Victory V12

Thanks to rustychiles for the share (2006 vintage). Pours a deep turbid chestnut brown with decent sized head that dissipates nicely. Aroma is very fig/date/burnt sugar intensive. Taste is quite cloyingly sweet with a definite chalkiness to the palate. Also surprisingly bitter on the palate, though I think that is from the high alcohol. Notes of oats and wheat/hay are certainly present as well. The taste is generally Belgian spice and straightforward dark sugars. Not very exciting and really hard to drink.

Pours a nice copper color with a large off white head. Aroma is yeasts, candi sugar, spices, faded hops and caramel malt. Flavor is the same, with a chalky grainy lingering flavor that combines with a lot of sweetness in the finish.

750ml bottle, caged and corked. Vintage 2005 (bottled on March 29, 05.) Deep amber/copper color. Big white fizzy head. The aroma lost most of the hops. Flavor has aged superiorly well. If I had to guess, this beer would not be American. Definitely Belgian. And if you told me US, I would guess Allagash. Flavor is a nicely balanced character. Fruit, and yeast, and dough, and grass, and clove. very nice. 03 may 08.

[2123-20090502] 750mL bottle. Mildly boozy sweet aroma, much like leaves on the ground. Clear, rich orange red body with a quick foamy white head. Sweet boozy malt flavour has a bit of earthiness and grass. Heavy medium-full body. Tasty.
(from Premier Gourmet, Buffalo, NY; w/ DuctTape, jerc)

750 L bottle. Cloudy yellow-golden pour with a huge thick white frothy head. Aroma of citrus, sugar, yeast and earth. Fantastic taste of yeast, spices, clove with an acidic finish.

Muddy amber in color and a decent beige colored head. The smell is fruits, alcohol, candi sugar, toffee, raisans, and malts. The taste is toffee, raisans, alcohol, all sorts of sugar, fruits, and yeast. Felt like a decent homebrew.

Pours cloudy amber with excellent red accents and a thin white head. Aroma is hoppy citrus, caramel and dark fruit malt, and overtones of clove and banana. Flavor is very sweet- rife with malt complexities. Raisin and plum are predominant, with caramel, banana and brown sugar falling in too. Yeast character is present but largely overshadowed by residual sugars. Warming but not overly alcoholic. Palate is moderately prickly from mild carbonation, with a decently full body for the style. Leaves a sticky, sugary coating that turns somewhat dry. Very nice.

Sampled at Springslicker’s Fish Fry ’09. Hazy orange pour with a whitish pour. Malt aroma, candi sugar, and a fairly well masked abv. Huge residual sweetness.