 lithy (1600), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
May 29, 2008 Poured with swirled sediment into a Trappist goblet. A deep deep brown with a light brown/tan head. The nose is dark with dark fruits and a tinge of alcohol. Plums, curarnts, and more fill up the nose. Has a light effervescence on the tongue with a wash of tingling alcohol highlighted by overripe plums and cherry wood. As it warms the fruits replace the alcohol notes. An extremely complex beer that would give you something new every time. But at the same time it is very drinkable with a clean but lasting finish of those dark fruits. Scary considering its abv will get you feeling it before a single bottle is gone.
Mogwai (217), Askeby, Denmark
May 29, 2008 Bottle. Pours a hazy brown colour with off-white head. Aroma is dark fruit, caramel and alcohol. Flavor is very rich, almost overwhelming with alcohol. Dark fruits, malt, liquerice. Very good, but very rich.
kappldav123 (1788), Markkleeberg, Germany
May 28, 2008 The bottle looks really good, the beer in the glass also. Starts very strong, malty, not alcoholic. Very good and very drinkable beer!
wheresthepath (523), Buckinghamshire, England
May 26, 2008 Updated: Jun 23, 200923/5/2008 (9/3/8/2/14) Thanks Lee for bringing this bottle back from Belgium for me! Deep reddish brown with a slight coffee-coloured head. Slight to moderate carbonation. Smells deep, rich, vinous. Texture is silky smooth despite the carbonation. Tastes initially of plums, port and chocolate; no bitterness at all (even my wife liked this, and she doesn’t like beer at all!). However, the ridiculously over-the-top alcohol soon burns away all other flavours, and for the last two thirds of the bottle this was pretty much all I could taste. Left a sweet, syrupy mouth coating - sticky to the point of unpleasantness. The wonderful initial flavours did return some time later, but I have to say that I feel this beer could be improved if the alcohol content could be reduced several notches. As it is, it’s still pretty good, but is rather over-rated - are people giving it such high marks purely because of the high alcohol content and the fact that it’s made by monks I wonder...?
Re-rate 21/6/2009. Seems to have improved slightly with age - less sticky and less of an alcohol burn, but with an added and pronounced liquorice flavour. Maybe I’m warming to this beer after all... (9/3/8/3/15)
Pyrozoid (352), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
May 25, 2008 (Dégusté avec french tickler) Biere brumeuse ambré avec un mince collet moindrement collant (Le verre utiliser ne rend pas la tache facile) Odeur de caramel , crémeuse, sucre, Alcohol, poivré et sensation d’oranges. Gout poivré , zest d’oranges et caramel.
BeerDude78 (86), Denville, New Jersey, USA
May 23, 2008 Wow really great beer. Extremely nice pallete. Has hints of plum, raisin, nut , and sweet carmel flavors. Extremely well balanced beer. Very to close to being as perfect to Westverletren
joekinty (263), rockledge, Florida, USA
May 22, 2008 roasted malts spicey strong nice aroma alchohol was well hidden taste became better as it warmed
bp (451), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 22, 2008 Took me a long time to rate this one even though I have had it a number of times. Bottle: pours a cloudy, orangish-brown with a very thin lacing of white head, aroma is sweet along with the standard dark fruit nose, taste is malty, dry with dark fruit flavors, warming in the throat. Great beer.
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