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Bottle - big, beautiful aroma of cherries and berries. Quite cloudy and red with a creamy white head. Flavor matches the aroma - many cherries, very fruity and yeasty. A very well hidden 9%. A touch fizzy and soft on the palate. This is a beautiful beer!

This beer has a brown/red body - hue apperance and a coarse light brown scum collar. I have drunk the beer from the bottle and it had a lot of carbonic acid. The initial flavor taste is fruity with a little bit sweet afther tast.

Dark brown color. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is dark malts, chocolate and raisins. A medium bodied Belgian strong ale. Malts are chocolate, brown sugar, a touch of cherry and molasses. Nice smooth taste. Lots of fruit flavors mostly cherry and blackberries (?). Hides the 9% alcohol very well. A little warming with a touch of alcohol bite at the finish. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and dry. Aftertaste is slightly sweet, touch of alcohol.

Good appearance on the glass even though there do appear to be some floaties here and there. Good rich nose which complements the weather outside in the northern hemisphere. There is a warming undertone that finishes off well in a dry after palate. From the bottle regretfully as I didn’t get to the bar.

Dry, chalky aroma with strong molasses notes. Served in a semi-transparent plastic cup. Opaque. Dark brown. Off-white head. Very good Belgian strong ale flavor. Wonderful, actually. Would buy again.

I really liked this one. Fruity, creamy, a little bit of dryness, some sour taste as well.

Dense deep red appearance, thick head formation. Sweet, strong black cherry aroma, mild yoghurty cheesiness, quite intriguing. Smooth creamy black cherry flavor, overlapped by a dry yeastiness. Heavy bitterness throughout, maybe a little too much so.

Mohogany brown w/ a short lived light beige head, probably from alcohol. Toasty & caramel malt, intense fruitiness like a grape fruit rollup; light clove spicy yeast & perfumey alcohol. Toasty malt flavor, low clove flavor from the yeast, well balanced but malt flavored. Raisin and plum fruit & sugary sweetness. Caramel in between all that. Highly carbonated, medium body, warming alcohol, but very smooth. Very tasty & fruity. More so than the other beers I’ve had from this brewery. I wish I could get my hands on more from this place!!!