Very good looking brew from the 16 oz can, almost brown red maroon. Looks kind of red in sunlight. Rocky head. Smells a little bready. Syruppy initial palate. Oily higher alky bommish thing. Fer sure you can tell this is greater than 8%, no hiding of alky here. Not the most enjoyable beer but it sure looks good in the glass! I get a kick out of the descriptions of some beers; "absolutely delicious, and entirely too drinkable for a beer that’s 8.5% ABV"? haha balderdash - I bet they used the bestess recipe in the world too. Once inside the beer has some odd complexities, rotten fruit and an off woddent thing. Mildly cloying sweet syrup mouth coating oily. Finish is somewhat difficult medicine. I tell you, I have tasted some refine real belgian beers but these belgian style american wanna bees is all they will ever be; wannahbeez. The real belgians know how to make civilized beldgiez. This is not, not impressed with the american attitude of this beer. However, it looks good till the end with its rocky head and dissapearing lacing. Wew, way too much for this lager lover.