33 cl bottle @ hotel room, Brussels. Rated on 21.07.2010
Aroma is sweet with malty notes, some chocolate and ripe fruits. Flavour is somewhat sweet with malty notes, semi‐dark chocolate, some coffee notes, brown sugar and raisins. Turns a bit sour after warming up in a glass. Decent.

Bottle @ home. Brown, dark colour with a head that doesn’t last (like when you pour a glass of cola). Smells wine, wood, sweet, some alcohol, a bit sharp. Tastes wood, raisins, red fruits, a bit wine-like, some alcohol, malts. The beer feels kinda heavy and alcoholic, with a full body and slightly fizzy carbo. One to drink slowly.

aroma van mocca, anijs, parfum, vrij sterke geur bruin bier, met fijne bruine schuimkraag. smaak van drop, candij, vrij sterke smaak. verder licht zoet, - bitter. afdronk, stevige smaak die overgaat in bitterheid, maar niet vervelend.

Bottle at Brussels Beer Festival. Pours cloudy brown with a tan head. Aroma of raisins, dark fruits and licorice. Flavour is medium to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter. Full bodied with soft carbonation.

Tall necked brown flip-top bottle: 33cl. Poured into a Hoegaarden Grand Cru badged stemmed tulip two years before it’s best before date of July 2013. All this breweries beers seem to explode out the bottle, this one was no exception. This time I was ready for it and didn’t lose a drop, the sediment however comes up with the rest of the brew, so you get everything in the glass. Dark rustic brown body, too deep in colour to see through (plus the sediment is in there somewhere. Huge light brown head on top, which left plenty of lacing as the beer level sank during the tasting. Aroma of burnt, roasted and toasted malts, without the sweet molasses smell often found in Belgian brown ales. This isn’t a sweet brown in any way, those malts in the smell hit you hard in the taste and a tart bitterness comes along as the mouth dries: this is more complexed than your average Belgian brown. The alcohol content can be found easily enough, as the body isn’t as rich and deep as the brew indicates by looks. Still fine, but this isn’t a thick, heavy brew at all, it isn’t watery either. I enjoyed it.

Bottle at Dolphins Umeda. Dark, dark brown, flat color, as opposed to glossy. Nice head. Slightly roasty nose of chocolate or cocoa, dried fruit, peaches. Flavor of fudge, cocoa, raisins, licorice, a bit of coffee and fresh fruit. Slightly oxidized with a slightly funky earthiness. SMooth and full with fine carbonations. Finishes dry and earthy. Interesting and nice.

Bottle. Medium brown color, thick beige head, solid lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate, caramel, butternut. Taste is chocolate covered caramel bon-bons. Nice.

33cl bottle with mechanic cap. Dark brown colour with a frothy tan head. Moderate lasting and perfect lacework. Aroma is yeasty, nutty and slightly caramel. Flavour has brown sugar traces, with dark fruits, caramel, bready on palate and a final slightly sweet. Carbonation is soft to medium. Body is medium to high. Texture is oily.