Gribousine DHiver

Brewed by Brasserie La Binchoise
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Binche, Belgium

My Bottom Line:
Doughy yeast reigns and spiciness remains humble, as a fruit salad topped with brown sugar latches on to this pillowy Belgian Strong Ale.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A creamy sheet of foam lingers atop the foggy dark amber.
-Alcohol is expertly hidden.
-The finish is a slightly softer version of the flavor profile.
-If the doughy yeast component were taken out, there wouldn’t be much to say about this one.
-All flavors remain well integrated, and the spiciness is delicate enough not to be named.

Bottle; best before Nov.’08.

Aroma:fruity,plump nose... Appearance:Hazy dark amber,good creamy head... Flavor:light fruity flavor,watery....

Deep amber body, good beige head. Yeasty and wine aroma tempered by sweet apricot and grapes notes. The taste adds malty sweetness and licorice. Tastes a bit thinner but the balance is good. Spicy and drinkable, with a good hoppy and slightly bitter finish. Nice winter warmer.

amber coloured with carbonation body and a small off white head a malty aroma a malty sweet taste and a bitter finich

Darker amber coloured beer with lots of carbonation and a small off white head. Malty alcoholic aroma. Full palate. Finish is bitter, spicy and light alcoholic. Rather nice one.

Hazy amber hue, with a beige head, leaving laces, yeasty, cookie dough nose, with some toasted malts, and some toffee, caramel accents, with some spiciness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, sweet toasted, caramelized malt character, with a biscuity accent, some brown sugar, with a mild pruney, raisiny fruity note, with a sweet alcoholic mouthfeel, leading towards a toasty, malty, warm, dry hop finish.

Clear amber of color with a beige head. An aroma of spice, sweet raisins and notes of sherry. A flavor of caramel, cinnamon, spice, wood and liqurice notes.

Perhaps there are a number of beers like this that all present the same good qualities but don’t have the edge over a lot of others that can really define this as another special Belgian. Good qualities as expected in a finely crafted beer of its ilk, spiciness and some fine fruity esters. Caramel and plum pudding in the aftertaste and good balance.