Gouden Carolus Noël (Christmas)

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

Body has a brown haziness about it, very minimal cap was produced during pour and after only a few seconds just a small ring remains around edge of glass. Lots of bubs are floating to the top of the brew that looks really think, all these bubbles are causing a churning effect on the surface of the beer and is pushing around small islands of foam in all directions. Very standard aroma for the style, sweet, touch of alcohol, spices, cherries, slight wood, and there is a aroma hiding in the back ground that reminds me of cigarette ash. Wow this stuff feels thick and the first sip warms the stomach. Taste is also very standard for the style but does stick out more in my mind than some. Sweet cherries just a touch of alcohol blends nicely with cinnamon and nutmeg, dark malts dominate this flavor and I’m even detecting apples. Tasty brew, this would be a great sipper on a cold winter evening and not the summer heat wave I drank it in. I liked it but there are better in the style I would most diffentatly drink again but I wouldn’t go out of my way for it ."

Thanks to whomever gave me this. Tons of spices in the aroma and flavor, nutmeg, cinnamon, spruce and everything else.

Bottle: deep ruby-amber coloured, firm bigger beige head; liquorice, cinnamon, roasted malt and mulled wine in the sweet nose; medium to full bodied, robust sweet-bitter flavour; lingering sweet-bitter, cough-syrup like finish. A liquid X-mas cake, very nourishing.........

Dark brown in color with a thick foamy tan head. Head is creamy looking and lasts forver.Smell is full of dark malts, orance peel, spices, and vanilla.The taste has the sxpected spice flavors with a little hint of pepper. The alcohol mixes nicely with carmel malt and toffee. A little bitter on the finish.

Dark reddish brown with thin tan head. Sweet soapy floral perfume raisin banana black licorice aroma. Soapy perfume floral banana black licorice taste. Not my cup of tea or beer. I hate black licorice. Give me the classic.

750 bottle that’s a few years old. Reddish brown body with a one finger head that quickly fades. Nose has varying aromas of banana, caramel, dark fruit, and spice. Flavor is sweet with orange, honey, raisins. There’s a touch of bitterness in there floating around. Full and smooth with low carbonation. While a little too sweet overall, it’s tasty and packs a nice winter warmer punch.

Bottle. Amber pour, light head. Fruity, yeasty, honey and a bit nutty. Flavor is much the same...spicy, full and sweet. Very light hops on the finish. Not too bad.

Candy apple red hue. Billows of auxerrois grapes, lime, and fruit cake with rum sauce...all this just in the nose! Hits the mouth with more auxerrois and the addition of cotton candy. Middle palate kicks in the 10.5% bounty...with oak and sherry (has this been casked?). Goes down showing signs of dry nut. Finish is surprisingly short, with faint traces of maltose and malted barley. Lot’s of different personalities here. They aren’t enemies, but certainly don’t get along like best friends. We’ll call it a marriage of aquaitences!