7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

50 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden orange to amber. Small tan head. Aroma is toasted malt. Breadish and caramelish. Sweet, fruity. Slight wineous. Caramel sweet and toasted. Mellow. Caramelish and sweet finish.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

At Ghent Beer Society's Beer Quiz; shared with Anke & Pieter!
Hazy brown with a small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of raisins, candied fruits, sugar, vanilla, caramel and liquor. It tastes medium to heavy sugary sweet and light fruity sour; some touches of vanilla and wood. Sweetish, slightly dry, alcoholic finish. Medium to full body, slick/sticky texture, soft carbonation. Punch of sweetness here, so a great dessert beer.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Elie. Many thanks! Hazy amber/brown colour. Sweet nose of raisins, plums, brown sugar. Syrupy, sweet and lots of calvados. Rather sweet, not that mind blowing as the Reserva but still very nice beer!

6

Too sweet... And not enough BA. Hmm... Refermentation went wrong? --- Beer merged from original tick of Nonniversaire on 25 Jan 2016 at 20:56 - Score: 8

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

At Hopishop 2017. Aroma of malt, raisin and sweet caramel. Taste has sweet raisin, sugary ripe malt and caramel. Bit dusty, didn't age well.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

At Hopishop 2017. Aroma of malt, dust and raisin. Taste has raisin, malt, sugar, figs and dusty ripe fruit. Meh, feels too old.

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Another barrel aged variant on this interesting Nonniversaire theme, aimed at more educated gastronomy - something a well-made barleywine should easily be able to pull off. At Gents Bierfestival. Loosely structured, irregular, yellowish beige, fairly stable head over a more or less clear, very purely copper coloured beer, with warm bronze-ish hue. Rich bouquet of candied cherries, honey, armagnac, sweet sherry, banana liqueur, cranberry sauce, candi sugar, caramel sauce, sweet white grapes, dessert wine. Very sweet flavour, candied cherries and bananas drenched in melting candi sugar, sticky even, with only a thin, berry-like sourish line running through it; medium carbonation, actually a bit on the spritzy side for the style, thick and smooth, oily mouthfeel. Caramelly malt base, bit nutty, with this thick candied and honeyish sweetness on top, somewhat more dry in the finish thanks to tannins from the armagnac barrels; lots of warming, liqueurish rather than truly brandy-like alcohol in the end but the unfermented sugary sweetness remains firmly in place. Too sweet for my tooth even for an English style barleywine, but original and very well made, I can see this being successful served at cellar temperature in sherry glasses after a copious meal in some fine dining restaurant.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Copper colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour are super sweet. Boozy , rich and sticky.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

At Gents Bierfestival 2017. Pours rather clear, dark amber. Small white head. Smell is intense, oak, armagnac. Taste is ll, sweet, intense and complex. Oak, as well as the armagnac. pretty balanced. Quite good

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Thank you for sharing RB Crew! Sampled 500 ml. bottle @ GBF 2017. Dark brown amber with no head. Nose is pleasant thick sweet oxidized warming dark fruit sludge. Taste is lovely sugary dark fruity malt syrup, big nice oxidation with lingering warmth, sipping oxidized sludge, caramel, toffee, little carbonation, body is the same. Great stuff for those who like the concept.