St. Bernardus Abt 12

Bottle. Very pleasant aroma from afar, prickles the nose up close, very rich, toffee, blackberry, dough, minor alcohol. Massive fizzing head, darker cream color, minor lacing, very opaque and cloudy, dark rust-brown in color. This is a large but smooth malt dominated beverage, almost sugary sweet candy at the start, flavor becomes very rich and heavy on the sweetness spectrum (probably too rich for my personal liking) soon after, some mixed spices and light alcohol in the finish, I do enjoy the aftertaste though. Not as memorable as I was expecting, maybe too heavy on the rich fruit, though it is definitely a well crafted drink.

33cl bottle from Systembolaget. It poured a dark brown, almost black colour with a medium big beige head that settles down fast in the glass. The aroma is fruity and smells of raisins, roasted malts and sweet caramel. The flavour is bitter-sweet and tastes of fruits, raisins, banana, malts and alcohol. It has a long aftertaste.

Fruity/plum like aroma that is fairly weak. This is fairly acidic with some malts and is almost wine like in its palate. Not much bitterness, just sugary sweet like a good wine. This is in a class by itself as most beers don’t have such a strong fruit presence. This one grows on you though, and is of very high quality. The only negatives about this beer is the somewhat weak aroma and the overbearing fruitiness.

Belgium comes through again! Without question I enjoy the deep brown color and off white head but the aroma , and taste of roasty malt, caramel, and deep fruit tones are marvelous. I like the alcoholic tone because it is in balance with the smooth sweet tones in this quad.

[1562-20080802] 330mL bottle. Fresh raisin malt and boozy fruit aroma. Murky, dark brown red body with a long-lasting foamy light tan head and lots of dark floaties. Hard fruity booze flavour has a bit of raisin malt. Medium-full body. Fresh.
(c/o HogTownHarry, w/ jerc)

This beer had a very sweet aroma, poured dark brown. It had a very large white head. I liked the taste at first, but the after taste was far to bitter for my taste.

nice aroma, dark brown with some black debris in it, flavor is suiper balanced sweet built by lots of components.

Dark Golden Brown pour, Yeasty, spicy, malty aromas. Mouthfeel is like but hearty with a complex mix of spice and yeast with some subtle fig and and maybe raisin or grape. Warming alcohol finish is touched with banana. Excellent