Gulpener Wintervrund (2005-2007)

bottle, 04/11/01 best before march 2008, nice richly flavored beer with lots of spices and fruit.

Bottle. A real christmas beer (I saved a bottle). Nice purple brownish colour, off white head. Aroma of spices, cloves, dark fruits. Flavour of christmas spices, some sour dark fruits, a little medicinal aftertaste.

Bottle. Low and quickly disappearing off-white fluffy head. Hazy orange red body. Artificial smelling berries aroma. Heavily carbonated malt flavor with berries with sour notes. Long strange aftertaste.

[bottle from Antonio] Powdery sugary candy (including banana) aroma with some spicy melanoidiny malt. Clear brownish garnet with wispy off-white top and ring. Sweet toffee flavour with raisin/candy banana and very low bitterness. Nice malty finish and slightly warming. Medium body, moderate carbonation, sweet. Boring but clean.

Clear dark amber with tiny white short lasting head. Sweet aroma with perfurmy, caramel and flower notes. Sweet spicy flavor with caramel and malty notes. Ends sweet.

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep orange with a lacing white head. Perfumed and light spiced. Flavour holds more of that same perfumed floral notes. Sweet and light maltbase in addition. Shows a persisting floral finish with a light bitterness.

300 ml bottle. Light brown/dark red body with a small beige head. Aroma is spicy, like a Christmas cake. Flavor is sweet malt, caramel, cloce, cardamom, ginger and some kind of bitterness. It’s a lot of Christmas in this beer.

330ml bottle (Bierkoning, Amsterdam) 2007 variety
Rich clear red, tiny head. Spicy aroma - actually like spiced meats! Good malty body, like it’s based on a brown ale. Woody and a bit drying, but a nice balanced spice - not caricatured.