Vicaris Kerst

Dilewyns
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Dendermonde, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

750 ml bottle a dark brown colored beer with a white beige head aroma malts dark fruits dry fruits caramel and spicy flavor malts caramel dry fruits dark fruits and spicy

Pours a darkish red/brown. Aromas of spice, coriander, yeast, and alcohol. Flavor has an alcohol taste to it, mixed with a nice smokey dark fruit. Also has strong hints of spice and orange.

Dark Christmasbeer. Caramel, chocolat and some bitterness. Not the best, not the worst christmas-ale

(33cl bottle, 2010 vintage) Pours a brown body with a tall beige head. Aroma of raisins, dates, ginger, anise, nutmeg, caramel, and cinnamon. Flavor of raisins, anise, yeast, caramel, pear, chocolate, and dates.

For a winter belgian beer it is disapointed ! To mutch anise what the beer not make well balanced. But nice hop flavors.?

33cl bottle. Pours with a huge lasting head. Candied, cake, brown sugar, dried prune, vanilla, Xmas cookie spice...very barely wine-esque. Body is lighter than I was expecting. Light oxidation, anise, gingerbread cookies, brown sugar, hints of toasted bitter malt in the finish. Nice stuff, would be better with the carbonation dialed back a touch.

Bottle, bought @ Bier Tempel, Brussels.
Pours hazy brown with a giant, frothy, beige head. Looks to have a bit of carbonation, this one. Exqusite aroma of caramel, prunes, plims, figs, coriander, holly, cardemum and pine. Fairly vinious as well. Mediumto high carbonation, dry and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is very nice as well, caramel, light chocolate, biscuits, Belgian sugar, cardemum again, some pear. Only mildly vinious in the flavour, just elegantly warming. A very, very good Belgian Christmas beer.

Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy brown coloured ale with an big foamy head, and great well balanced spicy taste. Yes its now in the Netherlands the hottest place in Europe on the moment, but this is an great christmas ale for the eastern times.