Judas

33cl bottle. Pale golden beer with good lacing and white head. Moderate lasting. Aroma is yeasty, sweet and slightly alcoholic. Flavour is bready, sweet at the beginning with a final slightly bittery. Also some fruit hints are present. Carbonation is low to medium. Texure is oily. Body is high.

(Bottle, Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm) Golden colour with frothy, off-white head. Sparkling carbonation. Fruity, malty nose with yeast, peaches and a slightly metallic malt profile. Malty, fruity taste with notes of dried pineapple, marmalade candy and a mild spicy bitterness. More than medium body, with lots of candy sweetness. A bit unsophisticated, but decent and quite drinkable.

Drank from a 500ml can bought in Brussel Central. Very sweet, with honey and alcohol. Not much hop character or complexity. Basically it’s a cheap-ass version of Duvel. Made for getting drunk quickly. Drinkable, but really not good.

Olive bottle, 33 cl, best before 23-10-08, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on August 28 2011; eye: peach, clear, no effervescence, tiny sheet of off-white head, light lacing; nose: Madeira, malt, yeast, light fruity, honey; mouth: Madeira, malt, slight yeast, caramel, honey, finale in Madeira, medium body, below-average carbonation, mildly sweet, sticky texture; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille olive, 33 cl, meilleure avant 23-10-08, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 28 août 2011; œil : pêche, limpide, pas d’effervescence, petite couverture de mousse blanc cassé, légère dentelle; nez : madère, malt, levure, léger fruité, miel; bouche : madère, malt, très léger levure, léger fruité, caramel, miel, finale en madère, corps moyen, carbonatation sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture collante; en résumé : ordinaire

Bottle at Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. Golden color. Decent smell, ok taste, firm carbo but it suits this beer.

33 cl bottle. Rated on 09.11.2008
Aroma has alcohol, sweet honey and some sweet malt too. Sweet flavour has lots of alcohol with honey and hints of spices. Don’t know about the bittersweet and delicious, my bottle was just full of alcohol.

One of the first beers i’ve tasted. I liked the smell and i loved the mouthfeel. Taste was a bit dissapointing.

33cl bottle. Golden yellow beer with a good head - the lace hangs around virtually for the whole beer. The nose has aromas of spices and flowers and a base note of hay. The taste confirms the spice and flowers and this combination gives a vanilla custard note in the middle section and confectionery just after. The palate is hefty, there is a creamy if perhaps clumsy texture and there is a fairly clean finish. Overall a good version of a blonde tripel.

bottle@home: medium bodied, upfront spices, lemon peel, grainy, yeast, a bit too lingering, naughty bitter aftertaste, straightforward, overall a lesser Duvel knock-off with slightly different yeast

Imported from my RateBeer account as Judas (by Brouwerijen Alken-Maes (Heineken)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

15/02/2011 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 17/06/10 (2011-56)

Clear golden coloured beer, white irregular yet dense creamy head, adhesive and stable. Aroma: yeast, overripe fruits, spices. MF: little carbon (possibly due to the age), medium to full body. Taste: malts, little alcohol sweet, honey, hops, fruity. Aftertaste: little citrus, sweet malts and alcohol, some hops.