Bottle thanks to a visiting friend. Pours light hazy pale golden with a continual frothy white head. Aromas of grain and light spice. Taste is malty, light belgian yeast spice notes. Very high carbonation. Light sweet finish.

Bottle from Carrefour. Pours clear dark amber/brown with lasting, foamy, tan head. Aroma of brown sugar, syrup, dried banana, biscuit, spices, 'bloody' iron. Taste has sweet brown sugar & banana, quite yeasty, a tad metallic, some spicy coriander against a biscuity malty back. Malty finish, sugary, some herbal hops & faint brown rum-like alcohol. Medium body, creamy texture, lively carbonation. I don't feel the Christmas spirit here.

The Scotch in the Fagnes brand, now called Cuvée Constant in honour of Constant Lavaux, a wrestling champion of more than a hundred years ago... Foamy, frothy, audibly crackling, egg-white, cobweb-lacing head on an initially clear bronze-brown beer with warm copper hue, turning hazy with sediment. Aroma of hard caramel, clove, peanuts, brown bread crust, chewing gum, baked banana, toasted hazelnuts, plaster, young 'jenever', dried cranberries, hints of tea, brandy, iron, burnt sugar. Sweet onset, dark sugariness but not cloying and remaining well-restrained, hints of banana, pear and fig, bit bubblegummy, fizzily carbonated with a slight sourish edge; full, bit glueish, slick body. Hard-caramelly, smooth maltiness, bittersweetish with a light toasty edge, while that bubblegummy tone lingers on; spicy aspects in the finish, phenolic clove but actual spicing as well, albeit vague and difficult to identify (coriander perhaps, nutmeg, cinnamon?). Burnt sugariness and herbal, tea-like hoppiness accompany this malty bittersweet and spicy finish, highlighted by a warming, vaguely brandy-like alcohol glow. Scotch - the Belgian interpretation of the actually Scottish 'wee heavy' - once enjoyed huge popularity in this country, both in Flanders and Wallonia, but is now largely a thing of the past, unless if you count all those spiced dark Christmas beers that have been based on it from the start, generations ago; it is therefore no wonder that this beer, sadly no longer mentioning its 'Scotch' identity on the label (maybe for commercial reasons), strongly reminds one of the Belgian XMas ale tradition. Rather predictable, in all, with a slick bubblegumminess that annoyed me a bit; typical Fagnes style, I would argue. Not bad, but nothing really remarkable going on here either.

Aroma 7. Appearance 4. Taste 7. Palate 4. Overall 15. Mid-roasted malt, caramel, and hazelnut aroma. Spices, sweet, and raisin taste.

Bottle from Carrefour. Pours clear brown/dark amber with an unstable, frothy, tan head. Aroma of coriander, tea leaves, caramel, candi sugar, dried banana, raisin, cookie dough. Taste has sweet caramel, dried fruits over a bready malty base; fruitiness giving off a sourish effect; some soapy coriander in the back but enhanced by a decent herbal bitterness in the end; spices, candi sugar & bread/brioche malts lingering. Medium body, creamy texture, lively carbonation. Bloody coriander again but sweet maltiness saves the day.

330ml bottle. Poured a clear golden colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head and plenty of bubbles. The aroma is malt, some yeasty notes, woody hop. The flavour is moderate bitter, with a light, crisp, earthy, mineral, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average to lively carbonation. A fairly standard Blonde, but rather sessionable.

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020