355ml bottle at home on 14th July 2019. Misty golden body, bubbly white crown. Yeasty, orangey aroma, taste also has a yeasty and orange lead. Good hop bitterness majors flavour wise.

Bottle, slow gusher. Very dark brown, small light beige head. Malty, yeasty aroma. A little dried fruit and chocolate. Fruity, malty flavour, yeast, sweet dried fruit, light choc.

La mousse sort de la bouteille à l’ouverture. L’olfactif nous offre des esters fruités aux notes d’orange, des aromes de pain, des épices aux allures de clou de girofle et de poivre. Olfactif complexe. Une bonne mousse crémeuse blanc cassé recouvre le liquide doré/orangé très flou. La mousse persiste bien. Le gustatif est épicé, fruité et sucré avec de belles notes orangées, du clou de girofle, du poivre et une finale légèrement épicée où l’alcool s’immisce subtilement. Les sucres sont représentés par des dérivés de la canne et se donnent des allures de jujubes. La carbonation pourrait être plus forte et la finale plus sèche. Construite dans la tradition Trappiste, il y manque cependant quelques éléments pour atteindre cette perfection.

330 ml bottle, from Det Bette Ølhus, Aalbæk. ABV is 6.5%. Muddy brownish-golden colour, moderate to small white head. Aroma of malts, old jam and mild spices. Soft carbonation. The flavour has malts and Belgian ale yeast, peppery notes of mild spices, hints of dried dark fruits, there is a slight sweetness but the beer is quite refreshing. Would buy again.

Bottle at a tasting. Malt centered, with lots of complexity and intensity. Slightly lacking the deep roast, but everything else is present. Cocoa, chocolate, caramel. Full body, moderate carbonation. Good one.

Bottle.Dark brown color with thick beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chcolate, nougat. Taste, roasted malt, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, nougat.

Bottle at tasting with Cuso, MisoW and Gurthnar. Malty aroma, chocolate, roastyness, light coffee, nuts, light sour, light to medium bitter. Full body, malty bitter sweet finish. Ok.

One of the newest Spencers to date, from the most adventurous trappist brewery so far in terms of beer styles - this one representing a Wiener, the original amber lager style, in a kind of 'downtuned' form compared with their Festive Lager. Eggshell-white, mousy and frothy, bubbly, lightly membrane-lacing head on a misty orangey to even amberish peach blonde robe. Aroma of hard caramel candy, cold tea and tea bags, lightly smoky phenols even comparable with (unsmoked) cigarette shag, bread crust, dried apricot, minerals, touch of dried orange peel. Sweetish onset with restrained fruity notes (apricot, apple peel) but very subtly so, medium fizz with light minerally effects, smooth and lightly glueish mouthfeel; peanutty and hard-caramelly malts, subduedly sweetish with a very light toasty-bitterish edge, retronasal smoky phenolic accents again, light herbal hop bitterishness in the end, dryish. Hoppier and more phenolic than a classic Wiener, this is in fact an American style amber lager, very akin to Samuel Adams' Boston Lager (one of the great 'catalysts' of the craft beer movement) or Brooklyn Lager. No flaws here, but I found the Festive Lager a little bit more convincing and original due to its - for the style - higher ABV.