Inexpensive can from Chalet. I'm diggin that viking wearing a christmas cap with a pompom on the end. Pour is really appealing; very dark clear brown with some orange tinged light peaking thru.The head is also fabulous, it pours a creamy tan and goes choco moose craggy, and lasts thru the whole session! Malty nose with very little if any detectable holiday spice. First big swig is better than expected. For a holiday brew with some spruce spices added, the spice aspect of this brew is well muted, and I like that. Yes, quite a refreshing departure from those terribly in yer face domestic holiday/winter spice bombs we get here in the states. In the middle, maybe I'm getting a little smoke in there, but this is well behaved as well. Yes, pleasant surprise for a winter brew. Very good co2 level for this style of brew as well. But wait! Its styled as a belgie strong ale, not a spiced brew. As a Belgian strong, it has a quite a ways to go to get up to the same level of Draai Laag Ragnarok or Sierra Nevada Ovila Golden. In the end I'm left wondering if the 8% is really true, considering how well this brew's malty romance hides the alky content. Not bad overall, well balanced.

Purchased at Amstein, best before 07/25, serving this bottle for the St-Valentin day, at home, Epalinges. Classical and generous winter ale, bready, malty, spicy note, cynamon, sweet, note of bitterness, a bit syrupy, medium body.

Pours clear dark amber with a beige head. Aroma of malt with a touch of smoke. Taste is malt, molasses, stone fruits, bit of smoke and spruce. Good.

Pour is a dark amber with a large tan head. Aroma is sweet molasses and a little smoke. Flavor is brown sugar and molasses. Some dark fruit show up with some spruce follow up. I agree with the Belgian dark listening here. Very much like a Dubbel with dark sugar covered fruit and a heavy rich malt.

Bottle. Amber, brown, dark gold in color. Aroma is roasted grains and spruce. Taste is spruce and roasted grains. Really tasty.

Bottle from Hopt. Aroma is spicy with lots of spruce, sweet brown malt, christmas spices, cloying molasses, caramel, toffee, sugar, notes of liquorice. Flavour is quite sweet, cloying, light to moderate bitter. Body is above medium. Hmmm I like the use of spruce but the winter spices combined with cloying molasses is too much.

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