3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught, tent, The Horseshoes Winter Ale Festival, Nuneaton. To be honest the very fact I’m drinking a draught 8.8% Belgian in Nuneaton I’ve never rated is giving me something of a thrill. Slim-lidded ruby with a cream foam clumping like a petra dish. Pronounced marzipan and Tunes aroma. Cherry Tunes taste, fizzed to fuck. There’s a lick of tupperware and biscuit to finish. Medicinal, elegant and very wintery. Now I know why all the old farts in Belgium drink it for elevensies.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Clear red-brown body with a large light tan head. Aroma: caramel, bread, golden syrup. Flavour: Sweet and spicey body with a fairly significant bitter chocolate, resinous finish. Medium bodied.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dark mahogany brown body, light brown head. Aroma of raisins, dark molasses, fruits. Flavour has slight alcohol, raisins, little dark fruits, some chocolate. Nice, but maybe too alcoholic.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 33cl, a clear brown beer with mow head. Nose is vinous and oude bruin like. Aroma is very sweet with smoked and dark notes, very nice caramel and dark malt notes, intense barley sugar notes, slightly smoked, cola notes, roasted notes, red fruits and dry fruit notes. A very creamy and smooth beer with roasted finish, excellent !
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
chocolate, bread, caramel, barnyard, earthy, vanilla, cough drop, butterscotch, cloudy, orange, white foam, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, full body, average carbonation, long finish,
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
330 ml bottle. Clear dark reddish brown colour, thin but creamy off-white head. Sweet aroma of dark fruits, caramel, malt and spices. The flavour is syrupy-sweet, slightly roasted, with dark fruits and spices, and a warm, hoppy finish. Very tasty.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Dark redbrown beer with dense medium seized beige head. Aroma sweet malt, spices and caramel. Taste sweet, spicy, caramel. A really nice beer, very much a christmas beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Ølbutikken, Copenhagen. Pours a dark bronze body with a medium off-white retention. Nose is dark malts, dried apples, raisins and dark candy sugars with hints of caramel and nuts. Nice. Taste is roasted malts, nuts, dark candy sugars and hints of dry hops and Belgian ale yeast. Some alcohol in the finish, with great warming effect. A smooth winter ale and a nice Belgian Christmas beer of the English variant.
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