the carbonation was lively. The palate served to accentuate the rest of this beer’s characteristics. Quite nice.