A dark orange beer with a huge though collapsing off-white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol as well as hints of caramel. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of alcohol which gives it notes of metal. The alcohol runs warming over the tongue, but is too much for me. The flavor also contains notes of caramel. The finish is warm and quite dry - as if the alcohol suck the water out of the mouth.

Bottled, alc. 8,8 % (BB 05/2005)
Ruby brown color, nice brownish head. and lots of lace. Fruity aroma with raisins and plums, even a bit roasted. Starts with attacking hops then full to medium body gives plum sweetness. Then finishes with alcoholic kick. Aftertaste is warming and slightly bittersweet. Interesting and complex but a bit unbalanced.

Bottle. Malty aroma. Dark reddish brown colour. Very nice, stable head. Peppery liquorice flavour. Quite sweet. Not unlike a strong, sweet porter.

2004-10-31, 7-4-8-4-14=37
Dark amber color. A warm and malty beer, quite sweet, dominated by the caramel and with some spices; similar to the Highland Scotch, well brewed.
I would like to try them together…

2005-04-24, 6-4-7-3-13=33
Drinkable beer, with a lot of caramel, sweetness, fudge...

My can says 8.4% ABV, rather than 8% Burnished copper colour; thin amberish tinted head. Crude alcoholic, sweet-liqueurish nose. Soap - and artichoke (?) and almonds aromas. Sweet & alcoholic taste, palate filling it with a faint but clear almond flavour - always a bad sign in my book. There are quite some indifferent malts, adjunct-like. Extremely thin MF for an 8+ ABV beer. Yet there’s some syrupy texture for some seconds. Aftertaste is metallic. Barely worth the can.Earlier Rating: 6/1/2003 Total Score: 3.2Thick white-brownish head. Red-amber beer. Nose of banana's, peaches, a bit of alcohol & caramel malt. Bitter taste, bananas, very bubble-gummy, sweet underbuild. Good carbonation, bitterness is very much in the palate, but the sweetness is there all the way till the end. Alcohol present but well-hidden by all the sweetness. Powerful, but unrefined. I wonder if there's much difference with the 'ordinary' Red Gordon. No competition for the origan Scotch and X-mas.

White head, very fast gone, leaving some unsure lace; darker golden beer, clear. Nose: caramel, burnt, sweet, marzipan. Horrible alcoholic, burnt/roasted taste, with a bitterish cyanide (=bitter almonds) edge, characteristic for cheap liquor. It dulls after some time, getting nearly cloying sweet, but the least one can say is that this is the opposite of refinement. Alcohol, alcoholburn, medium bodied, aggressive. God knows what continental lager louts were aimed at with this... beverage.

Herbal nose, some paper. Golden, creamy head. Grassy hops, papery malt. Fine lawnmover beer.

Dark orange-gold; huge yellowish tinted head, fluffy and fast dwindling. Roasted, and toasted, nose, candi sugar, caramel and alcohol. Again roasted taste, malty, both sweet and caramelised, and loads of alcohol - definitely part of the taste in this one. Butter toffees, bit grass, cheap liqueur as supermarket Pineau des Charentes . Slick mouthfeel, alcohol obvious without real -burn, which is remarkable for such strenght. Some time ago, I wondered about "Het Kanon" being called ’Malt liquor’. This is more one, albeit top-fermenting. Out of a can, to top it.