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75 cL bottle, Kerstbierfestival 2007 in Essen/Belgium. Pours deep amber to brown with a dense light orange/brown head. Dried fruity aroma. Flavour is mild yeasty spiced, very mild smoked note on top of the malt. Finish is softly spiced with a lingering spice note.

Bottled@Kerstbierfestival 2007, Essen. Brownish amber colour with small head. Aroma is spices, caramel, bluecheese and some herbs. Flavour is spices, caramel and wood in a nice mix.

[i] Bottle at Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant, Gent, 07-12-07 [/i] Loz was unimpressed with this beer so passed a three quarter glass over to me in exchange for my one quarter of Klokke Roeland (think I did well there) Molasses or burnt sugar, honey and thyme on the nose of this muddy dark brown beer. The honey and thyme dominate the taste but like Loz I was not overly impressed.

(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of madsberg. Hazy, orangey brown with a beige head. Distinct aroma of ginger - or is it rather the thyme? Medium body with sweetish, roasted malt, very spicy - ginger again - while the finish is dry. 270607

Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet and very spicy especially ginger and cinnamon. The flavor is very sweet with notes of malt, caramel, bread, and spices, ginger being most dominant, leading to a dry spicy end. Thanks MadsBerg for sharing.

Bottle: Poured a dark brown/black color with thick cream head. Spicy sweet aroma. The flavor is dark roasted malt that finishes spicy. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière des Fêtes on 17 Mar 2010 at 14:07 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Bottle ZBF: Poured a light brown with off white head. Aroma is sweet and spicy. Taste is dark fruit, sweet malt, and ginger.

Draught Fully hazy brown-orange beer with a small beige head. Extremely spicey nose, pine and cypress needles, cloves, cumin (a lot!), maybe lavender. Again spicey flavours, cumin, cinnamon, green cardemom, cloves. Sweet, touch of alcohol. Very full bodied, oily, pappery even. A bit heavy on the spices, no? Still, not an uninteresting beer. It’s for supping with the turkey, and getting stuffed in full. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière des Fêtes on 07 Mar 2005 at 00:54 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Nearly black brown; small yellowish head. Spicey - as tandoori herbs, or the coriander-mint-yoghurt sauce coming with the poppadums. Further some dark malts, but restrained. I know there’s thyme in it - and one can taste it: it gives the taste of a spiced roastbeef crust and gravy, in an (again) Indian tandoori way. Well bodied, nearly chewy. Amazing how this thymol can give (in combination with the beer) a multitude of flavours. This is a very nice beer, actually.

Bottle @ Kerstbierfestival 2006 in Essen, BE. Hazy red borwn color with a good off-white head. Aroma is thyme, herbs. Flavor is heavy sweet with a average duration. Aroma / flavor and sweet / bitternes is very nice balancede, a very special with the herb / thyme in the bier. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière des Fêtes on 01 Apr 2008 at 01:58 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Bottle @ Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, toasted, roasted, anis seed - spicy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (010308)

Draught. Weak, malty roasted aroma. Almost black colour, small creamy light brown head. Thin body. Liquorice flavour at several levels. A bit sweet.