wutangfinancial (272) ticked Saxo from Brasserie Caracole 1 month ago
IPARater72 (1339) reviewed Nostradamus Bio from Brasserie Caracole 4 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Chestnut/brown pour with a small, but stable slightly tanned head. Aromas of malt, candied oranges, marmalade, lemon, some wood. Flavour is orange, marmalade, malt, sweet bread, some smoky notes. Not overly boozy. It's quite enjoyable, but I somehow expected some more oomph. Thumbs up for being organic, too.
Maverick (5074) reviewed Nostradamus from Brasserie Caracole 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Mahogany color with a medium to moderate head. Aroma and taste are dominated by sweetness/brown sugary yeasty malty fruitiness. Liked it quite a bit.
Maverick (5074) reviewed Saxo from Brasserie Caracole 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Pours a hazy yellow with smallish head. SOme fruits and very standard run of the mill blonde ale flavors
Beer5000 (11295) reviewed Forestinne Ambrosia from Brasserie Caracole 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Backlog September 2011. Slightly unclear orange golden body under an off-white head. Mild fruity aroma, canned apricot and peaches, slightly spicy. Taste is sweet and fruity, malt, caramel, cane sugar, canned fruit like aroma and spicy Belgium yeast. Medium body and average aftertaste. A bit dull actually, but fair enough drinkable.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Nostradamus Bio from Brasserie Caracole 9 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
The organic version of Caracole’s classic winter ale, which I have not had for at least a dozen years or so; bottle at Huzaar in Ghent. Thick and rocky, pale yellow-beige, pillowy, slowly breaking head over a dark chestnut brown robe with mahogany hue, clear at first, misty further on. Aroma of dry raisins, brown bread, caramel, dried prunes, baked banana, a whiff of iron, coriander seed, clove, beech nuts, touch white pepper. Sweetish onset, brown-sugary but not cloying, clean and sleek with dried prune, candied fig and baked banana impressions over a deeper touch of blackberry-ish fruity sourishness which persists throughout; medium carb, rounded mouthfeel – pleasant, but actually rather slender for this kind of beer and this kind of strength. Caramelly, brown-bready maltiness with a nutty edge, developing a soft toasty bitterishness in the end as well as something very thinly metallic; hints of coriander and clove, the first added and the latter phenolic, keep it firmly in oldskool Belgian ale territory, while some leafy hops provide additional bitterness in the finish, aided by warming but non-offensive, brandy-like alcohol. Dried fruit sweetness in a non-sticky way lingers, very pleasantly so. I recall liking the original version quite a lot so many years ago, as a typically Walloon example of a Belgian style Christmas Scotch, feeling full, genuine, yeasty and well-measured; this one does essentially the same, but in a clearly more sleek and slender way, at least from what I remember when comparing with the original. Nice enough though, even on a sunny spring day.
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caribou43 (2255) reviewed Saxo from Brasserie Caracole 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
In my personnal view, it is a correct and classical Belgium beer, close to the Duvel, fruity side, a little sour, malt, hop. 17.06.2017, drinking it at Lausanne, Prélaz, probably coming from the place the l'Aligre, Paris or one bottle shop, rue de Charonne, close nowadays.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
It was a good surprise with this beer, a classical from Belgium, sweet, toffee, malt, also a bit dry, some hop. It is an interesting one. 11.10.2017, drinking it in Lausanne, Prélaz, buying it or in Paris or in the ex Grain d'Orges, Crissier.
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