Bière d’exception, à la robe dorée et opaque et à l’effervescence très présente. Le nez est très porté sur les levures. Très bonne longueur en bouche avec des notes de miel et de citron. La Bush de Charmes s’apparente très bien à des vins liquoreux, qu’elle remplacera à merveille sur des desserts au chocolat amer. Goût plus personnel, je la trouve un brin trop sucrée avec un palais alourdi en fin de dégustation.

opalescent golden colour, huge, medium dense white head; aroma of dried fruits, raisins, cooked apple, biscuits, oak barrel, hints of acetone and slight buttery as well as vanilla notes; taste is similar to the aroma with vinous and cheesy notes; amazing Belgian strong ale with some geuze-like notes

75 cl bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, slight butterish. Sweet, fruity, phenolic. Bitter. Smooth. Wooden. Light wienous. Sweet and mellow fruity finish.

White burgundy barrel aged tripel, 75 cl luxury bottle from Willems. Egg-white, medium sized, frothy to even rocky head breaking in the middle after some time and leaving thick ’papery’ lacing on the edges; colour is an initially lightly hazy ’old gold’ with a warm yellow hue becoming increasingly misty and orangey as the bottle is emptied. Strong aroma of gooseberries and ’gentle’ lemon zest, hints of yoghurt, green apple, yellow Zespri kiwi, pear, dry white wine, subtle vanilla-like tannins and oak, tropical flowers, soapy starfruit, some wet leather, hay, lime, white bread, canned pineapple, calvados. Very fruity onset, strong gooseberry, pear and pineapple, sweet and honeyish on one side and tart (even softly lemony) on the other side; soft carbo, very subtle and adding to a vinous, slick, smooth moufhfeel. The sweet-and-sourish fruitiness play along well into the finish over a background of lightly bready, caramelly and honeyish malts gliding effortlessly over the tongue. Finish is a continuation of this play of malts and esters but dried with an oaky, clearly drying but still gentle, elegant woodiness and peppery, leafy hop bitterishness playing its merely structural role very well, as well as the expected glow of warming, white port-like alcohol; an unmistakable white wine flavour remains after swallowing, well balanced with the sweet malts and drying aspects of the beer itself. Honeyish sweetness clings a bit to the throat, as is the case with the basic beer as well; other than that, this proves to be quite interesting, the white wine has been integrated in a tasteful way, interfering with the beer in a lively manner without ruining it, almost duelling with it as it were, and lending it a kind of noble, near ’sour ale’-like profile. The blonde equivalent to Bush des Nuits I guess, but in any case another fascinating Dubuisson luxury product. Classy dessert beer and worth the price for sure, very Belgian and indeed very ’winey’ as well, not quite unlike e.g. Dolle’s Zannekin and other of the better beer-wine crossovers. Ideal to lure wine people into beer, perhaps?

Huge, very fine, just off-white head, irregular and lacey over very carbonated fully orange beer. Very vinous nose, white wine in old wood; citrus, lemon even a bit lambic - or rather gueuze - like aroma. Toasted malts with lemon and spritzy CO2, heavy alcohol in the background, outstanding sour-sweet balance. Again close to spontaneous fermentation. And vinous, of course. Despite the massive alcohol & alcoholheat, quite spritzy and light. This is utterly awesome ; by far the best from Dubuisson.