Alvinne Gaspar

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

Spicy yeast notes and light fruit in the aroma. Cloudy orange golden with fluffy white head. Medium body with creamy mouthful. Light fruity spiciness with hefty hop bitterness and some alcohol warming. Interesting.

Apparence brumeuse de couleur orangé/or avec une belle mousse fouetté beige collante. Aromes de cendre, houblonné, un peu metallique, bananes, zest d’orange. Forte présence de CO2, tres bonne amertume sur une finition sucré et crémeuse. Saveurs de bananes, caramel, zeste d’orange et citron et levure.

Bottle, courtesy of the Chelsea Pub, Parma. A gusher, half of the contents covered the table. Spicy aroma and palate. Cinnamon, rich maltiness, fine balance. No Belgian sourness, yet there is a camouflaged dryness that makes this a very fine beer indeed.

Very nice sunset orange yellow hue. Aroma is a slightly yeast-forward with a bit of noble hops. Thick white head and strongly carbonated. The flavor is fairly bitter for a Belgian ale, and the effervescence makes for a decent refreshing quaff.

33cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Cloudy golden yellow colour, white head. Strong floral and fruity yeast aroma with some hops. Flavour is yeasty, a bit fruity, dry mouthfeel, with a yeasty and malty bitter finish. Gets better when it warms up, gains more depth and spiciness. Nice strong ale, but not exceptional.

Effervescent, off-white head adorns a murky, golden-orange body. Head retention and lacing are both remarkable. Smells very citrusy, spicy, and yeasty until the head dissipates, then caramel malt and alcohol come through well. Taste is exceptionally bitter, sweet, and warming with a tingle of spiciness; earthy hops come through in the finish. Medium bodied with creamy carbonation

Bottled. Poured hazy medium-deeper orange with a creamy, well-retained cap off eggshell head. The aroma picked up a whole bunch of light fruit and citrusy hoppage over a pale malt base.. thick, spicy yeast slurry-like character deeper down. The flavor began bitter and stayed bitter with white pepper and citrusy notes all the way through well after the finish.. caramel and pale malts supported the core, but were greatly overshadowed by the aggressive bitterness.. peppery heat aftershock through the nostrils along with pineapple and pears as it warmed up. Medium-bodied with creamy carbonation on the palate and the aforementioned bitterness.. not really pleasant to drink.

Hazy honey gold hue, with a fluffy white head, yeasty, fruity nose of faint pineapples, mangoes, with a bready dough, wheaty, pale malt accent, with a spicy hint of honey in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, fruity, grainy, wheaty, pale malt character, with a hint of sweet candy sugar, and a flowery hop citrusy, leafy accent, and fruity flavors leading towards a zesty citrusy, hop dry bitterness finish.