Kerstvuur (2011-)
Pirlot in Zandhoven, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.13
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Goozen (5540) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy orange coloured brew with an nice dry bitter taste and hints of apple, biscuit and citrus fruits. Quite nice Christmas beer.
tokyobeerdrinker (9006) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Dark golden colour, small creamy golden head. Aroma spice, maybe ginger, bit of cream, bread, yeasty. Taste is similar, cream, yeast, clove, white pepper. Some booze sweetness. Pretty seasonal, and quite nice, but one is enough.
Jybi (2410) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Ils n’y sont pas allés de main morte sur les épices ! Elles sont bien trop présentes sur cette Kerstvuur, ce qui a pour conséquence de complètement la linéariser, de lui faire perdre de son intérêt et de la rendre quelque peu ennuyeuse sur la fin. Dommage, car elle jouissait sinon d’un excellent équilibre entre alcool, amertume et sucre. Couleur blond orangé foncé en verre (EBC de 16), notre bière de Noël ne jouit que de très peu de mousse à sa surface. Le nez est sur le miel, l’orange, la pêche, la banane, des arômes de fût de chêne mais surtout des épices qui viennent couvrir l’ensemble avec girofle, anis, coriandre et gingembre. En bouche, cela est encore plus marquant avec ce cocktail d’épices qui prend le palais (avec en complément une touche de poivre). L’équilibre y est cependant très bon avec une amertume à 32 d’EBU donnant une petite dose de fraîcheur, un sucre permettant une texture suave et un alcool à 9 % conférant juste ce qu’il faut de punch. La deuxième bouche remet une couche sur les épices avec une arrière bouche homogène mais sur une bonne ampleur. Le final, long permet à un alcool chaleureux de nous réchauffer. A noter une petite astringence. Trop d’épices tue les épices !
TomHendriksen (8095) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 0.5
Fles gedeeld met Roelzie en Koenzie. Het is een donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim. Fles was 3 jaar over datum, waarschijnlijk spoiled. Ontzettend zure geur en smaak. Bah.
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
As "Kempisch Vuur Winter" Dark blond and clear with tight foam head. Aroma is an interesting mix of tropical fruits and a little bit of spice. Flavour is similar. There's something of a scented candle about this one. A bit soapy too.
lore (7817) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
hazy orange colour, moderate sized off-white head; aroma of linden honey, dried apricot and slight figs, bready notes and hints of vanilla; taste has the same notes as can be felt in the aroma with alcoholic spiciness; enjoyable Belgian strong ale
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
F: big, off-white, not long lasting. C: dark gold, hazy, with a lot of big yeasty debris floating in. A: malt, orange, apricot, coriander, banana, hint of ginger, apple, alcohol. T: malt, overripe fruits, figs, banana, peach, coriander, spicy, alcohol, yeasty, light bready, apparently the same experience as in Alengrin rate this is unbalanced winter brew not worth to try, bottled 2 years before BB: 02/10/17, tasted as “Kempisch Vuur Winter”-blue label, 0,33l bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
As Kempisch Vuur Winter with blue label, which is apparently the same thing as Kerstvuur. Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Way too soon for a Christmas beer, but why not... Medium thick, lightly lacing, off-white head retaining as a creamy rim around the edge and in a thin greyish veil on top of a hazy, orangey peach blonde beer with dots of proteins floating throughout - clearly an older bottle (best before October 2017 though). Adding the sediment unsurprisingly brings no relief, as the beer becomes very murky, a deep ochre-tinged brownish orange, like the content of a rain pool on a malm-rich soil. Aroma of allspice, coriander seed, apricot, fried egg, white rum, candied banana, gingerbread, butterscotch, toast, peach, stewed beef (the proteins at work), ginger root, cooked pumpkin, bubblegum, soggy sandwiches, red apple, cloves, glue, some fusel alcohols. Sweet onset, estery, hints of candied fig, peach and banana with an apple-like crispness and gooseberry sourishness somewhere, quite some residual candi sugar sweetness but not cloying, spritzy carbonation (in fact overcarbonated even for the style) with a souring and coarsening effect but dramatically settling down after a while, alcohol and spices becoming (way too) apparent at a very early stage over a caramelly and very lightly nutty malt basis, gaining strength towards the end, very phenolic (cloves but solvent-like as well, to the point where it becomes obnoxious), some deep earthy hop bitterness, a truckload of soapy, sweetish, perfumey spices (mostly star aniseed and coriander I suppose), some bready and - with sediment - even ’beefy’ yeastiness, and (more than anything else) a very astringent and tiring rum-like alcohol dominance, heating and leaving a very wry effect on the root of the tongue, overpowering all the rest. Not so much a Scotch ale-based Belgian Christmas beer, lighter in colour and in that sense almost a Belgian barley wine if such a thing exists, so still sweet and (over)spiced. Regardless of (sub)style: this is clearly a messy, rather unpleasant brew, looking unattractive from the start, overspiced, totally unbalanced and, most of all, way too alcoholic, though this astringent effect softens with adding the sediment. A failure from both a technical and a conceptual point of view, at least the bottle I got; one of the most ill-fated Belgian Christmas beers I ever had to gobble up, near to drain pour, actually. Sorry mr. Pirlot!
Bierridder (4160) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
29/01/2016 @home - 33cl bottle from brewer. Hazy dark yellow with huge head. Nose is light fruity hops, some sourness. Taste is bitterheid, accents of fruit, sour touch, dry light bitter ending. Nothing like the typical winterbeer and than should be appreciated.
Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Kerstvuur (2011-) from Pirlot 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Donker geel bier met schuim. Smaak en presentatie is niet als standaard kerstbier, echter zeker niet slecht. Fruitig, krachtig en licht bitter hoppig, licht zoet, kruidig en met iets van abrikoos en citrus.
Earlier Rating: 6/1/2014 Total Score: 3.7
Helder oranje bruin bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is krachtig, bitter en licht zuur, citrus en caramel. Blijft lang hangen, uitstekend bier.