(bottle, 75cl) Hazy, pale golden colour with a blond and unstable frothy head. Slightly yeasty spicy sweet pale malty aroma with grainy accents and a vinous fruity touch, including notes of pears and physalis. Sweet flavour, medium to full bodied with a spritzy carbonation. Slightly grainy pale malty taste with restrained fruity notes and alcoholic strength shining through from the middle part; sweet malty and discreetly bitter hoppy finish with notes of warming alcohol. Drinkable but also a bit profane. 26.XII.11

Bouteille: Golden, lively carbonation, stable white creamy head, a faint tinge of X-mas spices in the sweet grainy-malty nose, restrained traces of peaches and oranges, alcohol detectable; moderate sweet-bitter flavour, medium bodied; citrus-fruit in the sweet and alcoholic finish. Nothing wrong with it, but kind of a liquid sleeping pill......

33cl bottle from Kermis. Thin white head. Clear golden pour with large suspended particles. Aftertaste is flat.

Bottle shared with Deanso. Pours clear golden but with major sediment. Citrus and coriander aroma and flavour with an unpleasant aftertaste. Not a good Xmas beer

Fra flaske 0,33l på rommet / Keizershof Hotell i Aalst 30 Apr 11. Blond. Litt uklar. OK kremaktig skum. Lett syrlig & fruktig aroma. Krydret smak hvor alkoholen overtar mer og mer. Etiketten drar ned. Litt vulgær.

Poured from bottle at Kerstbierenfestival Essen, Belgium, December 2010. Nothing good, nothing bad about it, but I liked the Pere Noel better.

Bouteille au Rembrandt, Enghien. Dorée, mousse épaisse blanche. Arôme de malt, fine couche de houblon. En bouche, malt et caramel, sucre brun suivi d’une fine amertume, alcool est réchauffant et garde un aspect de fruits noirs; cerise et de levure belge. Pas mauvaise, mais rappelle étrangement ces bières de style malt liquor tout en ayant ce petit côté de bière belge.

8th February 2008
Very wheaty and quite light in colour. Very dry and with a somewhat bitter fruit finish. Bubblegum overtones. Too much effort to get down.

Interestingly enough this bottle says that it is still brewed by Duwac & Co. in Mouscron, but Ratebeer says the place is out of business! A case of being cheap and using up old labels, or something else? I don’t have the time to figure it out, I’m too busy drinking! Yet, I suspected as much from the bottle, it’s one of those opaque-ceramic dealybobs that Houyghe uses for their stuff like Tremens and Guillotine. But, on the other hand, I was in Mouscron just last week and was hoping that somehow my finding this beer validated the brief time I spent in that town. So, this one pours with absolutely massive head and a boring gold body. The aroma is that of a pale lager, lots of malts and carbonation pushing the smell up into your nose. The flavour is exactly that of a strong pale lager, or a Belgian blonde, with a strong hoppy finish. This is interesting, not what I expected, and not especially a Christmas-type beer. Nonetheless it’s drinkable and enjoyable.