8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cloudy, dark brown colour, small tan head. Aroma is of dark fruits, chocolate and caramel. Flavour has chocolate and dark fruits, together with some fresh hops. Smooth mouthfeeling. Excellent!
Tried
on 08 Jun 2008
at 04:11
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Rating # 2400.Bottle BBF 2005. Pours a dark brown color with a small fast disappearing off-white head. Has a sweet Malty and slightly earthy dark fruit aroma with hints of plums and raisins. Sweet malty plum and raisin flavor with some hints of honey and also some weak hints of licorice and some weak hints of yeast. Has a sweet malty dark fruit finish with a long warming dark fruit aftertaste. Very nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2008
at 05:44
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
The bottle looks really good, the beer in the glass also. Starts very strong, malty, not alcoholic. Very good and very drinkable beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2008
at 02:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
23/5/2008 (9/3/8/2/14) Thanks Lee for bringing this bottle back from Belgium for me! Deep reddish brown with a slight coffee-coloured head. Slight to moderate carbonation. Smells deep, rich, vinous. Texture is silky smooth despite the carbonation. Tastes initially of plums, port and chocolate; no bitterness at all (even my wife liked this, and she doesn’t like beer at all!). However, the ridiculously over-the-top alcohol soon burns away all other flavours, and for the last two thirds of the bottle this was pretty much all I could taste. Left a sweet, syrupy mouth coating - sticky to the point of unpleasantness. The wonderful initial flavours did return some time later, but I have to say that I feel this beer could be improved if the alcohol content could be reduced several notches. As it is, it’s still pretty good, but is rather over-rated - are people giving it such high marks purely because of the high alcohol content and the fact that it’s made by monks I wonder...? Re-rate 21/6/2009. Seems to have improved slightly with age - less sticky and less of an alcohol burn, but with an added and pronounced liquorice flavour. Maybe I’m warming to this beer after all... (9/3/8/3/15)
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2008
at 08:31
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330 ml bottle...cloudy golden copper..a tan head that grows on the swirl...burnt caramel nose, and a little sweet malt...nice fresh effervescence...a little thin with loads of carbonation...caramel on the palate as well its pretty simple, and easy to drink
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2008
at 14:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
(Re-rate on 2008-12-21, Bottle BBE 301713) Dark brown and cloudy. Quite big white head. Malts and anis in nose. Full bodied palate with quite high carbonation. Malts, anis, light bitterness, chocolate, sweetness and hint of fruitiness. Malts and anis in aftertaste. (Bottle at Hilpeä Hauki on 2008-02-23) Dark brown with hints of red. White browish small head. Malts and fruitiness in nose. A bit stinging feeling in palate that changes towards dryness. Malts and frutiness in taste. 8-4-7-3-13
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2008
at 11:32
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
(Bottle at Hilpeä Hauki on 2008-02-15) Dark brown colour with hints of red. Fruity sweet nose with malts in it. Fruity well balanced taste with sweetness from malts. Dark chocolate. Some bitterness. Long malty aftertaste. Absolutely marvellous beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2008
at 09:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Unclear dark red amber, with a lasting and lively off-white head. Caramel, molasses, some dried fruits in the aroma. The caramel and dried fruit aroma, appears sweetish, but the actual dryness makes it very drinkable. Some licorice and pepper in the finish.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2008
at 13:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from xmarcnolanx. Thanks! Pours a chocolate brown with a thin fizzy head that won’t go away. Aroma and taste are remarkably similar... strong caramel with dark fruits and bread. High and subtle effervescence. Some alcohol warmth, but it’s hidden well. Nicely balanced and very complex. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2008
at 19:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(3/17/08) Bottle at Gollem in Amsterdam. Dark brown color with a medium off-white head. Aroma of malt and dark fruits. Sweet and fruity flavor with some caramel, yeast, spices and a bit of alcohol in the finish. Medium to full body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 10:11