La Botteresse Miel

Formerly brewed at Brasserie Artisanale des Bruyeres
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Jupille-sur-Meuse, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Re-tasted. 19.07.09 Bought last winter @ Hopduvel. Almost clear dark amber-to light brown color with some white head. Aroma fruits, sweet honey. Medium body. Taste herby-spice, caramel, sweet honey, and some bitter finish.

Bottle from Bierkoning. Murky dark brown body with quick-receding tan head. Spicy, soapy and somewhat sweet nose. Taste is of honey, malts. Some ginger and more honey in the finish.

amber coloured sparkling body with yeast particels and a white head a spicy honey little fruity aroma a herby spicy little fruity taste with a spicy bitter finish

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a nice off-white head and a hazy orange body. Aroma of flowers and honey, lightly peppers and banana esters and chamomile. Taste is chamomile, bananas and honey. Lightly fizzy, like drinking a tea when you are sick, interesting. Well hidden alcohol at 8.5%

bottle thanks to bu11zeye. deep amber pour with a small amount of froth. scents of honey and chamomile. flavors of honey and spices. smooth finish with an aftertaste of banana

Nice brown pour medium head and carbonation aromas grape grain fruit and spice the flavours grape hoppy fruit lemon orange wheat malt coriander white wine like chardonnay the finish mainly wine finish but there is fruit and spice a bitter touch okay ale but not top stuff

Clear ambersih coloured eer with small white head and lots of carbonation some floks of yeast. Herby (cinnamon) spiced aroma. Fresh special first palate sparkling. Finish is spicy and herby.

(33cl bottle) Pours a lightly hazy amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of chamomile, honey, florals, light vinegar, and yeast. Flavor of chamomile, honey, light ginger, and banana.

Bottle, bought @ Bierkoning, Amsterdam.
Murky amber with a smallish, fizzy, off-white head. Very fizzy head, really. Aroma has lots of sweetness, heather honey, flowers, caramel, light viniousness, some toasted notes, light plums. High, prickly carbonation, fine, lightly oily mouthfeel. Flavour has sweet honey, toasted caramel, figs, plums, vinious. Very flowery feel to it. Fine, even if it is quite high in carbonation.

Bottle 33cl.
Clear medium amber color with a average, fizzy, good - fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate yeasty, spicy, moderate to light heavy honey, herb tea, health candy. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20081018]