Gouden Carolus Ambrio

Brewed by Brouwerij Het Anker
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Mechelen, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Cask at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Strange to find this on draught. Copper colour with lasting off white head. Hoppy/yeast aroma with sweetish caramel and hop in mouth. Alcohol kick on end. Smoother than in a bottle
Earlier Rating: 9/10/2005 Total Score: 2.1
Bottle. Reddish brown beer with thin beige head. Port wine nose, good deep fruits but a tad too sweet. Good hop finish but this doesn’t have the necessary balance of flavours

UPDATED: JUL 17, 2006 Nov, 2005JDW, Rochester. Dangerously drinkable. A cuddly warmth with a little squeeze of spicy orange from the generous pale malt. A Christmas cake perfume rises through the palate enticing suggestions of burnt almonds, marzipan, corriander and Proust’s madeline cake. Idle moments of flavour speculations flattering to the beer geek’s ego, but essentially the flavour notes are as expected from a strong pale ale and are in a fairly limited range. It’s a smooth, gentle barley wine - but lacks genuine character. [3.0]
June, 2006 <a href=http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/95/959 Herne Bay Sweet and fruity with a rotting banana note. Full ripe. Lots of alcohol notes, including plastic. Tastes like a full bodied strong lager. OK. Nice and strong. The pub rules forbade the barman from serving me a pint glass, so I had to have two halves. [3.0]

UPDATED: APR 27, 2007 Mid amber with a medium off-white head. Sweet and fruity malt aroma with a good burst of alcohol. I found the taste less impressive. It lacked bite and impact. Easy drinking, but not up to the standard of other Gouden Carolus offerings. 27.4.07 Cask at Wetherspoon’s, Milton Keynes, and an utterly different experience. Pale amber with a creamy white head. Sweet aroma. Oily mouthfeel with all sorts of odd nuances: pear drops, cough sweets, toothpaste, cinnamon, mince pies. Couldn’t decide if I loved it or hated it. OK, I hated it. 4,4,3,3,9:2.3

Cask conditioned @ Giddy Bridge (JDW), Soton, 8% abv. Masses of toffeish plummy malt, banana and a touch of liqouricey alcohol. Fairly drinkable for an 8% but lacks depth.

An amber beer with a huge slightly pink head. The aroma is spicy and hoppy - I pick up coriander, figs, and oranges. The flavor is sweet woody with a herbal note mixing in with som fruit, where I pick out oranges. The mouthfeel is very smooth, and the end woody dry.

Nice oak brown color, medium head. Great alcohol, chcolate, figs, raisons and molasses nose - huge! Veggie, caramel taste - oily texture - very disappointing after teh promising nose and appearance.

(bottle) Cloudy dark orange/amber colour with a frothy off-white medium head. Fruity (grapefruit, lemon peel) aroma with milk chocolate and a dense spicy note. Bitter flavour, medium body, fizzy carbonation. Initial malty and fruity with a bitterfruity note, that lingers into the end. A good one.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Amber Red. Aroma of grapefruit hop, cherry, toasty malt. Fruity in the mouth with a good fruity hop finish. Pleasant stuff.

Red brown colour. Floral and fruit aromas. Very sweet fruity taste. A bit more sweet than I like. Not bad at all though

15 Jun 2005 - (Schruers terrace, Margraten) - Light floral, fruity malt aroma. Cloudy red-brown, good beige head and reasonable lacing. Big malty hop fruit spirit flavour. Tangy lingering hop malt finish.