Solstice d'Hiver
(has 8 batches)
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Barley Wine - Barley Winter|
Score
7.33
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This deep-brown winter ale offers up complex aromas of fruit, alcohol and hops. The boozy mouth feel is vaguely sweet with hints of brunt caramel. Up-front bitterness accompanies a surprising element of complex red fruit, followed by an expressively hoppy finish. Solstice d’Hiver is brewed only once a year, and is then aged for 4 to 5 months before being sold. This aging process is necessary to achieve an ideal equilibrium between the sharp bitterness and the other flavours in the beer. After aging, it is then sold starting mid-December of each year, until stocks last.
This beer was first crafted at our Montreal brewpub in December of 1998.
This beer was first crafted at our Montreal brewpub in December of 1998.
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7.5/10
Happy Canada Day, yous hosers! I don’t love hop-forward barleywines but thankfully it balances out after 90 minutes out of the fridge. My only Canadian beer on hand, believe it or yes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2020
at 23:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brown with off white head - Malt aroma with some notes of roast - Malt body with some roasted notes with caramel with some hop bitterness as well - Malt goes into the finish with a herbal bitterness from hops and some alcochol as well - This was good
Tried
on 19 Apr 2020
at 20:10
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ You’ll Never Walk Alone, Kolding. Pours cloudy chestnut brown with airy beige head. Clear aroma of malt, caramel, yeast and fruit, with taints of spice. Bitter flavour of hops and pepper, with sweetish notes of caramel malt, yeast, nuts and cinnamon and some fruity touches. Bitter and estery aftertaste with malty and nutty touches. Warming alcohol presence. Well-balanced and enjoyable. A very nice BE that is not excessively sweet. Good stuff, like nearly always from DdC.
Tried
on 16 Nov 2019
at 13:49
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2019
at 21:39
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Creamy beige head left a spotty cover on a dark mahogany coloured still body. Malt, coal & tobacco aroma. Medium to full bodied, oily on the palate with minimal carbonation & a spritely back. Herbaceous tasting with angostura bitters, spices, malt, vegetal & turnip with very bitter finish.
Tried
on 22 Oct 2019
at 16:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Almost clear deep copper golden body with a small, lacing beige head. Aroma feels like sweet malt, dry fruit and caramel. Quite straight forward really, but in a nice noble way. Flavor is not surprisingly sweet with malt, dry fruit, brown sugar, warming alcohol and quite bitter. Almost a bit harsh bitter, but in a strange way quite pleasant. Fine body and long lasting sweet and bitter aftertaste with the same unusually nice harshness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2019
at 17:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
341ml bottle. Clear, reddish, chestnut colour with average, firm, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, off-white head. Caramel malty and slightly fruity aroma, notes of caramel and dried fruit, plum, morello, raisin. Taste is minimally dry fruity and sweet-ish malty, minimally bitter alcoholic, notes of dried fruit, plum, morello, raisin, a chocolately touch; minimally warming, alcoholic and slightly bitter finish. Full body, viscous-creamy texture, super-soft, smooth, silky palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2019
at 21:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
0,33 flaske fra Systembolaget Hansa, Malmø, delt med skibsreden på Holmens aktivitetsdag 2.påskedag 2019: lett uklar kobber med kort skum. Innsmigrende aroma av tørkede frukter (særlig fiken, svisker, rosiner og dadler), sigarboks og jamaicansk brun rom. Smaken følger opp, men skjemmes dessverre av en besk alko-burn bakerst avslutningen. Jeg får assosiasjoner til Tuxi Forte hostesaft..
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2019
at 17:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared with JMD at HNB 22.04.19. Clear copper. Fairly persistent beige head. Fine aroma of dried berries, figs, dark caramel and dark rhum. Taste of medium medium dark malt, figs, alcohol and dark rhum. Brittle and alcohol is lingering on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2019
at 17:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Semmi hab, sötétbarna szín. Édeskés, karamelles, gabonás illat. Gabonás, karamellás, kissé fűszeres ízek. Testes, enyhén szénsavas, közepesen keserű. Kellemes sör, de kissé keserűbb mint az átlag barley wine-ok.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2019
at 00:43