Bottled. Reddish amber colour with mediumsized beige head, leaves nice lace. Aroma is wooden, parfume, slight tobacco and some quite sweet notes also. Flavour is sweet malts, breadyness, fruit and some yeast. Alcohol gives a nice burn in the throat.

(33cl bottle, courtesy of DerDoppelbock) Cloudy, light brown coloured hue with loads of particles and a medium-sized foamy white head. Yeasty and sweet dark malty nose with a moderate fruity touch (apples, pears) and strong spicy notes. Sweet flavour, quite slim bodied according to its abv, fairly soft on carbon. Slightly toasted malty and fruity taste; yeasty, sweet and slightly bitter finish with quite rounded not too strong spicy notes. Definitely not the one I was waiting for.

Bottle. Cloudy amber color with a small fizzy fair lacing mostly diminshing off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, some alcohol. Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic, light bitter with a average to short duration. body is light to medium. texture is watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic.

11.12oz bottle, Grain d’orge version, best before Jul-Aug 2006, drunk on 2/26/07
Deep caramel-amber body has a strong maroon tint to it and a dark beige head that is initially very large (the bottle also exploded when I opened it), though it recedes to cover. But the retention is strong from there, and there is moderate lacing in patches. Couldnt really leave the sediment behind, since the bottle blew up, but the liquid was still clear, but had particles in suspension. However, they dropped to the bottom of the glass pretty quickly, and there was still plenty of sediment on the bottom of the bottle.
Figgy-prune-like aroma, with medium-dry toffee and very chewy, adjunct sugar notes (must be the pear syrup). Lots of caramel stickiness as well, with a profound nuttiness and strangely, some dry, acidic notes on the very end. The aroma, unlike the flavor, seems to be mostly free of alcohol apparency, but there is still a bit of sharpness on the finish. Medium strength of aroma, the fig/raisin/toffee notes being the most interesting, though I would hardly say it’s that complex or unique.
Surprisingly as well, the beer wasnt infected despite still gushing violently. Instead, more sherry, caramel, fig and prune notes are at the front of the flavor, with strong residual sugar comfort. Some light "pear" notes emerge, though I dont think I would call it that, had I drunk this blindly. More just a vague fruity syrupiness. Despite all of the sweet notes, the texture is still a bit thin/loose at times, with the carbonation not being overly tight for a bottle-conditioned beer. Some slickness, some syrupiness and some wateriness all show up at different times. My biggest issue with the flavor, however, was a very strong raw alcohol flavor that strips the malt sweetness from the finish, leaving dry, burning, alcohol and light phenols as well. It seemed to actually lighten with breathing, but never fully passed. Very strange beer. I enjoyed the malts at the start, but the beer dosent really go anywhere from there. Tighter carbonation and less adjunct fermentation would strengthen the body/texture and reduce the fusel alcohols. Even after all of that, I still strangely enjoyed it.

Bottle: Poured a dark brown with thin white head. The aroma was leafy and fruit. The taste was burnt and smokey with a dry finish.

Bottle. Pours a hazy brown colour with a long lasting off-white head. Sweet malty aroma with hints of yeast and spices. Fruity dusty flavor with hints of yeast and caramel. Sweet malty aftertaste with some hints of alcohol.

A hazy amber beer with a lazing orange head. The aroma is slightly acidic malty combined with notes of yeast. The flavor is sweet dusty and malty, but also with notes of fruit juice and yeast.

(Bottle 33 cl) This aged sample - best before end 2004 - is the original version from Vervifontaine. Dark amber with a neat and rather stable, off-white head. Fruity, sweetish nose with some alcohol. Good, full body with a caramelish sweetness. Quite interesting. 160206

Bottled (BB 05/2006)
Hazy dark nut borwn, tanned small head. Aroma has plums, pear and green grapefruit. Very carbonated, medium-bodied. Hides alcohol very well. Sweetish, molasses. Pear syrup is well present there. Enjoyable dessert drink, but a bit too carbonated. Lots of floating yeast, maybe needs some ageing.

Malty aroma, hint of puke. Dark brown colour, small white head. Malty, but thin-bodied.