Lefebvre Floreffe Prima Melior (Meilleure)

Brewed by Brasserie Lefebvre
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Rebecq-Quenast, Belgium

A dark brown ale with a thick moka head. Aroma is of light torrefied coffee, sweet sugar, and coriander. In mouth, a wonderful smooth licorice malt, with coffee, ligth chocolate, and sustained burned toast bitterness. Medium bodied. A very pleasant beer. From SAQ gift pack. Lot 06/2008.

33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a huge light brown head. Yeasty spiced and roasted malt aroma. Complex spiced flavour, clear notes from the yeast but also roasted and somewhat herbal notes to. I sense some chocolate smoothness and some edge from a liqourice like note. Dry and again somewhat herbal finish.7-5-7-4-15=3.8

ZBF2008: From tap, as Floreffe Bruin. Pours dark brown with a dense tan head. Light malty and minor diacetyl aroma. Flavour is roasted malt, light spiced and mellow yeasty beneath. Lingering spiced and roasted malt finish.6-4-7-3-13=3.3

[Bottle from Adelina.] Very sweet with vinous creamy notes. Uncomplex and a bit boring. As Kasper mentions, it needs some years under soil.

1/16/05. 330ml. Belgianshop. amber brown with large creamy tan head. Malty cookie aroma. yeasty cookie bready taste. well balanced

Exploding head and look, with a sparkling that just kept on going. The aroma was sweet and sleightly vinouse, but overall very uncomplex compared to what i had expected. Somethimes it feels like these brews could use a few years in the celler.

Pours a dark mahogany brown with a light tan big pillowy head. Aroma of toast, caramel, maple, dried fruit, maybe a pinch of mint. Tastes of caramel, toast, gingerbread, figs, and pears with an underlying Belgian spice (nothing inherently unique to it though). Finishes pretty dry and toasty with an earthy, almost coffee like bitterness. Overly carbonated mouthfeel, I had swirl a lot of the CO2 out of this! Otherwise, it’s medium and pretty drinkable. No alcohol presence. Good stuff which does everything well, but plays it too safe for me.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Brown, yeasty Belgian ale. Sweet malt, some fruit, slightly spicy finish. Typical.

750ml from River City Cellars, Richmond. Very dark pour, somewhat unorthodox given the fruity flavors - coriander, citrus, and a hint of clove - in this one. A fairly modest mouthfeel, not quite a long enough finish and an attenuation of the flavors towards the end. Above average, but nothing spectacular.