3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours amber with a slight haze and a dense off-white head leaving some laces. Aroma is spicy and yeasty. Medium body, sweet caramel and overripe fruit. Hardly any bitterness. 080210
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A clear orange/brown colored beer, with a thick fat foamy beige head. The aroma is hoppy, then fruity like citrus with some spices. The taste is bitter with some sweet. There are spices and it gives a warm feeling. The aftertaste is bittersweet.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Taste first @ KBF 2007. This year again @ home from 75 cl. (Bierloods)
Hazy amber color with a beige to orange head.
Aroma fruits, malts, sweet bit spice.
Medium body.
Taste again fruits, sweet, malts, bit spices.
Some spice, and dry ending.
Nothing special.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Corked bottle. Reddish amber color. Plums and citrus in the aroma. malty, slightly alcoholic sweetish flavor with pineapple, plums and mango. Just a hint of nutmeg. Pleasant fruity ale with just a hint of flowers.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
In short: A rather bland Belgian amber ale with a light spicy touch. Not offensive, not interesting
How: Bottle 330ml, about 1 year old but still before best-before date
The look: Almost clear dark golden body topped by a medium beige head with medium retention
In long: Nose of bakery with a light spicy touch. Taste is surprisingly bland, less tasty than expected. Grainy malts, bread crust, brown sugar, sweetened dried fruits. Winter beers spices (ginger, cloves, cinnamon, others) that fortunately in small quantities. A bland but not offensive seasonal winter beer. Nothing to improve my winter mood, this time of year when like all Montrealers I’d like to tie-up Al Gore and make him eat his slide-show.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
75cl, from De Bierloods Adegem, complex brew, not balanced, hazy, good head, nice Winter brew
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at Kerstbierfestival Essen: More orange than amber looks, with an cinnamon smell and very spicy taste.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
<i>Bottle (330ml) shared with HogTownHarry and biegaman -- courtesy of HogTownHarry.</i> Pours a murky orange-amber with tons of sediment and no head. Mild malty aroma with fruit and spices. Watery and dull sweet malty flavour. Light to average bodied. Very ’meh’.
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