6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 5.9%. Good citric and grassy hop aroma. Cloudy dark golden colour. Big stable creamy white head. The flavour is citric and yeasty. Grapefruity finish with notes of lemon peel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2022
at 14:42
9/10
Tried
on 21 Aug 2022
at 19:56
8/10
Tried
on 21 Aug 2022
at 19:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Donkergeel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is zoet en krachtig warm met iets van honing, vanille en wat banaan. Heel goed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2022
at 14:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A Belgian ale to enjoy in my Straffe Hendrik snifter this summer evening, I have a 33 cl bottle of Speciale Noel to sample. The pour is a liquid of copper-amber completed by a decent head of silvery tan foam. The smell is welcoming, there is yellow raisins, cereal and yeast. I take a drink and determine malt, slightly sweet plums, grain, candied fruit and straw. A dense sensation, I like that. A credible brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2022
at 01:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Blonde spiced with juniper berries from the Binchoise brewery, seemingly aimed at youngsters; longneck bottle from a pack of regional beers bought at Bois du Cazier near Charleroi. Initially towering high, very foamy, loudly fizzing, off-white, uneven-bubbled but loosely knit and quickly collapsing head, after all that noise leaving behind a medium-sized, irregular, open ring; misty pale yellow-golden robe with lots of refined sparkling, tunring cloudy and a bit deeper apricot-tinged in the end. Perfumey aroma of indeed dried juniper berries and quite dominantly so, soggy white bread, roses, lilacs and even jasmin blossoms, pine-scented air freshener, honey, pineapple, lavender, yuzu, earthy old potato note. Spritzy onset, overcarbonated even for this style, painfully numbing and distracting from the flavour; after a while, fruity notes of pineapple, sweet red apple and ripe apricot appear, sweet and soft, continuing over a sweetish brioche-bready and cereally maltiness; relatively thinnish body for the given ABV. The perfumey aspect of the juniper berries comes to full fruition even before the finish, in a weirdly lavender-like, resinous, ethereal way; the wryness this ingredient can bring, initially remains very limited. Instead a very 'rosy', herbal and flowery effect dominates retronasally, while a grassy hop bitter note develops and lots of minerality - coming from that overcarbonation - remain as one of the last impressions after swallowing, along with long-lingering juniper herbaceousness - and, at last, wryness. I have nothing against a subtle use of juniper berries in certain foods (like German Sauerkraut, for instance) but please keep them out of my beer: I had several juniper berry-flavoured spice ales before and liked literally none of them. This one, on top, has a rather feeble structure, overly sharp effervescence, too much residual sweetness and an exaggerated juniper effect to the point where the aroma becomes bizarrely perfumey - needless to say that this Bisous M'Chou is almost hilariously incapable of changing my mind about juniper berries in beer. My second overspiced Walloon ale tonight - I ingested enough spices and herbs for more than just a few days, I think...
Tried
on 08 May 2022
at 00:33
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Voilà un ours qui aime l'élégance. Déjà , sur le visuel, nous ne sommes pas déçus, avec une belle robe blonde limpide, une fine effervescence soutenue et une jolie mousse blanche de 5 mm. Le nez est subtil et élégant. Le miel n'est absolument pas grossier et vient délicatement relever l'ensemble avec d'ailleurs plus un air de chouchen que de miel brut. Céréales, camomille et un léger fruit viennent compléter la palette. En bouche, pareillement, c'est fin, mais pas insipide grâce à un alcool donnant juste ce qu'il faut de caractère tout en étant parfaitement intégré. Il faut d'ailleurs souligner l'équilibre de cette bière qui ne présente aucun défaut. Belle corpulence également avec une arrière bouche avec beaucoup de profondeur et de présence. Le final, lui est beaucoup plus en douceur, tel un voile. Un ours bien léché !!
Tried
on 02 May 2022
at 08:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Helder goudgeel bier met schuim. Smaak is fruitig zoet en licht kruidig met iets van vanille en peer. Fijn bier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2022
at 20:08
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Donkergeel troebel bier met schuim. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en fruitig met iets van citrus, wat abrikoos en appel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2022
at 14:16
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Troebel geel bier met schuim. Smaak is fris fruitig zoet en licht kruidig met iets van koriander, wat citrus en iets van kardamon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2022
at 14:51