Bottled 330ml (AIH128)
Murky dark amber colour, small beige head. Belgian yeasty, dusty aroma. Medium-bodied. Candy sugar, yeasty spiceyness, dry finish. Old school Belgian ale, not very exiciting.

Dark amber colour, white foam. Sweet, alcoholic, notes of peach, sweet malts, rather alcoholic finish.

33cl bottle from Spar Oostende. F: medium, tan, average retention. C: red gold, hazy. A: malty, honey, mellow fruity, caramel, bit toast, spicy, bit rum alcohol. T: sweet malty, bit honey, caramel, vaguely mellow fruity, red apples peels, bit spicy, yeasty, toast, medium to full body, medium carbonation, another BSA yet not bad for me if may be too average for local, enjoyed.

Bottle picked up from Dranken Vande Woude, Pervijde Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium, consumed at home Sunday 27th May 2018 sat by the pond. Pours amber with an off white head. Lots of caramel but there is a tangy fruity edge, the alcohol is surprisingly well hidden. Soft in the mouth, it finishes a little bit dry. A7 A4 T6 P3 Ov13 3.3

One of De Meester’s original brews, a strong Belgian ’ambrée’ with heavily cobweb-lacing, beaten egg-white, thickly moussy, frothy, irregularly and heavily lacing and very stable head captured after slow gushing; lightly hazy orange blonde robe turning darker orange and misty with sediment. Aroma of dried peach, honey, mushy banana, apple peel, powder sugar, pineapple, canned apricot, sweet clover, old cake, brown rum, damp earth, cooked carrot, coriander, old cloves and dito star aniseed, raw cauliflower but nothing DMS-like. Fruity, quite crisp onset, lots of sweet red apple, redcurrant, raw pineapple and yellow plum with a dash of banana, spritzy carbonation with minerally effects, smooth and soft mouthfeel. Caramelly and lightly nutty, also somewhat bready malt middle upon which the fruity esters persist along with clove-like phenols growing stronger in the end as well as slightly sticky residual white candi sugar, nutty malt sweetness continuing with a light toasted edge and some earthy, mildly spicy hops providing gentle bitterness blending with the earthy yeastiness and the phenols, an unmistakable cliché coriander bittersweet and spicy soapiness and an afterglow of warming, if not heating, brandy-like alcohol which manages to avoid astringency. Relatively pleasant beer, in all, very Belgian in all respects and perhaps too classic for this day and age, but delivering what it claims to be: a strong, warming, amber-hued Belgian with coriander and the usual overload of fruity esters and spicy phenols. Decent, in all, but like the other Meester beers, not really adding anything significant to the Belgian beer map.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is phenolic and toasted malt. Toffee and slight phenolic. Caramelish and slight malty, bitter finish.

Sampled at BAB 2016. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours unclear amberbrown. Small white head. Smell is grainy, sharp ambermalts. Taste is sharp, ambermalts/ Sweet, bit metallic. OK

06/02/2016 sample @ BAB shared by tderoeck, 77ships, kradel, ... Amber coloured, malty, some sweetness, light on hops, dull.

Sampled bottled @ Bierfestival Brugge 2016! Thank you for sharing. Dark brown amber with an off-white head. Nose is boring spoiled red fruits with sugar, overly sugary with heavy plaster yeast. Taste is rotting spoiled fruits, alcoholic, fermenting spoiled berries, alcoholic, plaster yeast. Body is fizzy spoiled red fruits mixed with plaster. Subpar attempt at a boring standard Belgian.