La Caracole Nostradamus

Brewed by La Caracole
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Falmignoul, Belgium

Dark brown color with minimal head. Spicy malt nose with a yeasty bite. Sweet body with similar flavor to the nose but with some dark fruit flavor.

Bottle 33 cl @ festival Hotton, yeasterday. Dark reddish brown with off white head. Aroma fruits, yeast, cholcolate malts. Medium body. Taste caramel, malts, dark fruits, sweet and alcoholic. This is not my favorite of this brewery.

11.2oz bottle. Served in a St Bernardus goblet. Hazy clear brown ale with a small beige head that quickly drops to a skim and a ring, but laces the glass a little. Pleasant aroma of sweet dark malt and prunes and plums. Slightly boozy aroma also. Flavor is full and rich with dark fruits (dates), heavy sweet malts, and the alcohol is not timid but mixes well. Very complex brew with serious hops and notable bitterness. Body is medium full. Caramel and spice in the finish. A delicious and thoroughly enjoyable Belgian strong brown ale.

11.2 oz bottle, thanks to fonefan for this extra. pours reddish brown with off white head. nose has brown sugar, nuts, and lots of dark fruits, plums, with some tar and alc heat. flavor has soft delicate dark fruits, tobacco, brown sugar, caramel, and nuts. mouth feel is full. alc is well hidden. carbonation is med. although this doesn’t really do anything unique, the flavors are robust, dark fruity, and alcohol warms. tasty beer, more like an abt in the vein of st. b 12.

Cloudy chestnut color with a 1 cm thick white head. Sweet yeast and malt mix, mild spice, and weakly sour smell. Medium-bodied, well-carbonated. At first, there’s a bit of a tartness to the taste that mellows out with time. Caramel tones and some yeastiness throughout. Enjoyable, and more tastes and flavors came out as it warmed.

Bottle conditioned, 750ml. Red brown with white head. Big fruity beer, sweet, toffee like, aromatic, smooth. Warming and very present alcohol notes throughout with a bready, yeasty finish. many thanks to Andy & Pat for this and sharing it.

Aroma of spicy dark fruits. Dark reddish copper color with a beige head that rapidly flattened. A bit thin, but the significant, non-biting, carbonation creams and thickens as it leaves. For flavor there is dark fruit - plum, raisin, berry. Something of caramel. Followed by a touch of n-amyl acetate. I could accept that there is some diacetyl. It’s just so wonderful in the mouth. A very smooth brown, which still manages to carry along a hint of dirt and grunge. Not a bad thing, it provides that authentic grittiness. The palate is near staggering. The finish is primarily dry, but the sweet fruitiness helps the ale avoid astringency. Quite marvelous.

Not what I was expecting. The prunish taste was not necessarily to my liking, although I have enjoyed similar beers. Don’t really know why, but unimpressive.