Bottle from Damián Beer and ale Funny fellow where you don't really feel the alcohol. Has strong fruity character together with grapes. Now when I read the style it makes sense that I felt like I am drinking some prosecco.

Bottle at the brewery after a day of tasting cask beers intended for creating new blends. Cheers to Glenn, the brewer! Strong gusher, foam spouting out of the bottle for a long time after opening; resulted in a very thick, very rocky and pillowy, egg-white, dense head, sitting atop a hazy orangey amberish coloured beer, with fierce champagne-like sparkling throughout. Aroma of melon, strawberry, sweet white wine, soap, overripe nectarines, baker’s yeast, caramel, cognac, bread crust, orange liqueur, honey. Very sweet, peachy and strawberry flavours with light banana interwoven, sourish gooseberry-ish undertone, lots of residual sugars with honeyish effect over a bready, caramelly malt backbone; fizzy carbo (unsurprisingly seen the gushing and fierce visible sparkling), thick mouthfeel made thicker by the sugariness. Lots of yeastiness accentuating the breadiness, spicy phenolic accents, earthy hop bitter accent in the finish with a lot of warming, brandy- and even liqueur-like alcohol. Sweetness sticks a bit in the end. Something must have gone wrong with refermentation here, but still enjoyable as a strong, sweet sipper in a kind of tripel-ish ’Belgian barleywine style’ (think Stille Nacht and the like).

Draught @ Stadin Panimobaari, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, rakennus 6, Helsinki, Finland 00540. [ As Alvinne Pays d’Erpigny ].Unclear - hazy matt medium orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, cookie, caramel, moderate yeasty, dried fruit, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light bitter with a long duration, bread, cookie, sweet malt ,sweet yeast, spicy, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20160706] 6-3-6-3-13

hazy dark orange to amber colour, huge, creamy yellowish head; aroma of peach, floral and earthy and wine notes, as well as Belgian yeast; taste is the same with syrupy notes and intensive alcoholic spiciness; good one

Bottle (from etre gourmet). Pours dark golden. Aroma is sweet, fruits, booze, sugar. Flavor is sweet and bitter, fruits, mango, sugar, booze. Finish is sweet and dry bitter. Doesn’t really cover the booze. Overall: okish.

Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie consumed at home, Friday 6th January 2017 i Pours mid to dark brown, a touch puddly like in appearance what head there may of been was soon consumed by the murky body. This is the best that I have had from Alvinne for some time, it’s a big solid beast of a beer, very Barley Wine like to me as opposed to a Belgian Strong Ale. Big chewy malty beer, lots of oomph from alcohol, fruity, some toffee, sweet, good beer. A6 A3 T8 P4 Ov14 3.5

Bottle. Amber color, average white foam. Aroma: wildly, yeast, apple seed, fruity esters, alcohol, plum wine. Taste: strong alcohol, apple seed, Madeira, yeast, hop and alcohol bitterness, very warming.

Bottle. Pours clear, dark amber. Good White head. Smell is bit sweet. Taste is sweet, strong Sharp grainy notes. Bit metallic, some alcohol, but nowhere near 12 pct. Kinda weak overall, so the actual tateprofile isn’t really that interesting, and the alcohol ( even not overly intense ) gets a free play to dominante the ( weak) taste. Alvinne makes some of the best sours on the market, and I think that that’s just their thing. This isn’t all to great, on the other hand...

Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’s place. Thanks Yoav. Cloudy orange (with actual clouds). Aroma of fruity esters, yeast, and a bit of alcohol. Sweet flavor, boozy, with fruity esters, honey. Medium-bodied. Too boozy.

Draught@Stadin Panimobaari, Helsinki. Hazy orange colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, grassy, some mild yeasty and herbal notes. Flavour is fruity, alcohol, some toffee and mild yeasty notes. A bit on the boozy side, but otherwise ok.