Festina Lente
Brouwerij Alvinne in Moen, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.45
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Festina Lente is a dark beer, with a firm, creamy head, non-filtered and non-pasteurized, bottle-conditioned. A subtle mix of herbs and spices was added, resulting in an inimitable aroma and flavourprofile. 16.2° Plato. Ingredients: Water, Pilsener malt, malted wheat, special malts, Pilgrim and EK Goldings, spices, yeast.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of joergen/MiP/yespr. Slightly hazy reddish brown with a rough beige head. Spicy, woody nose. Medium body, roasted malty with dry woody accents and a light underlying acidity. Dry, bitter finish. 200309
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2009
at 04:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle bought at the brewery shop during the pre-Zythos event. Thanks to thewolf, Rene, as I wouldn’t have bought a bottle unless he’d asked for one in a trade. Black as far as I can work out or very dark brown, thin beige head. Mixed dried spices hit the aroma first off. Yes there are some smooth dark fruits in the body and some juiciness. The spice reappears on the finish. Bit of cinnamon and nutmeg. The spice isn’t too dominant and there is room for some good jammy blackcurrant and blackberry in there. Even cranberries. Only a touch of sourness, but it is there on the sides of the tongue and builds in the finish. I don’t normally like spiced beers, but this one has balance and the juicy fruits are really likeable. Yep, a good beer. The sour dryness on the finish stops it getting out of hand. Decent stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2009
at 16:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Alvinne pre-ZBF09. Citric aroma, dark malt notes, some raisin, smells oaked on wine barrels. Very dark clear brown colour, red shine. Small stable tan head. The flavour is mildly roasted, some fruit. Citric fruit notes, dried than the aroma. A little weak in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2009
at 15:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cL bottle. Pours dark and hazy brown with a dense light tan head. Mild dry and yeasty, slight spiced aroma. Mild spiced and yeasty flavoured with a light roasted caramel malt base. Mild citric, acidic and vague bitter flavoured into the finish. Nice and easy to go beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2009
at 04:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Medium cream to beige head, fast gone, over hazy cola-coloured beer. End of bottle near-solid yeast. Very nice, fresh-smelling herbs/spices mix. I seem to get lavender, rosemary, cypresss and a touch of cinnamon - juniper too, maybe? Intriguing! Further gingerbread with a well-baked crust. Spicy taste, with light, but distinct sourish lining. Dark malts, and I can guess the wheat. Again rosemary, juniper - and laurel allez . Rosehips too - and sparadrap . Hmpff -- wanna know. Very slick, medium to well-bodied, quite spritzy. Nice one guys! Tell us more. Actually, IMHO this would do very well as a Christmas ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2008
at 18:01