St. Bernardus Abt 12

Brewed by St. Bernard Brouwerij
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Watou, Belgium

Bottle & tap on several occasions @ Café Gollem. Dark brown, beige head. Aroma of dark fruits, mouldy yeast (typical of St.Bernardus beers), chocolate. Taste is very sweet, almost cloying, but perfectly balanced by the dark fruits, roasted malts and dark chocolate flavours. Thick and creamy mouthfeel. Very good when bottled, superb from tap.

[Archive] Sweet syrupy aroma but not that much. Alcohol, chocolate, lots of carbonation and it’s quite heavy.

Pours dark brown with redish hue. Rather large foamy tan head that doesn’t last real long. Aroma of bread and alcohol. Great palate. Light carbanation. Hints of spice and caramel. Light alcohol burn to the finish. Alchohol is hidden very well in this one. Great beer.

Pours a dark brown, with a foamy cream head. Looks almost like coca-cola. Smells very malty. Nice. Flavor is....incredible. Lots of malty, nice hop bitterness too. Balance. Good and fruity too. Plum, figs, maybe some citrus. Smooth. Delicious.

Crushed with Dadbra. One hell of a bouquet. Looks great, complex and sexy as hell. Definitely a top brew.

Poured a cloudy brownm color with decent sized head. I could detect a banana and vanilla scent. Flavor is much like it smells and leaves you with a alcohol burn and aftertaste. A good brew but not in the same league as the Rochefort Trappistes 10 that I had recently.

No 700, why not have something good… Murky brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is complex, to say the least. Nuts, fruit, alcohol, toasted malt, sweet malt, yeast, raison, toffee, sugar. Taste is equally complex with sweet malt, sugar, banana, nuts, raison, alcohol, brown sugar, fruit, etc. A little alcohol burn to go with the fruity/nutty finish. Good stuff here.

After some more beers, I find this one fine but something in it’s flavor becomes too medicinic for my taste. I have decided to drop 1 point from It’s flavor and aroma. Old rating: Great beer, Dark reddish color with tan head that diminish slowly, nice plum-raisin aroma with sweet fruity flavor where alcohol is hidden well. Great balance of sweetness and bitterness. Yet my favorite.