 Rynoplasty (500), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Aug 5, 2009 2007 bottle. Pours brown with a nice off white head. Aroma is full of dark fruits and esters. Flavor is nice slightly roasty caramel, dark fruits, and a bit of candi sugar. Very good.
BeerChaser0078 (284), Melbourne, Australia
Aug 5, 2009 75cl bottle. Pours a lovely copper with a tan head which disappears fairly quickly. Rather light, slightly smoky nose which gives little indication of the strong flavours of toffee, cherry, raisins and a hint of woodiness. The abv is not overly noticeable. Similar to some of the good christmas ales while being a little bit more complex. I can imagine this beer would only improve with age. Overall a pretty good beer.
j12601 (1149), Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Aug 3, 2009
Bottle of the Limited Edition 2008 offering, at BCTC. Pours a hazy brown with a thin beige to tan head. Candy, plum, and prunes on the nose. More plum and dark fruit in the body. A little sweet for me, but still fairly solid.
shigadeyo (2210), Harrison, Ohio, USA
Jul 28, 2009 Limited Edition 2006
5/29/2008: N’Ice Chouffe = hazy chestnut brown color; small beige-colored head; aroma of ripe fruit; strong fruity and caramelly flavor; balanced overall.
1 pt 9.4 fl oz bottle (10.0% Alc./Vol.) shared by Tmoney99. Thanks Tom! Rating #644 for this beer.
skweek (13), College Park, Maryland, USA
Jul 26, 2009 Poured ruby with a thick tan head. Taste was fruity with lots of spice. It was good, but not really my style. Bottle was 2007 vintage, aged roughly a year.
MBison (548), Southern Highlands, Australia
Jul 23, 2009 Updated: Jul 24, 2009Bottle (750ml) Aged roughly 9 months piror to tasting. Poured hazy dark copper with a small, fizzy, light brown head which was mostly diminishing. A rich aroma with sticky toffee malts, muscatels, burnt brown sugar, currents, caramelized dates, cola, cinnamon and hints of dust. Flavor was smooth with a very mild bitterness, toffee malts, rich fruitcake notes, stewed apricots, nutmeg, cinnamon and a warming woody finish. Noticeable alcohol content. Medium bodied with medium carbonation, a slightly thick texture and a good length finish. A little to much on the sweet side for my liking.
Vertical Bacon Strips (874), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jul 14, 2009 ohoh... gonna be a tad tipsy in an hour...
Poured out a nice deep reddish brown brew with a decent foam up but excellent retention and lacing leaves plenty of the light brown crown behind. Lots & lots & lots of chunks! Comes out quickly with a medium strength complex spice and yeast, dark malts, dark berries, weak raisin, orangeish. Great flavours here: more of the same compared to the nose with clove and soft pepper coming out more, oak?, fig, lots of thick rich malts, weak alcohol. This turned out to be one beer that I would prefer to not let warm excessively as it started to fall apart. Smooth on the mouth, finishes sweet and invites you back for another sip. Highly drinkable. My cellar should find a home for a couple of these.
jcr (1136), Jasper, Indiana, USA
Jul 5, 2009 750 ml. Amber-brown hazy body with a large, frothy tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, toffee, brown sugar and cookie. Also notes of clove, raisin, dark fruits. Hint of dust, cobwebs. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Medium to full body with a velvety texture and lively carbonation. Delicious beer, sweet, spicy, complex and interesting.
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