3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours deep deep brown with a tan head. The aroma is malty and yeasty with notes of dark fruits, toast, caramel, and spices. Big Belgian yeasty flavor, with some dark fruits and spices. A bit more carbonated than I would have liked. Really good.
4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Wheeeeee dogs! Big beer! Poured with a huge, light tan, fine, foamy, thick head and some lace. Color is lightly cloudy, reddish brown. Aroma is malt, toffee, dark ripe fruit, leather, dark earth, and licorice. Flavor is like nose but with big sweet and some bitter. Body is excellent with perfect carbonation for this particular beer. Finish is like flavor plus alcohol warmth and is fairly long. Nice end of the day brew.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
2007 vintage
A: Rich ruby accented brown body... massive pinkish-tan head... good retention and light lacing.
S: Deep, dark fruits... raisins, cherries, currants, figs.. some caramel and chocolate... light booze burning through.
T: Much like the nose, there is a lot of rich dark fruits here... slight tartness towards the end... booze is noticeable but restrained... nice chocolate/caramel malt base
M: Assertive carbonation, clean finish... medium bodied...
D: A very nice quad.... not st. bernardus 12 or westy 12... but damn close
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
11.2oz bottle, 2007. Pours a rich brown-black with a vigorous light brown head and light lacing. Aroma is bready, rich, and vinous, with raisins, spice, and a little booze. Flavor is rich with honey-like sweetness, along with more spices, plum, liquorice, cane sugar. Smooth, even with fairly high carbonation. Very tasty, no doubt about it. In a way it reminds me of some of the great sweet meads I’ve had, like Apis Poltorak Jadwiga - sweet, boozy, and spicy, all in a beautiful expressive blend. I’d love to have this available locally - I’m sure it’d be a frequent treat.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. The aroma is very malty, light sweet and alcoholic. The head is small, beige and creamy with a normal duration, the body is nearly black. The taste is very malty, light bitter and a little bit sweet, a little bit like syrup. The body is medium strong to very strong with a texture like syrup, creamy and light oily with a normal carbonation.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
fruity, spiced, licorice, raisin really complex aromas. strong and perfectly equilibrated taste. amazing body and texture.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Unknown to me till recently (Canvas). I Find this to be one of the best on the planet. Taste varies slightly for brew to brew, but that is probably to be expected anyway (and the case for all others as well).
This has the richest taste (and the variations of reserva and grand reserva as well) of everything I came across. Hats off to the Struise-Boys.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Det första ser är en fin och mycket mörk mahogneyfärg. Skummet var inget att prata om.
Doften är fantastisk komplex, och även om detta inte är en dedikerat julöl, så är faktisk jul det första jag tänker på när jag sätter nosen ned i glaset. Det doftar härliga kryddor, malt, julmust och en hel del mynta. Tycker även jag känner en liten aning tobak.
Smaken är mycket söt, och som i doften är det mycket av allt. Kryddor, mynta, lite tobak och även mörka teblad.
Även om båda doft och smak är mycket av allt, så tycker jag att ölen känns ganska rund i munhålen. Den känns inte alls jobbig på något sätt – jag bara njuter.
Alkoholprocenten ger ölen en perfekt balanserad hetta och faktisk så hittar jag inget negativt alls i denna.
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