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De Dolle Stille Nacht 3.89 983

De Dolle Stille Nacht

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

Diksmuide, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
9833.9/5.03.89/5.0Winter12%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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 Kodos (200), USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Jan 19, 2003  
Almost looks like apple juice on the pour. Heavy apple and raisin in the nose. First taste is heavily malty, then candy aple, caramel. Finishes with a dark fruit and honey sweetness turning sour near the end. Warming alcohol presence completes this great brew. I REALLY dig the sweetness mixed with slight sour in this beer. One of my new favorites!!!!


 ¾ (5003), Colorado, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Jun 9, 2006    Updated: Nov 18, 2008
Bordeaux-cask aged vintage from 1982
Consumed at Kulimator in May 2006
Deep purple colored body with a still white filmy head. Very robust nose full of scotch, port and sherry, with notes of black cherry and old oak casks. Thickness and texture, while expected it to be huge, is silky, tannic and wine-like. Rich, silky, oily, resinous... PERFECT palate. Was told that this was the favorite beer of Dirk Van Dyck, who runs Kulminator, and I can see why.

Photograph of Bottle & Glass:
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My ratings of the 2004 vintage are probably in the 4.4 - 4.8 range.
My ratings of the 2007 vintage (tasted young) are probably in the 4.0 - 4.3 range.


pxl (4), Belgium
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Feb 16, 2005  
the best belgian christmas beer in my opinion! very sweet, but not to sweet. with the years, the taste keeps getting better!


 GreatLibations (1454), Last Supper, Arizona, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Aug 5, 2006  
Pours a beautiful bright, lighter shade of gold w/ medium sized creamy froth. Aroma is of sweet lemony herbs. Full nectar / soft residual effers. Flavors of sweet lemon drops, caramel, slight leather w/ a kick ass asprin burn on the finish to balance out. Very complex. It’s a sweeter brew but the big hopy asprin finish acts as a palate cleanser. I just wanted to keep drinking it. Not a trace of flavor from the 12% alcohol. Amazing. Highly recommended. If you like Dogfish head 120, you’ll love this one at half the price.


Dolty (15), Sweden
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Aug 17, 2006  
Utterly fantastic. A personal favourite, and I have my eye firmly fixed on this small brewery.


 oberabcbbsok (686), Hoboken, Belgium
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Apr 27, 2007  
A wonderfull brew with taste evolution. I had a vertical beer tasting of 8 different years on the same day. I had 8 different tasts. Since that day this is one of my favorites


MonkeyProver99 (24), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/519/20
Feb 21, 2001  
Another amazing beer from De Dolle. A heavyweight ale loaded with candied fruit character which matches its sourness perfectly. World classic.


 ford9719 (369), Vilseck, Germany
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/105/520/20
Nov 4, 2006  
1 finger head. pours a golden brown with a white frothy head. has an aroma of apple and orange. very sweet after taste.



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