Amber with off white head - Sweet wood aroma - Sweet malt and sweet wood body - The sweetness goes into a long lasting finish with some warmth from alcohol - This was good

Another one in this interesting series of oak-aged trappists. Thin, loose, lightly lacing but quickly dissolving, pale beige head, colour a cloudy bronze with purplish hue and lots of dark debris near the bottom. Pleasant and perfumey aroma of marzipan, tawny port and red wine, milk chocolate, lots of vanilla-like tannins, kahlua, candi syrup, toasted wood, blue grapes, earth, sherry, figs, banana, dried cake, brown rhum, hints of varnish and fresh paint. Sweet and fruity onset, candi sugar, banana, pear and brambleberries, finely tingling carbo, basic sourish accent for balance, smooth and full mouthfeel, lovely maltiness, caramelly and subtly chocolatey, bit toasted too, candi sugary sweetness running through it all but not becoming too cloying, drying finish with lots of woody tannins, herbal hop bitterness for balance, lingering yeast ’powderiness’ and, unsurprisingly, booze, in the form of a warming, perhaps here and there a bit burning, rhum- and brandy-like alcohol. Like the other ones, recommended if you’re in big, sweet, rich trappists / quadrupels; seems a tad sweeter than the previous one I had, but comparing them only makes sense if you have the different editions next to each other. Enjoyed by itself, this is a big, warming, satisfying sipper.

37.5 cL bottle. Pours cloudy dark orange with a fully gone head. Aroma is roasted malty and light breadish. Roasted malty and caramelish. fruity, wooden and slight wineous. Light malty and caramelish. Smooth roasted malty finish.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy woody caramel and dark fruit aroma. Sweetish malty spicy woody caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy woody caramel finish.

Fast gone off-white head over fully hazy dark brown beer. Cheesy, blue cheese, Tilsit, Roquefort,...; alcohol, vanilla. Sweet-fusels-alcoholic-vanilla. Milkchocolate. Finish is dry-woody, wry even. Well-bodied, quite slick,dry to wry woodiness seems to diminish the body. Good, if somewhat severe tastign BW.

Bottle at home, ruby red beer with a small head, aroma is brandy, oak, fruit, taste is brandy, fruit, alcohol. Alcohol taste is warming, very very nice one again.

7th February 2015
Very hazy amber beer, tidy cream colour head. Smooth and slightly soft palate, semi dry with modest fine carbonation. Sweet dry vanilla streaked creamy malts. Bubblegum and banana esters. Mild spice. Touches of sweet wine and mellow brandy. Finishes smooth and semi dry and mildly bitter. A beer of some subtleties, goes down easy for it’s abv.

Bottled:
Murky red/amber colour. Dense head.
Sweet and malty aroma with hints of marzipan and alcohol.
Sweet and makty taste with hints of toffee and marshmallows leading to a bitter and somewhat boozy finish.