4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Amazing! Easily one of my favorite beers. Just try to find a better Grand Cru. Perfect balance of sugars and alcohol burn. Smooths out magnificently over time...if it lasts that long!
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4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured into Chimay glass, dark ruby color with magnificent head and lacing all the way down the drink, aroma at first is funk, metallic, but gives way to multitude of notes of raisin prune molasses, oily mouthfeel perfect carbonation alcohol completely hidden, very nice strong dark Belgian that is rewarding if you drink slowly over an wvening
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3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark brown. Thick, almost like sirup. Loads of raisins, plums and figs. Very sweet and could be more balanced. Works well as a desert beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 2011. A dark brown beer with a medium and beige head. Aroma is intensive and fruitfull sweet, prunes, madeira, raisins; tastefull aroma. Taste is also mainly sweet, raisins, dates, syrup, alcohol is great totally disappeared, some drying herbs. Full- bodied, moderate carbonation and slippery to drink. Very sweet beer, sweetness is fruitfull and not sugary, thus still balanced and enjoyable; nice beer for a dessert or winter warming.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 ml bottle acquired trough Ipb 2011 edition. A: grappy,
licorice, vinous, brown sugars. App: its clear brown with some red highlights. small head nice lacing. T/p: full body finish is sweet and medium long. Carbonation is med-high. O: super classy a must drink Belgian.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
75cl bottle @Kaisla. 2007 vintage. Poured murky brown with sediments floating around, dense white head. Sweet fruity and yeasty aroma, dates and raisin comes to mind. Flavor is sweet, dates and raisin, with some spiciness and yeast. Alcohol completely hidden. Very drinkable despite the sweetness.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle from Systembolaget, Sweden.
Light brown lingering head. Dark brown color. Fruity aroma with spices and nougat. Sweet taste but not complex as I wish in a belgian beer.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
2010 vintage. Bottle 75 cl, bought it 2010 somewhere in Belgium. Pours clear deep ruby brown with a nice beige creamy head leaving lacing. Aroma is sweet, malty, slightly yeasty, spicy, dark fruits and brown sugar. Flavor is sweet, fullbodied, spicy, cloves, yeasty, apricots, malty and has a nice bitterness. Finishes sweet malty, spicy and a bit bitter.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
2010 bottle (Jan 2012).
Dark reddish brown, large beige head leaving lacing.
Aroma: malty, candy, cherries.
Taste: malty, honey, licorice, candy, chocolate, the alcohol is well hidden.
Full-bodied, almost sticky, maybe moussy.
Very nice stuff!
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
caramel, coffee, chocolate, herbs, basement aromas, leaves, butterscotch, cooked vegetables, skunky, smoke, rotten eggs, black, cloudy, brown foam, light sweetness, very bitter, heavily sour, umami, full body, thick feel, flat, long finish,
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