Victory V12

Great spicy Belgian aroma. Wow, this is a nice beer. Strong, spicy, flavorful, a truly tasty beverage.

Bottled 4/19/07. Pours a prismatic clear copper, and rallies a humble head of creamy eggshell. Lace refuses to form. The sinus-clearing nose teems with sugared plums, watermelon schnapps, licorice, and solvent; latent lychee, powdered donuts, and tobacco impressions awaken seconds later. Upfront syrupy, but not cloying sweetness features peaty pear, toast, and strong black tea flavors. Staggeringly malty… yet finishes very tart, woodsmoky, and herbal… and an unexpected burst of lemongrass and brie. The mouthfeel: tactile and elastic, like licking tits, and sharpened not by CO2, but by mindf*cking fission-hot ethanol and leathery friction. A glassy, jackhammer shiraz/black cherry afterburn closes each sip like a staple through the tongue. Far less complex than I expected… and squinting through the overblown alcohol fog, I detect an ale closer to a Scottish wee heavy than anything else. In pursuit of strength, Victory has botched its goal of refined seductress, and instead Frankensteined a boozy whore of a beer, best viewed through its own self-creating beer goggles.

25.4 oz bottle, 3/29/05. Clear woody brown with a tan haze. Nose of raisins, yeast and candied fruits with a shot of brandy. Carb tends to foamy, body a little thin but still substantial and a bit sticky. Toffee and caramel with fruitcake. A solid offering when you need a Quad.

Thin, tan head. Sweet fruity aroma. Nice alcohol burn. Taste of candy and raisins. One of the better beers from Victory.

Bottle. Thanks Rick. Nice pour with an off white head. Sweet aroma with some fruit undertones. Nice alcohol taste as it warmed. Nice beer all around. One of my favs from victory.

Thanks to my friend Sam for passing this one on to me. Pours with a clear deep orange/amber body with a tightly packed head of off-white that laces nicely. Fruity Marzipan alcohol aroma. Sweet, thick, viscous, syrupy. Too cloying for me.

Pours a dark burnt orange with a fairly small offwhite head. Aroma of brown sugar, cherries, plums, lemoncello, wood, and maybe some faint cheese in the background. Mellow aroma. Big sweet caramelly and brown sugar taste with a bit of wood, light cloves, a little bit of cherries and raisins. Yeast flavors are very clean. Finishes woody, warming, toffee-esque and bit tannic. Aftertaste is no different than the finish, which isn’t bad, but I’d prefer I slightly more complex fade on this beer. Fairly low carbonated for a Belgian beer, but I like that. Full to medium bodied, slick texture, but it’s enveloping enough, and as I said before, it’s just a bit more clean feeling (and tasting) than say Brasserie de Rocs. Mildly hot, but it’s balanced. Good stuff, I like the sweet flavors, but it could have had a more complex finish and more pungent yeast characteristics.

Pours out a nice darker brown color with a decent head. Aroma is sweet and fruity. Strange this BS did not have a lot of yeast in the aroma. Flavor was nice when it was cold. as it warmed, the alcohol became dominate. too dominate. This beer would be great at around 9% instead of 12, but i guess the name wouldnt be as cool.