Sterkens Smokkelaar

Brewed by Brasserie Du Bocq
Style: Belgian Ale
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle @ home. [As St. Denise La Réserve de L’Abbesse] Clear orange color, lots of medium sized yeast particles floating around, small to medium sized mostly diminishing white to off-white head. Smell a lot of malts, yeast, dust and wort. Taste lightly sweet, dust, lightly musty and wort. Low to medium body, little bit fizzy carbo.

Bought in Italy, labeled St. Denise Grand Cru Bierra Doppio Malto. The bottle loks the same and the abv fits. Sleightly hazy light golden with a frothing white head. Fruity aroma, coriander seeds, toothpaste, spearmint, and mild raw malt. Sweet and alchoholic flavor, pirckling palate. Ok beer

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Bottle, courtesy of Dedollewaitor. As St. Denise Reserve de lAbbesse. A clear, golden beer with a nice, dense, off-white head. Spiced nose with some banana and lemon hints. Some malts too. The flavor is fruity and spiced, some bitterness blending in. A little bitterness and spicyness in the end, which is mostly fruity. Quite decent, but overall a bit too sugary. 100814

Hazy golden with a small white head. Sweet malty aroma with some fruit. Fruit and spice flavour with grainy malt.

Bottle 330ml. @ The Danish Summer Gathering, TTODRBSG10 - Ulfborg.

[ As St. Denise Reserve de lAbbesse ].
Clear medium yellow color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, malty, light to moderate hoppy, flowers, dusty, moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100814]

Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, 2010. Pours cloudy golden with a off white head. Nose is grain, yeast and alcohol. >Fruity and yeasty flavor. Medium palate.

clear yellow, smooth white head. smoky aroma, yellow fruity, dry. flavor is bitter, yellow fruity, faint honey or flowers, faint licorice like bitterness in the aftertaste.