Leffe Radieuse

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Leuven, Belgium

This is the 2nd of my Leffe marathon and very bloody good it is too!!Really rich red colour and a good frothy head.Creamy orange taste,I think it hides its alcohol well,just the kind of beer for a wintery night!

Pours orange/amber with medium low head. Aromas of spice and fruit esters with subtle malt in background. Flavors of clove, bubblegum, malt with a warming finish from the 8.2%. Good head retention. Carbonation lends to creamy mouthfeel. Bottle in good condition from Belgian Shop.

(Bottle) Brown with orange shine, clear body, yellowish head, glass sticking. Very perfumed, like a sixteen y.o. girl on saturday night, raisin, orange, "egg bread" soaked in marsala, cherry jam, weak vanilla. Taste is sweet, with note of citrus, caramel, a bit flat. Warming, full body, taste and palate without surprise, not very original. Pleasant without soul.

Bottled. Dark red-amber with coffee froth head. Spicy, winter fruit aroma albeit fairly subtle, restrained and alluring rather than overpowering. Malty, warm, soothing fruit, enjoyable but I’ve had better.

Dark amber/brown in colour with a thin head of low persistence. Very malty both in aroma and in flavour. Hints of caramel and raisins in the nose. A little fruity in the mouth, sweet. Hop and alcohol not evident. Quite honest abbey ale.

Bottle from Onlyfinebeer. Poured a clear dark amber colour, with a good, just off-white head. Aroma is fresh and spicey with some background sweet maltiness. Interesting taste; malty, fruity, lightly roasted.The flavour seems to go through distinct and quite different phases, a little disjointed perhaps; taste is perhaps at its most enjoyable near the end. Nice sweet and slightly bitter aftertaste. Full bodied, creamy and smooth. It’s growing on me as I type.

Old brown color with shine of red exotic wood and bone like colored head. Nose of Pear stuffed in red wine, cinnamon, light roasted malts and cheep Port. It has a medium taste with some roundness. In the afthertaste there is some maltyness with candy sugar, dried sultanas and an unineresting bitterness that stays too long on the pallet.

Pours a fluffy head but disapates quickly. Chocolate brown hue, ever so slightly cloudy. Quite lifted nose with some sweet, spicy almost cinammon notes. Nice mouthfeel, plenty of fizz early but disappears at the back. Fairly sweet palate, thickens a little but nevery cloys. Good length and carries the 8.2% with ease. No heat to speak of. Like the stablemate Vieille Cuvee a sipper (ie one bottle a session) drink but to my mind a better drop.