7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at kulminator. Pours amber. Aroma is fruits, booze, vegetables. Flavor is sweet and bitter, fruits, carrots, malt, some booze. Finish is sweet and somewhat boozy. Overall: very good, but past it’s prime probably.

8

Euro trip backlog. Kulminator.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle - Lots of sweet fruity almost stone fruit notes. Cloudy gold with no head. Lots of intense stone fruit, cumquat and some odd spice. Lovely for the age.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Pours a hazy gold with medium off white head that lasts leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is dark fruit, spices, yeast. Medium mouth, candy sugar, spice, vanilla, boozy finish, held up very nice.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at Kulminator. Finally. Orange copper colored beer. Strong aroma of cognac, white grape and vinous raisin. Taste is quite different from other beers, with soft raisin, caramel, white grape, boozy wine and a warming finish. It’s like a marriage between a barley wine and white port. Good stuff.

9.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

330ml bottle @ Shrewsbury Beer Share, Dec 14. Many many thanks to Fin for this! Absolutely astounding. Surpassed my expectations and truly lived up to its legendary status. Complex, smooth & captivating. I think we were all bowled over by this.

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

330ml bottle given by Fin to a couple of people he had never met before (Mat and me). We decided to share it, so on 8th Dec 2014 five of us tasted this wonderful beer during the December Shrewsbury Bottle Exchange Group meeting. Just lovely, what a pity all five of us turned up! You can read what other people have said about this beer because I did not take notes, I just savoured the moment and relaxed with my small portion while the world rushed by.

9.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Five years after the legendary Stille Nacht Reserva 2000 was made, as the first Belgian beer matured on barrels of other kinds of beverages, it was repeated, but almost wholly exported to the States, like so many other terrific Belgians. Tasted at the Kerstbierfestival of that year. This is the ’newer’ Stille Nacht matured on wine barrels, with a deep amber colour and thin but creamy, yellowish head; aroma and taste reveal a baffling complexity, immediately attacking the nose in an incredibly seductive way... Banana, amaretto, limoncello, liquorice, red wine, orange, sweet sherry, vanilla-like tannins, honey, yoghurt, pepper, grapes, cider and so much more. Well rounded, soft and full palate, extremely fruity, extremely vinous with drying tartness, mild bitterness in the finish with the same strong alcohol as in the basic beer but somehow mitigated by woodiness and tannins, very long and utterly satisfying. I was sincerely flabbergastered by this, this is certainly the best of all the good Dolle brews I had so far, and in fact one of the best Belgian beers I ever had the pleasure to taste, unfortunately only in a very limited quantity... World class masterpiece, like its 2000 predecessor.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle thanks to Jezza @BonsVoeux1 beer 2k & 3k share with SarkyNorthener; hazy light orange pour with a thin beige head, cognac and dried fruit aroma, taste sweet caramel, cognac, fortified wine, Demerara sugar, wood, ABV present.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle split with Bruce and Colin in March 2013 at De Heeren van Liedekercke - Denderleeuw, Belgium. Pours mostly clear, bright gold with a big of sediment and a mild, foamy white head. Sweet-smelling aroma with notes of maple syrup, suggestions of oxidation and lightly tangy fruits. Medium to big sweet flavor with some lightly dried pale bread, alcohol, faint oxidation, dried sugars, old fruits. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish with some additional fruity tang, honey, dry caramel, woody alcohol. Nice stuff overall. The effects of aging are still relatively subdued. There’s still plenty of fight left in this fella.