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De Dolle Stille Nacht 3.89 979

De Dolle Stille Nacht

Percentile
99
overall
Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Diksmuide, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
9793.9/5.03.89/5.0Winter12%96.7Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers brewed for Christmas. It has the highest density of any Belgian beer (27°Pl), has been boiling for 5 hours, brewed with pale malt with white candi sugar in the kettle. The Nugget hops and dry hopping gives an extra bitterness to balance the extreme sweetness due to the density. The taste triangle is completed with some acidity of the fermentation. It is a very interesting beer to age. We have samples of every bottling we have done so far and aging does not mean decreasing quality with this beer. Keep some samples at 10°C and mark the year on the cap with an alcohol marker. Cheers!!
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 Angeloregon (2025), Portland, Oregon, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Bottle from Belmont Station--Poured a foggy yellow-orange body with a mammoth white head. Big citrus lemon, orange nose with a deep malty caramel presence. Great carbonic balanced mouthfeel. Nice!


 Furseth (1333), Kungälv, Sweden
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Bottle:2007: Hazy yellow colour, with a thin white head. Aroma of citrus, yeast, flowers, and some sournes in the end. Flavor has a smouth fruity mouth feeling mixed with alcynes. Nice medium body, with a medium fruity/citric finish. Nice.


 BeerGestapo (740), Windsor, Pennsylvania, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/518/20
Aug 1, 2008    Updated: Dec 6, 2008
Brewed in Belgium. Pours a hazy orange color with a monster foamy off white head. There was tons of sediment in this bottle !! This belgium strong ale has a wonderful citrus, caramel, and banana aroma. The taste is of figs, citrus, candy, and yeast. The 12% is pretty well hidden, and there is some nice lacing too. This is very impressive stuff.


 BoBoChamp (1382), Gent, Belgium
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/516/20
Jul 27, 2008  
33cl, X-Mas brew Anno 2007, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex, very heavy, cloudy, good head, good brew


 RomanW70 (297), Providence, Rhode Island, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/519/20
Jul 14, 2008  
Had 2000 bottle (330 ml) at Kulminator on 6/19. One of the best beers I’ve ever had. Just amazing aroma of sweet fruits and caramel malts. Flavor very sweet, but not cloying at all, with a wonderful vineous finish. This beer ages unbelieveably well. Just an unbelieveable beer.


 FlssmrBrewAlum (1157), Lisle, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Jul 13, 2008  
Single from Party Liquors (Steger, IL). 2006 is the year. Pours a very hazy floaty ridden heavy amber with a prominent tan head that begins to dissipate. Nose of sweet fruits and butterscotch. Taste of honey sweetness, belgian yeasty / spiciness that is a little more somber, and a very boozy presence. Complex. Unsessionable. Decent, unique, but strong.


 DocHop (278), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/105/516/20
Jul 8, 2008  
Pours a hazy orange with a ton of sediment and a huge off-white, foamy head. Thick aroma of orange citrus acidity, grains, Belgian yeast, and malt. Heavy bread in the taste with a strong acidity and tartness from the Belgian yeast. Sugar doesn’t add much to the flavor only the heat in the stomach! The bitterness isn’t apparent but does a great job leveling out the 12% ABV. Another interesting overall concept from De Dolle.


 darkguardian (506), Florida, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/104/518/20
Jul 5, 2008  
12oz bottle at Redlight Redlight (Thanks Teege). Pours a dark amber with a huge long lasting head. Slightly tart aroma with huge amounts of yeast and dark fruit on the nose. Taste is really incredible. Dark sugar, some tart apple, berries, yeast and figs. Very low bitterness, and the alcohol is nonexistant despite the 12%. Truly an incredible beer.



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