Bottle @ Take One. Cloudy amber colour with massive chunks in it, big creamy off-white head. Aroma of malts, caramel, yeasty spiciness, some fruits. Flavour is really subtle, soft and sweet, caramel, yeast, some spice, nice dry slightly bitter finish.

Bottle, Barleycorns, Nantwich. Easy there santa...lost a chunk of this all over the work surface as this exploded in to life. Strange looking grey tinged dark cloudy brown colour with a fair amount of sediment floating around. Aroma was spicy with some malt and dark fruit. Similar flavour which was sticky sweet and slightly cloying. Balance not quite there. Thought this would be a lot better; a let down.

My 100th Belgian Ale. 33cl bottle. Thanks to Madsnp. Pours cloudy gold with a small white head. Nose & taste is yeasty & spicy. Lots of cardemom, sugar & fruity orange. Quite one dimensional but very well made.

Bottle that Loz’s parents picked up for me recently whilst in Bruges, consumed erly Nov’ 2008. Pours very dark brown with a creamy tan head, poured quite lively as well. Lovey soft yeasty spiciness, nice dark sticky fruits and loads of dark molassess, lovely beer.

Muddy beige with chunks. Dull yeasty aroma shows light spice, light fruit. Lightish body with a faint alcohol signature. Light spice and yeast notes. Has a slight acidity to keep things lively into the finish.

Bottle, 33cl. When opening the bottle, lots of big chunks were driven to the neck of the bottle due to heavy carbonation. It didn’t gush out of the bottle, only a fingerthick cap of foam formed at the top, slowly getting more and more brown and a bit disgusting-looking. No chunks at the bottom of the bottle, all ended up in the top. Weird. When poured into the glass, all the chunks divided into smaller ones, but still quite large ones, and made the otherwise nice-looking brilliant orange-golden beer look un-inviting. The head was dense, off-white and quite small. Fruity-sweet aroma with some caramel, candi sugar, yeast-notes, pears and a touch of spicyness. I hoped the chunks would slowly settle at the bottom half of the glass, but the lively carbonation kept stirring them up. Effervescent, sweet, slightly warm and full-bodied in the mouth, with flavors of candi-sugar, dried fruits, some alcohol, caramel-notes, some spicyness and a generic fruityness. A little bitterness too. Fruity-sweet and slighlty bitter finish. By the way, I carried the bottle extremely carefully from my cellar, and opened it as gentle as I could, but to no effort. It would have been a much nice beer without the chunks. I ended up running most of it through a fine meshed strainer, but that only resultet in smaller chunks. Pouring it gently through a coffee-filter even didn’t remove the chunks, but they got much smaller, so I ended up pouring it down the sink. Will sure try it again later if I have the opportunity. (080929)