 Sick_boy282 (1074), San Diego, California, USA
Jun 16, 2007 Updated: Nov 24, 2007
Opened the bottle with little pop from the cork,. Poured with a a few specks of bubbles. Aromas of raisins, prunes, and little cocoa. Carbonation isn’t gone completely, with a medium bodied mouth feel. Flavors of funk, caramel, toffee. With the lack of carbonation it tastes more like a barley wine as the belgianesque qualities seemed to have faded. I will definitely re-rate.
thickfreakness (53), Austin, Texas, USA
Aug 18, 2008 Bottle received in trade from last years batch. Pours a ruby brown color with a small head and spotty lacing. Smell is chocolate, raisin, rosemary, the slightest funk, alcohol and dark fruit. Taste is similar with lots of yeasty chocolate flavor, rosemary, raisins, and hardly any barnyard or funk flavors. The alcohol was actually really well hidden in the taste. A very interesting beer that I can only really describe as savory. I wish I has cooked something up with rosemary prior to cracking this one open.
Praetorian (42), Los Angeles, California, USA
Aug 17, 2008 Dark brown in color with an average sized, light brown head with minimal-no lacing. The aroma is of yeast and rasins with a hint of chocolate. The flavor is of dark fruits and brandy with notes of coffee grounds and chocolate. Starts somewhat sweet and finishes bitter. The texture is syrupy. The second half of the bottle was much yeastier than the first; watch out for the dregs. Overall i’d say its a very enjoyable, well balanced beer with a very complex and aggressive flavor. Good, but not quite my style.
Crosling (1628), Loveland, Colorado, USA
Aug 5, 2008 Wow, haven’t rated this beauty. Pour is a very dark brown with a perfectly forming head of a very light tan. The head is airy, frothy, well developed and very pure and authentic...very Belgian. Perfect appearance because it looks Belgian. Nose is very expressive and lively and mainly shows the spicing (ginger, pumpkin, allspice), but it also hints of raisins, dark fruits, wildness and Belgian yeast. Flavor is very well balanced with all the elements working well together. Spicing is still the dominant factor, but the flavor still gives hints of raisins, dark fruits, herbs and yeast. Like it quite a bit, but it has aged slow.
BMan1113VR (763), Los Angeles (and Dallas, TX), California, USA
Jul 30, 2008 Pours with a small, off-white head covering an extremely dark brown body. Aroma of raisins, mint (menthol), molases, alcohol, and pitted fruit. Taste is very yeasty and malty with alcohol and raisins. Mouthfeel is syrupy with light bubbles.
Zinister (855), Houston, Texas, USA
Jul 26, 2008 Thanks to Bockyhorsey for this bottle. Darkening brown with small tan head. Caramel, raisins, dark fruits and syrup on the nose. Layered flavors of the same, with some fruitness and that nice Brett character mixed in as well. Very enjoyable beer than got better as it warmed in the Houston night. Thanks Bill, great beer.
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