Bottle. Clear, dark red brown with small light beige head. Yeasty aroma, caramel, malt, spice. Yeasty, vinous flavour, caramel, dried fruit, warming alcohol. Mild spice, nicely discrete.

50 cl bottle. Pours dark brown to black. Tan head. Aroma is dense fruity and dark roasted malty, annis seed. Fruity, wineous. Sweet. Slight yeasty. Sugarish. Lingering deep malty and spiced. Mild herbal. Mild bitterness. Sweet and sugarish finish.

The organic version in this series, a brand Herslev is apparently still tinkering with; intended as a Belgian style quadrupel spiced with star anise and coriander seed. Bottle straight from Denmark, thanks to my girlfriend Goedele. Irregular, moussy, pale greyish beige head lacing in dots over a dark but translucent bronze-brown beer with mahogany hue. Aroma of caramel candy, dried plum, raisins, wet toast, coriander seed, walnut liqueur, bread dough, dry tree leaves, star anise but subtly so, port-like onsetting oxidation, pear syrup, fig, cocoa dust, some iron. Sweet dried plums and figs in the onset, caramelly malt sweet body, full and softly carbonated with a resinous and lightly metallic edge; toasty bitter accent in the end, Scotch-like with coriander and star anise noticeable but subtle enough not to disturb - something a lot of actual Belgian strong brown ales can learn from. Warming, rum- and port-like alcohol, a chalky effect, lingering toasty bitterish and caramelly sweet malts and a soft herbal hop bitter touch round things off, with the coriander seed spiciness lingering a bit afterwards. A Belgian style Scotch or Christmas ale of sorts, not bad apart from that vague metallic note, tasteful, rich and honestly better than expected.

Keg at Skaal, CPH, 11/11/17. 2016 version. Rich chestnut amber with a light beige covering. Nose is fruit peel, light spice, stale Xmas cake, earthy. Taste comprises pear drop, varnish, fruit loaf, sweet and sour notes, toffee. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, drying close. Mediocre stuff ... delivers little for the ABV.