Alvinne Melchior

Bottle, 33 cl. (Yesterday at zottegem) Wow ! great beer ! dark blond, amber in color. Sweet malt aroma. Complicated, and medium to full body. What a creation !

Bottle, 33 cl. color = dark blond, white head. Aroma: very sweet, fruity. Medium to full body. Taste much alcohol, sweet, malt, ...dry finish. Again a very quality beer off Alvinne !

I thought it was a tripel and it was just as good, if not as complex, as the Balthazar. Sweet aroma that includes wheat and citrus-hops, as well as herbs and spices I can’t name. Cloudy orange and a long lasting head. Sweet fruit and more wheat in the flavor. Very full body and the high abv expertly hidden.

BANG! Beer fountain. Between sofa and kitchen the bottle emptied itself onto my carpet inspite of my Carl Lewis performance. The small amount of yeast saturated beer I did get to try was very very sweet. Melchor leaves dark stains in carpet which I am quite cross about. "Cellaring this might be really interesting" I certainly concur with that. HAVING visited the brewery again, I have to re-rate this beer. The exploding example was the first brew,bottled too young. The second brew is superb, whisky like, booming with quality. Not overly sweet. Thomas Hardy’s ale came to mind.

Bottle from Uto. I imagine this is purely personal preference, but a fantastic looking beer indeed! Slightly hazy, dark amber in colour with, I swear, whipped marshmallows for a head. The head is lovely shade of light pastel yellow with a pinkish hue - again, like marshmallows. Sip after sip, the thick cream clings to the side of the glass and with patience, slides down again... like an old man creeping into a warm bath. And the magic doesn’t stop there - a steady, streaming tornado swirls upward from the bottom center. It’s mesmerizing. Aroma is a bit of a let down - can sense little else among the alcohol, probably blocked by the thick head. A good swirl reveals dried berries and oranges. Flavour comes in a series of stages. A light fruitiness is abrubtly overpowered by spice and brown sugar... and then the alcohol thrashes out and murders all the glory. An endless, nutty biterness finishes it all off. It should be noted that the unusually smooth texture is ever present throughout the taste. Very nearly more noticeable than the intense flavours. Truely a good beer, but more so, an excititng experience.