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Lacy yellowish head over hazy amber beer. Sweet, rosewater-like nose; just smells sticky! Taste is better: leafy, bready, like a German Dunkler Doppelbock. Finish is even dry. Medium to well-bodied, long, ever so slightly sticky feel and aftertaste, but not cloying. The nose made me fear the worst. The taste is actually quite OK. Belgian top-fermenting Doppelbock?Earlier Rating: 11/17/2010 Total Score: 3.7Beautiful foxy-chestnut coloured, clear beer with an amber-beige, huge head. Very bready/leafy/earthy sweet-sweetish nose, with some bananaester, smelling for all the world as a "Dunkler Bock" or "Dunkler Weizenbock". Spicy-strong flavoured, sweetish beer with lots of melanoidins, sweet & roasted malts, overripe banana and other grains. Finish has some faint bitterish, earthy notes, without losing its spiciness ane sweetness, caramelsyrup-like, if not cloying. Well-carbonated, rather well-bodied, alcoholwarming. Decent balance, decent beer. But IMO certainly not a French Bière de Garde, but a Dunkles Doppelweizenbock. Maybe top-fermented, but a Bock nonetheless.

Tap @ cafe Grendelpoort. Dark color, short head. Aroma of dark caramel malt, roasted barley, coffee, quite spicy, hint of licorice. Slight sweet in taste, medium bitterness. Licorice and coffee. Usually, xmas spices overwhelm a beer, but together with an almost imperial stout feel to it, the beer was quite ok. --- Beer aliased from original tick of WNTR on 23 Mar 2018 at 21:39 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Bottle, gift from a friend, BB 22/03/2021. Almost clear copper color, big rocky head. Aroma of spicy belgian yeast and additional spices, caramel, sugary. Spicy bitterness, sweet sugary malt. Actually, quite what I expected from this beer up front. Ok.