Judas

Brewed by Alken-Maes (Heineken)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Jumet, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

(Bottle, Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm) Golden colour with frothy, off-white head. Sparkling carbonation. Fruity, malty nose with yeast, peaches and a slightly metallic malt profile. Malty, fruity taste with notes of dried pineapple, marmalade candy and a mild spicy bitterness. More than medium body, with lots of candy sweetness. A bit unsophisticated, but decent and quite drinkable.

UPDATED: JAN 27, 2012 Bottle from Berts Bierhuis in Utrecht, Holland - Golden colour with a white head. Sweet and sour aroma. Sweet flavour with some sour yeast notes. And a bit alcohol

33 cL bottle into a the proper Judas glass at Domus in Leuven. Murky blond with a huge head. Strong, slightly acrid, spiced aroma. Bitter, with a hint of sourness, a bit sharp and estery. I quite like it despite it being a bit like a special brew.

I promise, no Dylan references. Bottle. Nose is sweet, sweet malt with orange peel and light vanilla, a really fruity yeast here. Clear yellow-golden with a large and rocky beige head. Taste is sweet with a large hot alcohol component, heavy sticky fruit and some burn. Loaded with honey, peach, berry, orange. Like the sugar component here, and the brazen alcohol works well. Low bitterness and a nice swash of yeast (also giving a touch of spice). Sticky medium body. Probably better suited to the end of the night of drinking, or as the single solitary sipper, but I can’t say I disliked it.

Drank from a 500ml can bought in Brussel Central. Very sweet, with honey and alcohol. Not much hop character or complexity. Basically it’s a cheap-ass version of Duvel. Made for getting drunk quickly. Drinkable, but really not good.

Bottle. Golden, hazy, small and mostly diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, fruitiness and yeast, faint spiciness and caramel. Body is medium, malty – lightly wheaty and sweetish flavor, caramel and some fruitiness, light spiciness. Finish is average, malty – lightly wheaty and sweetish, caramel and fruitiness, faint spiciness and alcohol. Caramel sweetish strong ale – nothing special here.

Olive bottle, 33 cl, best before 23-10-08, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on August 28 2011; eye: peach, clear, no effervescence, tiny sheet of off-white head, light lacing; nose: Madeira, malt, yeast, light fruity, honey; mouth: Madeira, malt, slight yeast, caramel, honey, finale in Madeira, medium body, below-average carbonation, mildly sweet, sticky texture; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille olive, 33 cl, meilleure avant 23-10-08, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 28 août 2011; œil : pêche, limpide, pas d’effervescence, petite couverture de mousse blanc cassé, légère dentelle; nez : madère, malt, levure, léger fruité, miel; bouche : madère, malt, très léger levure, léger fruité, caramel, miel, finale en madère, corps moyen, carbonatation sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture collante; en résumé : ordinaire

transparent reddish borwn beer with light central carbonation. Weak head, overripe cherries, strawberries, caramel peachy ripe alcoholic smell. Caramelised apple taste, alcoholic but well in balance with the sweetness and fruitiness. Brown sugar in there, mayb esugar cane. Great beer! Interesting, surprising, there were some tastes there I couldn’t place...a surprising combination of flavours.