Leffe Radieuse

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Leuven, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Dark brown head, big yellow head. Spices, fruits and mild chocolate and alcohol in aroma, good basic aroma. Medium to full bodied. Pretty alcoholic flavor with spices and chocolate, aftertaste is dry with alcohol flavor. Expected more out of this.

UPDATED: JAN 21, 2005 Red, brown color. Sweet, fruity, malty aroma and taste. medium body, nice finish.

Bottle. Clear red coloured with a huge off white head. Aroma of fruits and spices with notes of citrus. Sweet flavour of citrus and spices with notes of fruits and yeast.

Bottle, at GB. Brown with light brown head, large, almost disappearing. Aroma of burnt malt and fruity bitterness of hops. Flavor moderate bitter, well balanced. Medium to full body, creamy, normal corbonation.

Bottle. Brownish-yellow colour with a short lasting bubbling off-white head. Sweet fruity-sour aroma. Sweet and fruity flavour with some bitterness to it. Good mouthfeel! Good warming and fruity brew.

Bottle picked up at Sainsburys, Kidlington 14-10-06. This completed the end of my Leffe taste test with Loz’s parents, despite having had these beers hundreds of times before it was about time I rated them, only realised I hadn’t rated them when I went and rated the Leffe 9, so went out and bought the lot apart from the Tripel. After the Tripel this is my second favourite Leffe beer. Poured a reddy/brown colour, little bit of toffee on the nose, smooth and quite full flavoured beer, little bit spicey, also some toffee swilling around again, good tasty beer, still it’s not without its faults as there is a slight alcohol burn there.

(Bottle, Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm, 15 Dec 2010) Reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, slightly fruity taste with dark bread, caramel, dried fruit, red berries and hints of spices. Malty, fruity taste with notes of dark bread, brown sugar, caramel, raisins, prunes, blood orange and a slightly spicy finish with some sugary sweetness. More than medium body. A decent brew from InBev, but hardly daring and with some unmistakable mass production character.

Bottle. London. Pours brown-red with white generous head that disipates quickly. No great tastes of either hops or caramel, but a strong alcohol body that you can feel on your breath as if it had its own presence.