Gauloise Christmas
Brasserie du Bocq in Purnode, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.06
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Appearance : Brown with a dark robe, generous and fine white foam. Nose: Rich with a touch of coriander and liquorice. Taste: Round, heady, pleasant aromas of the special malts used. Remark: tasting between 8 ° and 12 °, typical ‘end of the year’ beer (high-end beer to enjoy with wisdom with family and friends).
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle. Pours a shiney dark-amber or chestnut colour. The nose has a wierd combination of soap and smokey bacon. The taste has a meaty, chocolately, then finishing with a liquoricey-soap thing. The palate is big in structure, with a creamy thick texture in the middle section and quite an elegant creamy finish. Overall, this is weird but I like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2011
at 09:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ DØE Meeting. Pours dark amber with fluffy offwhite head. Aroma of sweet malts, caramel, chocolate, fruit. Taste is malts, yeast, caramel, chocolate, christmas cake, raisins, sweets. Full body, creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. 161111
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2011
at 09:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear dark reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and yeasty. Flavor is very sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish with a little warming alcohol. This was a one year old bottle. I had a two year old bottle at a tasting two days ago and it wasn’t nearly as good. 181111
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2011
at 11:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.75l bottle. Guess it's time to drag this old thing up from the cellar since it's closing in on that time of the year. It pours a dark clouded brown body with a nice slowly fading big-bubbly and really heavy lacing tanned head. The aroma is spicy cardamom with some alcohol, dark fruits, light malty and some chocolate hints, but mostly spicy and sweet. Lively carbonation and a fizzing and sticky to oily mouthfeel. The flavors are quite on the sweet side with lots of spices here also. Chocolate, candy, nuts, cardamom, malts, apples and lots of dark dried fruits also. Ends with a little alcohol touch that suits it quite nice. A really nice and sweet experience!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2011
at 05:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle: A bit unclear, deep chestnut-amber coloured, mid-sized fluffy "dirty" off-white head; moderate sweet caramelly nose, including toasted malt and dried fruits; moderate sweet-bitter flavour, medium bodied; sweet caramelly finish, presenting some coriander and liquorice, too. Yawn, all in all a pretty average - but heavy - brew.......
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2011
at 23:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled 750ml. -Brown coloured with red glare, big creamy brownish head, pleasant spicy and slight acidic fruity nose. Mild roasted malt, dried fruits and caramel with notes of hops and spices. Some traces of alcohol near the end. Tasty dubbel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2011
at 05:06