3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
33cl bottle from a bargain mixed 6-pack from Lidl. Pours amber gold with a billowing, loose, cream head; aroma of coriander and prunes, and Belgian yeast; thick and oily in the mouth, incredibly sweet and fruity, like liquified apricot jam; the alcohol provides a gentle and building warming finish, that is quite pleasant. Quite a refined sipper in my opinion.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Utobeer. Dark orange pour with a white head. Marzipan and vanilla and a little fruit aroma. Quite a sweet nose. Sweet, spicy, warming flavours. Spicy, sweet finish.
3.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
330ml bottle, cellar cool. Golden amber with a white head. Medium bitter astrigency, full bodied, sticky, with some hard-to-detect "sweet-shop" flavours. I have to agree with some other reviewers that this doesn’t need to be 10.5%, as the alcohol is the dominant flavour, but not bad in small doses.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Seemed a bit cheesy but actually has some depth and punch to it. Pours a light, clear orange with little head. Not too good at masking the alcohol, smells like halitosis and strong beer...unless the halitosis part is me, could be, might be. Bonus points for the bottle shape and ABV.
2.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle - pours a slightly cloudy amber brown with little head. Aroma is citrus, floral, brown sugar. Taste is mildly sweet with a bitter astringent finish. It is completely overpowered by the alcohol. Overall, the unnecessarily high alcohol content kills it for me. Its not adding anything. I would have scored it higher if they hadn’t gone so overboard.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Everything about it is good. It is nice and fizzy and also has a nice full body. What I didn’t like was the extremelly badly hidden high alcohol content, not very enjoyable, try a different Belgian strong Ale; there is better out there.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
33 cl bottle, Sheffield, UK via The Dram Shop. Hazy yellow-brown appearance. Thin active head. Aroma has depth, citrus initially with brown sugar and our cherry. Smooth, delicate fruit with a building long finish of alcohol, caramel and prunes.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours a lovely cloudy dark honeyed amber. Bready aroma with dried fruit, apricot, orange... Delicious, sweet, long finish with honey & fruit. Excellent.
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