Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750ml bottle-thanks to jtclockwork for sharing–pours a white ring for a head and cloudy gold color. Aroma is bready-light malt, medium fruit-pear. Taste is bready-lgiht malt, yeast, medium fruit-pear/lemon, perfumy. Don’t drink at cellar temp…drink cold!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared with jcwattsrugger. Pours cloudy gold. White head. Nose of yeast, orange peel, alcohol and bready malts. Taste is the same. Grainy texture. Alcohol in finish. Some undescribable "off notes." Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Small, dense rim over fully hazy orange-yellow beer. Nose has 2 distinct features: one fresh, herbal, and another that is more like something rotting, sulphury and solvent-filled. Not what one is entitled to expect. Bitterish, chicory-like flavour; vegetable bitter, and sweetless caramel. Lots of yeastproducts, tasting unfinished. Moreover, one suspects the spices to be needed to cover off-flavours. Fresh, spritzy MF. Alcoholwarming backthroat. The first Brootcoorens brews made me sit up and pay attention. Since then, however, they’ve gone down the slope, and I see little hope on improvement, alas.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Almost no head; orange-yellow beer with a fiant haze. Fresh-smelling, garden herbs, pale malts, and white candi sugar. Yeast notes. Light bitterish main flavour, very much characterized by the mineral water quality of this pretty light beer. Very faint citrus, and maybe again a hint at some of those garden herbs. Very light palate indeed. Why the Eye-talian, only Brootcoorens knows. To me, it is as if they tried to make a British bitter. BUT THOSE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED FLAVOUR, as by serious hops, etc.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Gushing to medium white head; fed by lively carbonated golden beer. Citrussy, spicy (with nutmeg, pepper, coriander), mannah, dough. Coriander seems more obvious in the taste, still peppery; some roasted notes despite the pale colour; Brazil nuts, but without their buttery component. Spritzy, lively mouthfeel, making the beer easy and attractive to drink despite the 7% ABV. Decent, if not exactly spectacular mid-strength beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled. An unclear golden beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt, Belgian yeast, and fruit. The flavor is sweet with notes of fruit and yeast, leading to a dry yeasty finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Light gushing to fluffy whipped eggwhite-like head; fully hazy orange beer with mossy sheen. Dried apples, garden herbs, alternative vegetarian spice mix. Solvent, plywood, herbs, mild-sweet but with a dry bitterish-spicy sourrrounding. Bit dull, dough-like, and slighly oxydized malts getting more obvious warming up. Medium bodied at best, bit burning MF. Aftertaste, after some time, like old mushrooms. Well... Seesm bottle has suffered somehow - or is it the beer?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Clear amber with a medium off white head. Sweet malty aroma with caramel and fruity notes. Sweet flavour wit roasted malt, caramel and overripe fruits. Finished sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brootcoorens Angélus Spéciale Noël 7% (by Brasserie Brootcoorens Erquelinnes):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 6/20, MyTotalScore: 2.1/5
75cl bottle A little cloudy light yellowish beer, thin white head. Quite watery in taste, very light. One of the worst christmas beers I've had this year.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
22nd August 2008. Cloudy orange beer. Quite frothy but low on carbonation ! Soft with a semi dry finish. A little wheaty malt and that’s about it! Not much going on here. Dull!