Brand Sylvester

Brewed by Brand Bierbrouwerij (Heineken)
Style: Belgian Ale
Wijlre, Netherlands

Bottle at the wombat. Very nice amber colouring. Aroma of sweets and fruits. The taste is also sweet and fruity with hints of alcohol. Liked it for half a glass, after that it became a struggle to finish my glass.

0.3 L bottle. A dense, fingerthick yellow tanned head over an orange to light brown colored body with good clarity. Sweet buttery malts and cream-caramel to the nose. Also a whiff of ripe apples and alcohol. Taste is medium to heavy sweet. Buttery malts again, backed by some mild bittering hops. A sour tone is noticable. Mid-bodied with an oily mouthfeel. Malty, light bitter-sweet ending. Goes well down, but does stand out in any way.

Bottle t.h.t. dec ’09. Dark amber, almost no head, very sparsely. Aroma of sweets, and fruits. tastes bitter from the alcohol (not the hops), some dark fruit, fizzling carbonation. Finish average.

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a dark red wine-like colour with a medium off-white head and a sweet, fruity aroma with hints of prunes, caramel, rhum and molasses. The taste is bitter sweet, with both hops and notes of malts, alcohol, molasse, toffee, milk chocolate and dark fruits. The finish is both sticky sweet and mildly hoppy. pretty good

Copper colour. Sweet aroma. Nice bittersweet flavour with hints of red fruits.

Bottle 30cl. @ home.
Clear medium to dark orange amber color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and burnt caramel bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090223]

T.h.t. december 2009. Banana smell and taste. Malty and slightly alcoholic.

From tap at de Wildeman. Pours clear and deep amber, golden with a small off-white and creamy dense head. Breadish and slight diacetyl like aroma. Roasted malt flavour with a slight metallic touch. Mild diacetyl note here too. Ends slight metallic, malty and somewhat bitter. No sweetness left.