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Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

Bottle - 330ml. Nice copper body with average carbonation and a thick off-white frothy head. Good malty/hoppy aroma with bready, yeasty, and fruity hints. Alcohol is prefectly hidden. Its well balanced taste carries sharp hoppy flavors and yeasty notes. Ends with a long bittersweet, warming finish. Enjoyable.

Bottle, 33 cl. (Last sunday @ home, bought by Hopduvel) Dark redbrown with a beige head. Aroma = great; fruit, sweet, yeast. aroma. Medium to full body. Taste sweet malts, caramel, bit malts spice, some bitterness. Warm alcohol feeling is but you don’t know it’s 12 %. Good.

Happy Valendooms Day. 330ml egg-bottle, red cap. Poured in a Chimay glass. No idea of the vintage, except that I bought it in Dec06. The pour looks like the color of a Japanese Red Maple leaf. Thin pure-white creamy head. Aroma of plums, cherry wine, and watered down port. Flavor is a bit fruity. Kinda boring flavor wise, honestly. Creamy buttery mouthfeel. Lively carbonation. 12% ABV?! I sense no strong alcohol flavors, although the malt body is very well balanced. Finishes a bit on the dry side, may be from the long bottle conditioning... Here’s to Jo. Here’s to Beer, Beatles, and Bitches! <3

A hazy dark amber ale with a thick light moka head, with fine granulate yeasts dropping at the bottom of the glass. A pleasant brown sugar, with pleasant star anis, vanilla ice cream, coriander and rum. In mouth, tingly spicy mouthfeel, with sustained coriander, pepper, and sweet perfumey malt. The 12% is not present. Bieropholie imports, no BB date.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy amber/murky brown with an off-white head. Aroma os spices and overripe fruits, solid yeast note, mild alcohol presence. Flavour is medium dry with a little fruity sweetness. Light spice note and a mellow yeasty note too. Sligth woody note, wineous too. Ends with a lingering fruity note and rather dry. 12 % ABV can hardly be sensed, enjoyable.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy red. Thin white head, with dripping soapy wet lacing. Aroma is pretty strong with sour green apples. Spicy. Flavor is spicy cider, yeast, cloves. Distinct aftertaste of caramel apple. Not bad. Smooth and bitter. Alcohol really isn’t as prominent as I expected. Enjoyable overall.

Pours an absolute beauty, with a dense but not too massive mother-of-pearl head which sticks around ad infinitum and a dark caramel ruby body. Lacing is obscene, with literal clouds hanging on the side of my glass. Nose is nothing too amazing, with dark berries and iron oxidization, as well as a slight minty hop presence. Very nice body, very smooth and fililng, with characters of hazelnut, cinnamon, and nutmeg on the palate, along with ripe cherries and a zesty finish. You’d never guess this to be 12%. An interesting brew, if not immediately accessible.

Pours out a nice rusty, maple, cloudy glass. The head is delicate and thin, white and slowly fades. Nothing of real interest there. On the nose there is a very pleasantly sharp, pungent and boozy waft of caramel apples and fermentation of all sorts of things. When you drink it in you get a very soft and pleasant, blended wash of flavor. Buttery, and nutty, with whole wheat, hints of rye, ribbons of caramel and not a hint of alcohol. (and at 12% that’s a feat). It is a finely blended beer. The finish is pleasantly dry and has echoes of citrus. Love it, love it. Complex but approachable is the verdict.