Diamond Kerstbok 6.5%

Diamond Beer
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Helsinki, Finland

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy dark amber colour with a medium good lasting beige head leaving fair lazing. The aroma is spiced (mainly cinnamon), with liquorice, roasted malt and some dark fruits. Good mouthfeel. The flavour is spiced and bitter-sweet with liquorice, roasted malt, caramel and hops. Well lasting spiced mildly roasty finish.

Hazy amber with a lasting off-white head. Malty aroma with fruity and herbal notes. Sweet and herbal flavour, I sensed some rosemary.

rbesg08 grand tasting, bottled. murky pale brown with a steady off-white head, fruitcake aroma, some warming alcohol and a lightly tinny finish. not bad

bottle 330ml from Alko EXP 21/10/10 reddish brown huge head lacing bit sour malts cinnamon dash of orange peel bit of rusty. Anyway better than watered 4,5% version. Sadly only bottle this year so can’t taste it again a year ahead.

(Draught at Olutkellari Helsinki on 2008-12-03) Dark reddish brown and clear. Medium sized quickly disappearing white head. Malts and metallic aromas in nose. Full bodied palate and dryish with medium carbonation. Strong malty flavour that contains also vegetables, spices, cough mixture, bitterness and little bit of roastedness. Bitter and spicy aftertaste.

Cellared for a year. Dark reddish brown, lovely firm beige head. Nicely spicy and yeasty nose, christmas, some orange zest, strawberry, wheat and candy sugar. Sweet sugary flavor, balanced spices, liquorice and little hops, wheat and yeast in the herbal finish. Slightly ashy and strongly herbal with yeast poured in. Very round soft palate. A lovely, balanced christmas brew. The year has done good.

Bottled. A hazy deep red beer with a tan head. The aroma is acidic malty combined with notes of caramel and lighter notes of spices - especially ginger. The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of dust and malt, as well as a metallic note that stings the tongue. The finish is dry.

Very spicy, feels like your insides have been laced with cinnamon after you drink this down. In fact I can’t even recall much more about this beer than cinnamon cinnamon and cinnamon. Would recommend this to cinnamon heads if there are any, especially to cinnamon girls...

(6/29/08) Bottle sample at RBESG08 grand tasting in Plzen. I hope this is really the version I tried. Cloudy brown with an off-white head. Sweet flavor of malt, some caramel and notes of alcohol. Medium-bodied.

Bottle at the RBESG08 Grand tasting. Alround rating: A spicey fried sausage of a beer.

Bottle @ the RBESG08 Grand Tasting.
[thank you, Tbone]
Pours muddy brown with a big, creamy, off-white/beige head. Aroma is sweet , good toffee and sweet coriander notes. Fine, light mouthfeel. Flavour is good toffee and nice spiciness. Quite nice.