Abbaye de St Landelin Spéciale Noël

Brewed by Les Brasseurs De Gayant
Style: Belgian Ale
Douai, France

Pours clear amber with a bubbly head. Aroma is light spicy with a caramel sweetness. Quite plain light malty and sweet flavor with hints of fruit and spice.

Bottle in Nice, 2006. Amber beer with a tall head a lots of bubbles. Aroma of amber malt, earthiness, yeast, and nuts. Sweet flavor, a bit fruity, decent hops. Dry finish of hops, Amber malt, a bit of alcohol. A bit too sweet, and not very complex. Not a bad beer, but not very special either. I am also not sure what makes this a Noel beer.

Bottle. Mild fruity and malt aroma. Copper body with very small head. Flavor is moderately sweet and spicy, lots of fruit. Lengthy mild malt finish. Overall very subtle and not particularly distinctive.

nice malts and smooth but too overly sweet. it has a nice festive look but its hard to fully enjoy.

The aroma is sweet with cardboard, yeast, and malt. The appearance is golden amber with a nice foamy head. The taste is like the aroma but too sweet. The mouth feel is thin. Overall this is not what I expected from a seasonal beer. It’s way too weak and watery and there is nothing special about it except it’s too sweet.

Bottled (BB 03/2009)
Clear amber color, medium-sized steady beige head, some lace. Sweet aroma with redberry, diacetyl and strawberry. Sweetish beer. Toffee, rye, berries, diacetyl and alcohol presence in the flavor. Medium-bodied with quite sticky mouthfeel. Kind of sweet biere de garde. Quite French, Jenlain Bière de Noël is close to this one.

bottled (thanks omhper!) Amber colour with mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is caramel, citrusfruits, some bitterish hops as well as spices. Flavour is fudge, some grassy hops as well as mild fruityness. Spices comes in the finish and aftertaste, along with strong fudge/caramel notes.

Bottle. Amber color, white head. Vegetable aromam some hops. Caramel flavor, spicy, some grassy hops and some fruits.