Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[Bottled] Hazy golden. Subdued estery fruit and ash aroma. Sweetish with rounded mouthfeel. Notes of candi sugar and winegum. Salty finish. A delightful, individualistic beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled. Hazy orange colour with mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruity and wheaty with some sweet malty hints. Flavour is yeasty, malty with some grassy and dry hayish notes. Also a lot of nuts in finish. Wellbalanced and nice, and does hide the ABV well, though it’s noteable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottled. Hazy amber colour with big fluffy off-white head. Aroma is barnyard, a bit yeast and dry fruits. Flavour is barnyard, yeast dry fruits and raisins. A bit watery palate though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, mediumsized white foamy head. Aroma is sweaty socks mixed with flowers and some fruit. Flavour is hops, some barnyardish hints and becomes sweet lemony in finish (almost like 7up’ish or something close).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Good, very fine, light-yellowish head over golden beer with an orange shine. End of bottle nearly solid. Very perfumed, grassy, green and dried wild herbs, springflowers’ nose. Some pale malts and just a pinch of caramalt. Appetising and fine. And then, there we go again; a wry-bitterish herb that ought not to be there, determining most of the (initial) taste. But, maybe thanks to the absence of roasted malts, it diminishes in intensity after the first shock. Remains a pale malts beer, very dry with no discernible restsugars, hayish, but always the taint of... horseradish? mustardseedpowder? Light to medium bodied, but not empty. Refreshing and relieving the unhoppy bitterness. Way better than the Brune, but still not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Light gushing to very dense, fine-bubbled, light-brownish head, leaving textbook lace; upheld by very carbonated, deep amber-chestnut beer. Very earthy nose, woodsoil with dark green leaves, wood. Further dark candi sugar, molasses and licorice. Bit sweetish main taste, followed by a lightly acidic flavour, and a spiced-bitterish surrounding. Balanced as this may sound, it isn’t; it’s more this typical spicey-on-the-verge-of-infected state that is present in many Walloon brews, especially the Ardennes ones. More green leaves and earthy character. Yeasty + spicey - but from what kind of yeast? Rather light texture, which conflicts inherently with the type of beer. Hmmm. Not convinced.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Désir from Brasserie Brootcoorens Erquelinnes 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Huge, irregular, slightly off-white head, slightly hazy straw coloured beer, well carbonated. Spicey and blossomy nose; lime flowers, and camomille is what I get. Then very fresh, green hops emerge - British hops, I’d say. This nose is a marvel of subtlety. Taste: eughh. Gruelling combination of almonds, unroasted peanuts (arachide) and a spicey bitterness. Disconcerting in the extreme. Greenmalt, and unidentifyable spices. My companion says ensilaged grass. Some hops all the same - wild hops? Rather light MF. Nobody would dare to venture 9% ABV. That nose promised heaven. What is this arachide taste (in malt)? If you like this strange taste, this is murderously drinkable, as it appears light, but oh God if those 9% are real... I think those 9 spices were chosen because they smelt so good - but how they came out of a lagering tank was anybody’s guess...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
An unclear dark brown beer with a lazing beige head, the beer is very carbonated, so it flowed over when opened. The flavor is sweet with primary notes of over ripe fruits, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of prunes and over ripe fruit. The alcohol prickles the tongue slightly.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A hazy amber beer with a very thin head. The aroma is sweet malty combined with some notes of caramel, and so is the flavor, though added light notes of alcohol. The mouthfeel is slightly sticky. Nothing special.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Bottle at Kerstbierfestival 2005, Essen, Belgium
Small, white head. Clear, yellow body. Very strong, intense aroma - very alcoholic. Lightly sweet, lightly bitter initial flavour. Lightly bitter short finish. It doesn’t taste at all as I expected after having smelled the beer. There’s bitterness in the flavour, but not an interesting bitterness. It’s like those alcoholic beers, with no flavour, just alcohol. Well, this is exactly the same, but with (light) bitterness instead of alcohol. Honestly, I had never heard of this brewery, let’s keep it that way.