Tasting notes of a very old bottle, best before 07 2006. Tasted May 2011.
Warm blond colour with a shy, disappearing white head. Aroma of madeira, raisins, dried and candied fruits. Flavour has the same key notes with rather nice caramel and malt tones. Sweetish, sticky mouthfeel and no detectable hops left, as could be expected. Nicely developed for a blond beer. This beer is definitely still pretty, even at high age - provided that you like this kind of madeira notes in old beer of course. (33 cL bottle @ Café Jos, Nijmegen)

Bouteille 33cl qui dès ouverture n’a pas voulu rester en bouteille. Une couleur dorée claire avec une mousse épaisse blanche. Arôme retient ces notes typiques belges sans que pour cela je détecte quelque chose qui m’indique une bonne bière spéciale de Noël. Cette dernière se caractérise plus par son haut volume d’alcool qui s’accompagne du sucre candi ainsi que un arôme léger de fleurs de houblons. En bouche, on note le malt pils, sucre candi et ce côté agréable de l’alcool qui donne à la bière un palais de fruits tropicaux. Une bière réchauffante de par ses 10% et dans la levure je prends en compte une fine couche d’épices.

Appearance: Golden orange. Very hazy. Fizzy. Lots and lots of white head. Longlasting. Aroma: Initially alcohol, less when warming up. Fruit, citric. Taste: Alcohol, too much of it. Also fruit and herbs. Info: 330ml bottle, 4/6-2010

Explodes from bottle. Cloudy dark blond colour. Thin soapy head. Fresh citrus aroma. Flavour is slightly sharp and has a hint of bitter orange. A little dry and peppery in the finish.

Bottle that I picked up at Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgium, 08-03-10 consumed 11-03-10 The look is a sort of orangey with some light sediment. In fact it reminds me a little of one of those David Attenborough nature programmes under the ocean with Krill or tiny jellyfish. That’s not to say this beer looks like soup it doesn’t at all, its just my vivid imagination running wild for a while. There is spice and yeast on an otherwise unmemorable nose. The taste is a tad too sweet, some spice again and a bit of oomph from the alcohol, but not that great if truth be known. A5 A3 F5 P3 Ov10 2.6

Imported from my RateBeer account as Caulier Bon Secours Blonde de Noël (by Caulier):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

33cl. Orange to dark yellowish colour. Very fine white regular head that sticks to the glas when drinking. Sweet-acidic scent. Quite acid start followed by an alcohol sweetness. A lot of bubbles on the tongue that keeps prickling in the aftertaste. Would be a very good aperitive beer!

bottle. I planned to crack this open next Christmas, but the bottle was sizzling in my cellar and foam was coming out of the swing top, so I feared there would be too much pressure in it. Precautionary I opened the bottle in the sink, which was a good idea. The beer pours (or rather explodes) a cloudy pale yellow colour with an enormous head. Malty nose with spicy hints. Full-bodied, malty with lots of spicy hops and lots of alcoholic flavours.

3rd July 2008. Cloudy dark amber beer. Unusual. Sweet with nice fruit tones. Dry sweet creamy malt finish. Very flavoursome and a little of the beaten track.

swingtop bottle, at the end of it’s shelf life. almost clear golden, small offwhite head. slight sour aroma, spicy, strong. flavor is spicy, fruity, boozy, citrussy, old beer. this bottle was best before about the same time that we sampled it, and it had distinct flavors due to old beer, so don’t keep it. better fresh.

From the other kp in GA. The pop on this bottle is ferocious. It pours with a vigorous head but it fades fast into just a decent head, just bubbly (not foamy). The color is a thick golden with some clarity. Aroma is weird, it’s a mix of beautiful floral yeasitness with a honey and spoiled milk/vomit... yeah like I said, weird. On the bright side it is a sweet, faintly chocolate, nice type of spoiled milk/vomit. Taste is lower on that weird aspect, just an ester and sweet brew. It seems there is a honey gone awry aspect here. Makes it a bit too sweet and a bit too, well, honey, espesically with all the esters. Its fine, yet over-the-top. A lightly thicker feel but enough carbonation to offset it. A long sweet, honey-ish, and cocoa aftertaste. Its rough around the edges, but for a light colored beer I feel this could age a little bit. There is a bit of alcohol heft to it. Later pours give it a much larger head and a thicker, dirtier color.
33cl, flip top bottle, dated BB D/2009, Bell’s tulip glass.