Bottle: Poured a dark brown/black color with thick cream head. Spicy sweet aroma. The flavor is dark roasted malt that finishes spicy. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière des Fêtes on 17 Mar 2010 at 14:07 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Bottle ZBF: Poured a light brown with off white head. Aroma is sweet and spicy. Taste is dark fruit, sweet malt, and ginger.

Draught Fully hazy brown-orange beer with a small beige head. Extremely spicey nose, pine and cypress needles, cloves, cumin (a lot!), maybe lavender. Again spicey flavours, cumin, cinnamon, green cardemom, cloves. Sweet, touch of alcohol. Very full bodied, oily, pappery even. A bit heavy on the spices, no? Still, not an uninteresting beer. It’s for supping with the turkey, and getting stuffed in full. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière des Fêtes on 07 Mar 2005 at 00:54 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Nearly black brown; small yellowish head. Spicey - as tandoori herbs, or the coriander-mint-yoghurt sauce coming with the poppadums. Further some dark malts, but restrained. I know there’s thyme in it - and one can taste it: it gives the taste of a spiced roastbeef crust and gravy, in an (again) Indian tandoori way. Well bodied, nearly chewy. Amazing how this thymol can give (in combination with the beer) a multitude of flavours. This is a very nice beer, actually.

Very pale gold, well-carbonated beer; irregular head, white. Coriander, coriander, coriander. And just a dash of lemon. Citrus& coriander, both restrained, which makes it palatable. A bit creamy MF, slightly spritzy, but not thirst-quenching enough by any standard. Another one. Why, oh, why?

Darker gold beer, end of bottle fully hazy; good white, fine & dense head. Citrussy, slightly perfumey nose, grapefruitpeel, but hot hoppy. Alcohol obvious, even in the nose. Oxydated malts, biscuit, even slightly infected (?). Malty, grains - and not much else, except alcohol. Sweetish, but restrained. Medium bodied, very slick, nearly oily. Oh well...

Bottle: Poured dark brown/black with thin off white head. Sour metal and spice aroma. The flavor was roasted burnt malt.

Bottle: Poured orange amber color with white bubbles. The aroma was metal and yeast. Had a slight sweet malt flavor, not overly impressive.

Bottle: Poured a hazy brown in color with foamy white head. The smell was of spices and sweet hops. The flavor was roasted malt blend and a dry hoppy zing.

La Saint-Hubert Cuvee du Borq, ABV 6%. Bottle: Poured a cloudy/hazy orange amber with a ton of carbonation that caused a fast acting thick cream head (although it subsided fast). The aroma was hoppy and fruit. The taste was sweet malt at first but finished bitter hoppy spice.

Bottle @ Kerstbierfestival 2006 in Essen, BE. Hazy red borwn color with a good off-white head. Aroma is thyme, herbs. Flavor is heavy sweet with a average duration. Aroma / flavor and sweet / bitternes is very nice balancede, a very special with the herb / thyme in the bier. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière des Fêtes on 01 Apr 2008 at 01:58 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Bottle @ Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, toasted, roasted, anis seed - spicy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (010308)

Draught @ Kerstbierfestival 2006 in Essen, BE. Dark amber brown color with a good off-white head. Aroma off coriander, licorice, yeast and small nots of sulfur. The flavor was very acidic with a sour finish. Ends very bitter and sweet.