Leffe Radieuse

330 ml bottle. Good looking reddish brown body with a big off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt, caramel, brown sugar and fruit. Flavor is sweet malty, caramel, slightly roasted sugar, spices, fruit, some bitterness and alcohol. It’s quite complex but easy to drink. Excellent balance between sweetness, bitterness and alcohol with a pleasant finish.

Pale amber/ruby. Inch-high off-white head fades to a thing covering. Good lacing. Typical Belgian yeast aroma, some white rum, lots of phenols, then some banana, nutmeg and cinnamon. Remarkably like the dubbel I brewed the other day. Flavour is mostly alcohol, some fruity malt, doughy yeast and some lemon. The alcohol and high sweetness combine to make and annoying cloying finish. Loads of alcoholic heat on the palate and too much carbonation. Used to think Leffe was the be all and end all of intense expensive beers. Thank god I got over the stage.

33cl Bottle. Nice reddish brown color with a thick off-white head.Malty beer with strong fruity and spicy aromas and flavor. Well balanced and enjoyable. My favorite Leffe so far.

Nice deep ruby color with a large brown head. Looks great! Aroma had definate notes of rasberries mixed with some yeasty belgian fruity notes. Flavor was quite bitter, the kind of bitterness you get from green berries, mixed with a rather cloying sweetness. Guess it just went down hill from first to last impression.

33cl bottle at L’Autre Oeil. Amber with a medium head. Aroma is prunes and dry fruits. Taste is like aroma with notes of cherries. Very nice beer. Rating #59

Bottle: Amber, clear, lively carbonation, small, but stable creamy beige head; a subtle fruitiness in the by caramel and coriander dominated nose; moderate sweet, slightly bitter flavour, medium bodied, sweet-caramelly finish with a subtle fruitiness and some spices around. Pleasant, not too complex.........

Bottle. Pours red/orange, off white head. I do like the colour. Aroma is sweet, like sugary plums. Flavour has berries and plum, which fade to some hop bitterness. A good balance in the flavour. Finish is bitter and dry. Nicely made ale, alcohol doesn’t show at all.

Bottle 3/4/10 Brown clear with very good head. Aroma of esters,banana, high alcohols with crystal malt background. Flavour of warm alcohol balanced by a good malt background, slightly sweet,not much hop. Overall a well balanced strong ale, not cloying, wouldnt of guessed 8.2%