Alvinne Gaspar

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

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.

Bouteille de 330 ml obtenue via Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Odeur d’houblons et d’épices. Apparence: La couleur est blonde orangée légèrement voilée. Présence d’un énorme col mousseux et d’une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes et d’houblons florals avec une pointe d’épices. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèremen astringente. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence de céréales en arrière goût. (Rating #2131)

Good looking pour with fantastic pillowy and billowing white head. Rather pedestrian aroma doesnt really seem to match the beautiful pour. Hops and light spice are there but are restrained. Nice mouthfeel reveals a hoppy spice taste with a lingering woodsyness. Quite drinkable for sure and overall pretty solid.

Bottle. Pours cloudy golden color, with creamy sticky lacing and head. Clove nose, wheat, banana, dry hops in the finish, some grass. Crisp flavors of dry wheat, hay, dry cereal, tasty spices. Dry, crisp, very drinkable.

Bottle from Bitter Virtue, Southampton, Hampshire, courtesy of my dad, cheers dad consumed 29-12-08. Pours murky brown with a white head. There is a very spicy and yeast nose and this is instantly a very warming beer with a real Christmassy tingle to it. The strength is tucked away quite wellsurfacing only now and again in waves of warmness on the roof of mouth and across the tongue, there are hops and bitterness but the spiciness seems to take care of those quite well. A7 A4 F6 P3 OV13 3.3

Bottle. Smells like a dusty Belgian beer, fruity, loaded with the perfume of hop resins, floral hoppiness, earthy, wait 115 ibu holy mac. This is one spicy dry earthy beer, i dont remember what Gaspars offering was but this is one hell of hop bomb. Etoh cant stand a chance to the dry dusty bitterness of this offering.

11.2 oz stubby. I think I have had this about a year or so. Hazy old with a massive, rocky, off white head. Dusty, spicy hop nose, yeasty. Flavor is clearly well hopped, a decent dry bitterness. Somewhat floral and dry. An odd fruity flavor is present as it warms a bit. Decent, but not a big winner. Thick, drippy lace.