7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(9% ABV) Ruby coloured, medium head. "Belgian" yeast-fruity aroma with notes of red currants. Very (too) sweet, malty flavour, with notes of black currants and toffee.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2004
at 13:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy dark-amber; dark cream head, evenly collapsing. Very fruity nose (grapes, plums, figs); liquorice, faint chocolate and lavender. Taste is estery (banana, fig), yeasty and spicey (coriander, galangaroot). Bit of orange liqueur. Very full-bodied, oily & slick mouthfeel. Nice, satisfying, but the coriandertouch is a touch too exaggerated to be really great. For those who like perfumey, thick malty beers, it has to be a must. But to qualify this amongst the Belgian top...
Tried
on 17 Jan 2004
at 03:01
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
Cloudy golden, huge lasting white head.Spicy yeasty nose.Heavy yeast flavor which is slightly acidic.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2003
at 18:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dutch ratebeer meeting. Large head, clear orange-brown coloured. Very spicy aroma, fruity, butter, orange. Spicy and malty taste, bit chocolat maybe. Sharp alcohol burn in taste and palate.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2003
at 10:48
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Totally hazy orange; little or no head. Sweetish nose like pancakes or waffles, at the same time spicey. Spicey, bitterish taste, unrefined. A little wheat. Pharmacy-like finish. Medium-bodied, not fully attenuated. Ho-hum. I prefer the Blanche des Honnelles.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2003
at 02:06
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
0.75 l bottle, one year old bottle - best before 2004, 9% ABV. Aroma of Raisins in rum, caramel, yeasty wood, port, a bit lemon. Dark chestnut brown coloring, impressive creamy tan head. Flawors are dark and wooden: A bit brown sugar, christmas spices, a bit citrus, cedar notes. The spicy aftertaste peters off nicely, but a little bit too quick. Body could be a little bit more powerfull. Very nice - this is really what a christmas beer should be like. Reading the other reviews it seems like lagering this beer for a year does it a lot of good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2003
at 13:29
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A cloudy amber beer with a fantastic light brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, yeast and cloves. The flavor is great; sweet malty with notes of cloves. If I should come up with one negative point, it would be, that the beer is a little too sweet.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2003
at 13:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dense creamy head, brownish; deep dark brown with reddish shine. Extremely powerful punch of fruit, alcoholS and esters (plums, grapes, blueberries,raisins, chocolate/mole, orange, pears...) in the nose. Gingerbread - or hot fruit punch. Sweet taste, with a mild-bitter edge; gingerbread, spicey. Citruszest finish, pepery, ginger. Very creamy mouthfeel, velvety. Loads of alcohol & fusels, alcoholburn, warming. Aftertaste of brown candi-sugar & orange brandy. Typical - liquid X-mas pudding and the rest. But definitely satisfying and complex enough.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Nov 2003
at 13:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hearty yeasty amber appearance with a thick finger of foam. Aroma is deeply fruity, with lots of raisin, plum, peaches, pears and dark chocolate. The body is robust though spritzy. The flavour is sweet, with chocolate, raisin, caramel, and many of the same fruits mentioned above. Lots of esters and residual sugars. Very rich and warming with a splash of alcohol at the back.
Tried
on 08 Nov 2003
at 09:52
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Crystal clear dark golden colour. Thick white fluffy head. I thought 'blanche' meant 'white' in flemish, but I guess not. This one looks nothing like a traditional white. Strong aroma of coriander seed, spices and wheat. Light-bodied; Very strong carbonation; Light in flavour, only a bit of the spice showing up, and hardly and malt. The alcohol is definately more noticeable than other whites, and the flavours are more sharp and one-dimensioned. Aftertaste is fairly bittered from the spices and malt. Overall, this beer is pretty good, but completely different than any other White...so don't expect a normal beer for the style. I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Norm's in Vienna, Virginia and sampled it at cellar temperature.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2003
at 23:59