Unibroue Édition 2005

Formerly brewed at Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Chambly, Canada

Had at our monthly beer barons meeting. Pours a dark brown/blackish color with a small tan head. Very robust fruit and alcohol aromas. Flavor is of fruit, some sour and alcohol.Body is of medium stature with a sweet.alcohol finish.

75 cl bottle at Hopheads´ tasting 30.01.09 (Trygve). Dark brown color, nice small beige head. Aroma is dark fruit and malt. Flavor is the same, with sweetness and hints of alcohol. A lovely beer,

Poured with a grape-y vinous aroma with a whiff of alcohol and powdery yeast. The flavour was also vinous with a bit of an alcoholic burn in the middle, but overall mellow. Passing time has muted the taste a little — I scored a bottle consumed in 2007 slightly higher.

Dégusté à l’autre oeil dans un verre de trois pistole. Apparence brune noir rubis ambré avec peu de mousse. Arômes madérisé, malté, miel de treffle et mûres. Goût boisé de cèdre, mûres et miel. J’ai un seul mot à rajouter, PLÉNITUDE.

Bottle, sampled at Woodshop Quad. Pours a dark brown with no head. Sweet aroma, of malt, dark fruit, berries, and sugar. Taste is also sweet, with malt, sugar, and berries. Sweetness lingers nicely. Still pretty nice.

Pours slightly hazy very dark brown with a 1 finger foamy white head that fades kinda quickly to a skim and ring. Aroma is sweet bready yeast, green grapes, dark fruit, pear, a little caramel and candi sugar. Flavor is very sweet and earthy, musty apple cider, dry leaves, lots of plum, candied dates, caramel, raisin, bread pudding with lots of cinamon, a little basement funk. FInish is very long and complex, lots of fruity, herbal and earth notes stick with you forever. Much better than expected, I dunno how much the age has helped/hurt this stuff but it is pretty fantastic. My only gripe is that it is slightly over carbonated, not badly but it is enough that some of the initial taste is lost to fizz.

Pours dark amber brown with a small tan head. Aroma is malty with notes of slightly sour fruits. Taste is a nice malty sweet taste with dark fruits and slightly sour notes coming through. Has a nice warming to it as well at the end along with a long lasting sweet and sour finish. Pretty good, bottle date 11 2004.

Very dark brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of yeast, wheat, coriander seed, a tiny bit of vegetables and some honey. Medium to Full-bodied; Funky sweet taste of raisins and pit fruit and a bit of grapes then fading into a higher alcohol maltiness with more character. Aftertaste sweet, but very strong and the taste lasts very long. Overall, a complex and original beer. Definitely worth trying, if available - a large variation from 2004! I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in Washington, D.C. on 09-June-2005 at Jon(R888710)’s.