8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle, 2024 vintage. Bready malt aroma with notes of dark fruit, banana, clove, grassy hops, spicy Belgian yeast and cereal malt. Pours cloudy amber colored with a thin off white head that has little retention and some lacing. Starts with bready malt, dark fruit, clove and cereal malt flavors. Finishes smooth and a touch dry with banana, spicy Belgian yeast and grassy hop flavors. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Coaltrain Wine and Liquor
on 01 Mar 2026
at 00:03
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2026
at 10:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle. Pours a bright amber with moderate head. Aromas of fruity Belgian yeast, dried stoned fruit, and toasted malts. Flavors follow same with andditional coriander and some phenolics; plus more grainy malts. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Greenrock Liquor Store
on 18 Feb 2026
at 00:54
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Feb 2026
at 06:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy pale golden with a medium white head. Aroma is plenty of spicy Belgian yeast, a touch of liquorice, fennel, and dry bready malt. Flavour is full of spicy Belgian yeast, fennel, some black liquorice, and dry bready malt. Nice spicy expression as expected, finishing dry and spicy. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Legacy Liquor Store
on 12 Feb 2026
at 07:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pouring from a 37.5 cl bottle to a Chimay glass. I see a dark caramel body along with a thin ring of taupe foam. The hoped-for carbonation is there. I lift for a smell and get dried fruit, grain, wood and yeast. The taste is subdued, there is dried dark fruit, malt, wheat bread, a hint of red cherries, and an indication of the barrel. Good but not great. I may have waited too long to open this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2026
at 22:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
375ml bottle, corked with a wire cage. Beer gift from Frau Eva. Shared at a rating session with Finn and Leif. A deep copper coloured body, off-white head leaving crocheted lacing on the glass. Attractive aromas of rum and mid-sweet brown malts. Rather intense taste of rum, oak and caramel malts added by a subdued yeasty bite. Long-lived finish, mid-dry, and warming. Solid sipper qualities.(Tromsø, 04.02.2026).
Tried
from Bottle
from
Vinmonopolet Tromsø, Langnes
on 04 Feb 2026
at 19:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Spandert av Rune. Delt med ham & LeifLong i WC-veien.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2026
at 18:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2025 version, Bruxelles café Lausanne with Raoul, a good classic on the Belgian way, boozy, medium body, malty, smooth with a right touch of plum, yeasty and bitter, well balanced, never boring with this one.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Bruxelles Café
on 22 Jan 2026
at 09:22
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Liquor Mountain. Pours a glowing deep orange-gold with a tall, thick head. Fruity, spicy aroma, citrus, apricot and nectarine, honey, coriander, cloves, esters. Great. Sweet, rich flavor with stewed apricots, clove, grapefruit and orange, honey biscuits. Lovely stuff. Quite starkly bitter finish to balance it all. Full body but not cloying or lagging on the tongue.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2026
at 11:38