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Brewed by Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Heule, Belgium

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a very small white head. Aroma of sweet fruits (especially apple), applesauce, cinnamon, light spices, molasses, and sweet malt. Flavor is sweet with coffee cake, candi sugar, dark fruits, molasses, and a slightly spicy finish. Full, heavy palate. This is a nice BSA--very interesting and tasty. 8/4/8/4/15 (3.9/5)

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma is sweet malty with noets of caramel and light notes of over ripe fruits. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of fruit, caramel, and alcohol, that prickles the tongue.

11.2oz bottle, from Capone’s (Norristown, PA). Lot 319, labeled Dec 2010. Clear chestnut pour, capped with a medium sized tan head. Aroma of caramel, yeast, candi sugar, and spice. Flavor is quite sweet, with lost of candi sugar, caramel, dark fruit, brown sugar, and spice. There’s some oak in the finish. Fairly thin bodied.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of joergen/MiP/yespr. Hazy dark amber golden with tiny floating impurities and a creamy beige head leaving some lacework. Aroma of overripe fruit. medium body, notes of overripe fruit and brown sugar. Has an underlying tartness and ends fairly dry. 200309

Am I really the first US rater for this? - this has been sitting on the shelves here in NY for months! - man, we’re falling behind, guys - anyway, I picked this up because the bottle said it was aged in oak - pours a very dark plum color - this smells like a Christmas beer mixed with a small portion of red wine - a lot of nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger sit on top of a tiny bit of oak tannins and musty character - things start out with a little bit of red wine, quickly covered up by dry spices (mostly nutmeg) and some yarrow-ish bitterness - develops a little sugary sweetness late, but red wine tannins return to balance that out - an interesting beer, but I think they overdid the spices.

It is hazy, red-golden with a creamy head. The aroma has notes of yeast, fruit, malt and candy sugar. The flavour has sweetness and notes of malt, candy sugar, caramel, fruit, citrus, yeast and the finish is slightly spicy and citrussy with a light bitterness.

A little hazy red/brown colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma of caramel with dark fruits and some yeast. The taste of a little chocolate with fruits, like prunes and raisins. Sparkling, some bitter with sweets. The aftertaste is bittersweet.

Bottle. Hazy orange red coloured with a medium sized off white head. Fruity aroma of caramel, spices and liquoirce. Fruity flavour of spices, caramel, liquorice and yeast. Yeasty and spicy finish.