Kasteelbier Donker

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Smells of alcohol. Appearance is full-bodied, robust, very beery, and yet luxurious. Its flavour is a bit overly alcoholic but its palate is deliciously malty with sweet brown ale tones, which are very pleasant. Light carbonation - goes down smoothly. Overall, very nice. The Kasteel Rouge is probably still better though.

Draft at The Thirsty Monk. Pours a dark brown body with no head. Smells of molasses and ripe fruit. Flavor is dark fruit, yeast, and dark sugar. Awesome.

Cloudy chestnut color and a thinnish off white head. Aroma of dark fruit and sweet caramel malt, and alcohol. Taste of caramel malt with chest warming alcohol in the finish.

Bottled. Comes in a real classy shallow tulip glass. Pours dark ruby with rich head. Toffee aroma, and once it is warmed up also roasted malt and burnt sugar. Sweet vinous and very malty. In a way quite remimiscent of a full bodied red wine. The mouthfeel is soft and it is arousingly flavourful. The balanced finish contains a slight trace of hop bitterness to balance the port wine.

On tap. Brown pour, light tan head. Caramel, dark malts, plum, and candy sugar. Not a very interesting beer, it’s alright.

Drank from a bottle in Brussels. This beer is very think but with bad head. It smells very much like coffer and caramal, ands tastes the same. Its pretty good, but you can’t drink more than one.

Tasted at the San Diego International Beer Festival. Medium brown with a fluffy borwn head. Faint aroma and a plum and sugar taste.

The color is dark brown with thin head. The palate is sweet, tasting like bitter chocolate. Medium to full bodied with in-mouth impression of rye in the finish. I like it.