7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

I was fortunate to get a 16 oz can from Half Time earlier this year. Generally I have liked the Une Annee Belgian-style beers I've tried, so let's check this one out. Cooled off, not cold, I tilt the can into my Chimay glass to see an amber-caramel brown body and a rather spare ring of tan-silver foam. The smell is unequivocally cherry, I cannot smell anything else. With a sip I can tell that the concentration of cherries is diminished somewhat, there is also bread, cane sugar and a firm malt backbone working through. But still plenty of cherry flavor. Not a beer I would seek out again but, hey, it is a quadrupel and I have plenty of appreciation in that.

8

Much better than the regular version.