11/06/2020 - 75cl bottle shared by/with tderoeck and sebletitje @tderoeck's place.
Bit classical Belgian style and not even the best.
GUSHER!

(Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, 6 Dec 2017) Pale golden colour with frothy, white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of peaches, coriander and green apples. Fruity, malty taste with peaches, coriander, soft malt, grass and a mild herbal bitterness. Full body, with a certain sweetness. Quite strong, but tasty and really well balanced for its strength. Nice one.

Bottle at home. Has an amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma of wet hay, almonds, alcohol, apricots and pale malt. The flavour is similar. Has a soft and slick mouth feel, medium to full body and a light bitterness. Sweet, malty and well balanced.

Golden, cloudy with a large foamy and lasting white head. Aroma of fruits, banana and sweet malt. Sweet with a good fruit and banana ending. Bb. 03.2020. Bought at Vinmonopolet.no 11.2018

Dark golden colour, white foam. Nose of peach, caramel, some banana. Taste is warming sweet, notes of dried fruit. Nice winter beer.

0,33 flaske fra Belgisk Bryg hjemme jan-19: den har det travelt med å komme ut av flaska (bb. 090219), men jeg er alltid beredt og får mesteparten av innholdet pent parkert i glasset. Klar gylden med højt skum. Hvite rips, jordbær, kardemomme og muligens litt koriander. Sødmen balanserer krydderinntrykket, så dette glir problemløst over ganen. Saftig, fruktig og delikat på alle måter. Alkoholen er godt skjult og merkes først i mageregionen. En lekker juleøl, best på julaften +/- seks måneder. Inspirerende følge til Elgars fiolinkonsert (Kennedy/LPO/Handley) på stereoanlegget.

Bottle shared at home - golden Amber pour with small white head. Sweet fruity and malty with some notes of light dried fruit, some sweet caramel and fudge, medium body, spiced sweet malty finish.

Verhaeghe’s current Christmas beer, the follow-up and replacement of the old Noël – Christmas – Weihnacht, now rebranded under their Barbe label. Thick and frothy, egg-white, moussy head over a lightly hazy, pure, warm, metallic ‘old gold’ coloured beer with a pale orangey tinge, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of spiced bread, (actual) clove, honey, old wrinkled apples, clear oxidation (sweetish – a bit like old oxidized white wine), star aniseed, dried orange peel. Sweetish onset, apple and pineapple with a light dash of banana, fizzy carbonation, slick and somewhat resinous mouthfeel; smooth cereally, very clearly white bready-wheaty backbone with oxidized edges but not in an unpleasant way, still a tad metallic and ‘rusty’ though, with increasing added spiciness towards the end, very clove-like with notes of aniseed and coriander seed as well; herbal touch of hop bitterness remains limited in power, alcohol gives a very light ‘afterwarmth’. Spiced sweet tripel just like the original Noël – Christmas – Weihnacht, which is a long time since I had it but probably is more or less the same.

F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, almost clear. A: sweet malty, fruity, banana, bit honey, hint of orange, caramel. T: malty, vaguely fruity, bit peach and banana, bit metallic, caramel, bready, spicy, full body but quite simple BSA, medium carbonation, bit funny to see rates over 4 here but several years ago may be I would also give high points here, now nope, not great yet not bad, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Carrefour market – St. Michel @ Etterbeek, Brussels.