3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
33cl bottle, split with dwm1034. Thanks! Pours a deep, reddish-brown color with a white head. Aroma is yeasty, bready, clove. Medium on the palate with soft carbonation. Flavor is sweet, dark fruit, raisin, plum, mulling spices, with a light yeasty finish.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle split with sherm1015....holiday present from kids. Pours a candy red with quickly dissipating head. Nose is sweet; bananas and cloves; sour edge.....tasty but not an every night thing for me...
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Brown pour with minimal head. Taste of raisins, bananas and very sweet. A nice Christmas beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Candy apple red with hardly any head at all. Aroma is sugary with hints of banana. Mouth feel burns a bit due to the high alcohol content. Taste is very sweet. Lots of sugar and candy. Clove and spice finish. Pretty complex.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Diagonal tasting? Vertical between BB 13 and 14 bottles and horizontal with Brouwerij Huyghe Tesco Finest Belgian Abbey Beer. First bottle, BB November 13, pours a ruby colour with no head. Aroma of black pepper, cherries, wood, cloves and toffee apples. Big upfront cherry flavour with cloves to finish. Quite bitter with an oily mouth-feel. A little cloying. Second bottle, BB November 14, pours a slightly brighter ruby colour with no head. Aroma of sherry, cherry, yeast, alcohol and vanilla. Flavour of cherry and marzipan almond. Mild carbonation with light CO2 prickle and also a little cloying.
3.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
330ml bottle bb 11/2014 into leffe goblet . a nice frothy white head that lingers clear deep amber coppery colour fruity hoppy aroma . fully carbonated mouthfeel sweet rich feel but not unduly heavy - not a complex range of flavours but nice - long almost juicy aftertaste with the 10% alcohol seeping in at the end but not a burn . A pleasant Christmas ale to enjoy
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle picked my kids. Something about elephants on the label i suspect. Pours a dark copper with smallish tan coloured head. Some lacing as it drops away. Flavours of caramel, dark fruits, christmas spices and yeast. Flavours a little more straight forward. Super sweet with lots of dark caramel. Alcohol on the finish and a little sourness.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
dark ruby red into a snifter glass. thin dissipating head. aroma was mildly astringent with dark fruits like raisins and dates with some ginger in the background. flavor was similar but brighter than i expected, with a toffee vanilla like finish. the alcohol even at 10% sneaks up on you as the finish is actually quite light. like most delirium beers, nice but a "one a night" type thing.
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