4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
[Sampled in july 2004 at the BÆNK.] Very strong alcoholic, but wonderful beer with notes of licorice, bitterness, caramel, warmneth, berries. Medium to fullbodied and a great burning aftertaste.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On draught at De Garre. Pours a dark ruby brown colour with a thick and lasting light tan head. Aroma of biscuity malt, candy sugar, caramel, chocolate and alcohol. Similar flavours with moderate carbonation and a foamy mouth-feel. Nice with fairly prominent alcohol.
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Fabulous beer. Aroma is sweet, like raisins mixed wth honey. Taste is dates with an initial burn of alcohol which mellows quickly. One of my all time favorites
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bière ambrée d’apparence légèrement trouble, ayant une mousse énorme se dissipant lentement qui réapparaît aussitôt qu’on la secoue. Au nez, des arômes de fruits murs et de cannelle se font sentir, alors que des odeurs de pain intégral et de compote de pomme s’immiscent au travers. Goût fort en alcool, mais qui laisse quand même paraître des saveurs fruitées et épicées. Cet élixir meuble bien la bouche et c’est tout à fait réconfortant. (235-150512)
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Pours amber-orange and clear with a large foamy tan-orange head that laces well. Aroma of roasted malt, some sweet fruit, and earthy yeast. Alcohol notes in the aroma right after the pour, but they disappear quickly. Taste is moderate sweet, berries, earthy yeast and alcohol, with roasted malts filling up the middle body.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark golden with top head. Nose of malts, sugar and dark fruits. Quite nice taste of chocolate, berries, coffee, toffee and malts. Creamy texture. Very enjoyable.
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Mahogany brown color with fizzy light tan colored head. Pours really beautifully. It has nice licorice note. It have incredible taste and flavours, strong but in a best way. You really dont have such a strong feeling of that 10.5 ABV what is good thing. You get that sweet wineish taste.
Great thing to drink slowely with dinner.
4.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Awesome pure Blonde strong ale...hugely complex with high ABV that is well hidden. This has a fine wine quality to it that is very appealing...
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
November 2008: I am a little annoyed with myself because this beer has been reviewed out of date, by 20 days. It has been stored in my garage (for at least two years) with about 100 other different beers awaiting its turn to be reviewed. My stash obviously isn’t it the correct order. A weekend will now be devoted to re-organising my supplies.
I am no stanger to this beer but do not own the correct glass, one of my Corsendonk Grand Cru tulip shaped glasses is the nearest I’ve got and was used in this review.
The normal white covered brown 33cl bottle was opened and straight away you know a Belgian beer is in your hand, the rich malty aromas leap out at you. Malt loaf, christmas pudding, creamed plums, all rolled into one huge explosion of the sences.
Deep ruby red in colour with a large off-white foaming head, it looks a picture and that smell just doesn’t go away.
Raisens join the party in the tasteing stakes, they add a new dimension to the flavours already mentioned in the aroma. The alcohol kicks in and the carbonisation is just perfect for taking it into your system at the right speed. Don’t even think about driving if you even smell this beer!
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
A ridiculously intense and complex beer - deep dark reddish brown color, despite being a tripel. Nose is pungent: chocolate, caramel. Thick, smooth, alcohol comes through heavy in the flavor but not in an unpleasant way. A pleasure, to be sipped slowwwwly.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Deep reddish brown, slightly cloudy, next to no head; intense perfume of stewed fruits and spice; the taste of fruity Christmas cake mutates into sweetness, spice and an unobtrusive alcoholic warmth; full mouthfeel gives a nicely subdued tingle; finish is sweet, long and complex; a lovely warming beer ideally requiring a couple of hours on a snowy December’s evening to fully appreciate.
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