Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van De Keizer Blauw/Blue

First rating
(75 cl bottle)
Labeled 8.5%.
Wine and sugar, alcohol and raissin, laid down, fresch scent. Copper red color with a tan head. Alcohol, dried fruits, raissin, almonds, sweet taste. Thin mouthfeel and high co2.
5/3/5/2/9=2.4

Rerate
(75 cl bottle from Systembolaget, thanks to deft!)
BB 31/12/2018
2008 vintage
This time labelled 11%
On October 10, 2008
Clear beautiful dark reddish copper color, big lasting tan head. Sweet, slight roasted, lactic, alcohol, spicy scent. Also some milk chocolate. Sweet, lactic, salty, phenolic, licorice, fruity, hard to describe taste. Lots of everything. Warming alcohol feeling, though well hidden alcohol in taste. Aftertaste rather short, a bit sweet. Medium to smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness. Turns shady towards the end of the bottle.
7/5/7/4/14=3.7

The 11% I tried now (Side by side with the red version) was much better than the 8.5% version tried earlier)

Pours hazy red/brown with grey/green lines. Vineous, dried fruit aroma with alcohol. Wet soil and cellar. Apricots and raisins, allmond and fudge. Ripe cherries. Stale sweet flavour, ripe bananas, with dried dark fruits and raisin. Allmond paste. Small chocolate hints.

2005 bottle. Deep amber. banana, raisins, dates,roasted hops, brown sugar. Very chewy--like a tricked out sugar daddy. Unique and yummy.

Sweet fruit, cherrys, dates, bananas in the nose. Banana bread and some kind of raisiny taste. Ever so slightly tart. Feels thick on the tongue. Lovely finish. Lots of esters and warm alcohol. Wow....great beer.

bottled 2005 with VOL 11%. Color is very dark brown. The pour is leaving a nice thick head tht lst long with a nice taste The beer have a very complex taste but the dominant tastes are raisins, and plum. Very sweet tasting beer that i would like to have by it self and not along with 10 other beers in a tasting session

Semi-translucent and honey chestnut in color with a thick, oily film on top. Fried bananas with cocoa nibs capture the nose, shortly followed thereafter by cinnamon, nutmeg, golden figs, banana butter and crusty, brown sugared crème brulee. Full-flavored cocoa-covered banana chips ring favorably with melting ginger and peppered maple nougats. Warming, toasted pumpernickel is enhanced with beaucoup spicing. Glossy and oily mouth feel with a dry, earthen ash complex to mix the spicing up a bit. Chewy cocoa bread, ginger, nutmeg and melting bananas hug the back of the tongue. Gummy sweetness and a dry, hot recess become more prominent the further we go. Pepper jives with plum butter and prunes take a bath in hot caramel for the finish.

This tasting second big surprise. Bottled 2005 (11%), color was very mahogany and dark. Head was impressive creamy like and long lasting. Complexity is amazing, but predominant notes are raisin, date’s, fig with some licorice and maybe even coffee and Tobago notes. Flavor is full sweet with light bitter notes. Finish is surprisingly short, but still this was for me a great encounter. Love to re-taste this beer. Would like to try and cellar this beer for some years to see the difference and how it would evolve into something even grater if that is possible..... :-)

Vintage 05 Dark mahogany pour small tan head nice lacing. Aroma has a belgian yeast lightly spiced w/ black pepper & corriandersome raisen & plum sweet carmels & light alcohol. Palate is well coated and lightly creamy. Flavor is very sweet carmels and lots and lots of plums a light alcohol in the finish. Very good stuff.