Gouden Carolus Easter Beer (-2006)

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij Het Anker
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Mechelen, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle. [Courtesy of Ungstrup, thanks buddy] Vintage 2004. Average light creamy beige head that mostly diminished. Good display of lacework. Cloudy mahogany colour. Aroma of lovely fruit, alcohol, toasted malt, mild oxidation, mild spice, vinous, liquorish. Full bodied with a soft carbonation and somewhat thick and alcoholic texture. Moderated to heavy sweet flavour with a hint of bitter alcohol and acidic. Overripe fruity lingering alcoholic warming finish. Very nice.

Shared a bottle of the 2005 with friends at Kulminator. Appearance is dark brown with a small pale head that leaves behind some nice lacing. Aroma is raisins, brown sugar, plums, touch of liquorice. Sweet and sticky on the palate,  low on the carbonation. Taste is raisins, candi sugar, caramel, dates, hint of licorice in the aftertaste. Another excellent bier in the Gouden Carolus selection.

bread, toast, leather, rotten eggs, cooked vegetables, clove, vanilla, floral, golden, cloudy, tan foam, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, salty, full body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish,

Bottle @ Home. BBD = 310107. Pours clear dark embony brown with a creamy offwhite head, fine lacings on the glass. Aroma of licorice, raisins and other dark fruit, bit of sweet bread, caramel, port. Taste is sweet licorice, bready malts, chocolate and som spices, cinnamon / cloves. Medium body, soft carbonation. Overall aged very well, and ill buy again given the chance. 060111

Bottle at home, shared with a friend. Pours out dark amber-brown. Chocolate, red fruits smell. Beige-lightly brown, medium sized head. Could hold some longer. Sweet smell. Lightly oily body. Sweet caramel red fruits. Mint, spiced, "drop". Drinkeable for sure, my friend enjoyed it, I liked it.

Bottle courtesy of tarheels86, thank you sir. Dark brown color, small head, little lacing. Aroma of in foil, and the candied coating used on chocolate easter eggs. Taste is chocolate candy and Worcestershire sauce, with a metallic edge. If you have a bottle of this, I would lay it down for a couple of years, in the hope that it might improve!

Bottle. Clear amber colour with medium creamy off-white mostly lasting head. Hoppy aroma with notes of licorice and perfume. Sweet bitter flavor. Creamy palate.

75cl bottle. Pours a nice dark ruby red colour, with a tan head, with tons of yeast floaties. The aroma is of dark fruites like dates, prunes and raisins, caramel, spices like clove and anis and some yeast. Flavour is of dark fruits, again the dates, prunes and raisins, spices like in the aroma, clove and anis, caramel, candied sugar, some yeast, slight amount of alcohol and slight amount of chocolate in the finish. Carbonation is mild and the body is medium, and maybe slightly watery. Overall a really good dark belgian strong ale/ easter beer!

750 ml bottle found one in a Belgium beer store a dark brown colored beer with a white head aroma dry fruits spices yeast and some liqueur hints taste dry fruit caramel spices some bitterness and alcohol

Aha. So I found a dark version of this- but it was way past it’s prime unfortunately. Poured a deep muddy amber with no lace.Aroma of fruit cake and red licorice. Taste of red licorice and just overall was really sickeningly sweet. Metallic notes and rotten egg notes come into play later on. Sort of gross. :(

Moderate hoppy and liquorice aroma. Huge,frothy, off-white head. Good lacing. Clear, amber body. Heavy sweet flavor. Medium to full palate.