De Dolle Stille Nacht Reserva 2000

Formerly brewed at De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Diksmuide, Belgium

Split bottle with BrianK, (last one) at D.B.A. in NYC who would have thought! Second time thanks to Mike for sharing this!! Dark amber pour with minimal lacing/co2, this beer is 8 years old! Dark fruit plum grape and fig with sweet notes of chocolate caramel sugar and dark wine. Minimal etoh in taste and scent. WoW what a sick beer. Im not sure this beer could be better.

What a freaking amazing beer. I found it even more crazy that i purchased it at a bar for $15. They claimed the single bottle had been sitting in the cellar untouched for years. What an amazing use of bordeaux casks which imparted a very nice subdued flavor. Where is the 12%? It drank like 7 or 8%. This is probably the best belgian beer i’ve ever had.

Notes from about a year ago...Thanks Eric!! Poured a relativly clean amber/orange color with a small but kinda sticky tan head. The aroma is red grapes, dry merlot, plums, raisins, mild alcohol, and fresh carmel. Flavors also have some huge merlot characteristics with a little more sweetness. Tastes of dark fruits, vanilla, honey, light yeast, and a somewaht drier, oaky finish. Excellent!!

Sampled at dark Lord Day, this was from Mike Sprinkle.Thanks again Mike for the brew and having you as a friend. Lighter in color that I thought it would be. Still had a nice aroma. Soured fruity notes with plenty of other spices going on. The taste was a bit thin and would hold this up as only a good BSA. I would have loved this 2 years ago.

Thanks Ughsmash for sharing this gem. The first pour is a glowing reddish amber body. What I had with fourth pour was a hazy glowing amber body with out the redness. A foamy white head with spotty lacing sits on top. The aroma was very vinous Bordeaux with some pineapple, cinnamon, and toffee rounding out the beer. It was amazingly aromatic, strong, and yet very balanced. The flavor is sweet quad yeasts with pineapple, toffee, aged malts, light oak, cinnamon, and some very subtle Bordeaux. Nicely balanced and very nice tasting. The palate was sweet, slick, warming with no alcohol noticeable to me, and nicely textured. This beer held up really nicely.

Huge thanks to hopdog for the bottle, Rating #2000!! Poured clear, fiery medium orange initially (progressively more hazy with subsequent pours).. loose dusting and larger bubbles of off-white head around the edges.

The aroma was just exquisite.. definitely a solid dose of Bordeaux influence over a sweet, supple base.. the underlying beer mellowed out considerably, leaving sweet caramel, toffee, and a delicate bouquet of light fruits (peaches, apricots, and some vinous influence).. deeper oak and Bordeaux undertones as well.. almost a sweet bourbon in there too.

The flavor begain with an array of sweet lighter fruits, sour oak, and grape skins, followed by warm caramel and toffee on the middle (accented by warm clove and other Christmas-ey spices).. warm back-end with a touch of oak and a bunch more vinous.. very long, warm, sweet and complex finish.

Warm and entirely fulfilling on the palate with great balance between sweet fruits, sour barrel influence and grapes, and alcohol warmth. This was entirely what I needed. Thank you Steve!!

Not my favorite from De Dolle. But like their other brews, this is totally original. Sweet? Crazy intensely sweet. Definitely good idea to put a couple of year on the Stille Nacht.

This generously provided bottled brew from Mike Sprinkle on Dark Lord Day poured a head of frothy fine to medium sized bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a hazy uncarbonated orange brown colored body. The strong aroma was spicy and malt hop. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and strongly tingly at the finish. The complex yummy flavor contained notes of mild spice and malt hop. Delicious and one I would certainly like to drink again but will probably never get trhe chance to sample this sought after brew again.