De Dolle Stille Nacht

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

330ml bottle from Secret Santa in 2012
Pours clear dark amber with floaters, medium sized beige head, lots of lacing. Aroma of sweet malts, caramel, raisins and dark fruit. Taste is sweet, caramel, honey and raisins
Nice and tasty on a cold night.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

33cl bottle at Dulle Griet, Gent. Pours slightly hazy deep golden with some sediments and a fairly modest head. Complex somewhat earthy and fruity aroma with notes of dried fruits, Belgian yeast and spices. Sweet, earthy and surprisingly well balanced with complex flavours and a certain dryness in the finish. Full bodied with fairly soft carbonation. Heavy on the sugar and the alcohol, but well integrated and surprisingly well integrated.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

100th Belgian Strong Ale rating.---White cap with 2006 and 12% stamped on it. I see a good quarter inch of dark clumpy floaties all congregating at the bottom of the bottle. Wow. Pours copper with gold edges and thin off white head. The first pour didn’t pull any of the sediment into my glass. The aroma is a smooth blended mixture of cherries, apples, raisins and then dark grapes. Wow, simply amazing flavor. It begins with a solid pulse of raisins, cherries and apples before a wave of brown sugar, faint toffee and a bit of sweet unfermented honey crashes in. The sugar sweetness approaches a creamy sensation as it mixes with persistent notes of dark grape jam and cherry compote. Into the finish it attempts to dry out but smooth slick dark fruity sweetness and a sense of toffee hang on and create an even yet rich finish and after taste. Damn fine brew with no sense at all of the huge ABV.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Bottle: Poured a coppery brown with white head. Nice fruit aroma. Taste was slightly sweet but nice dry smoked oak aged malt, left with nice zing.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

There is a place to write bottled date on label corner, but it says instead "see cap". You look on cap and written 2020x (the x probably means a shitty year - yes, 2020 :P). Crazy amounts of tiny bubble carbonation, very active. Amber, orange colour with golden highlights and very tiny particles through it. Fairly creamy, warm off-white head, great retention and some creamy-foamy lacing. Alcoholic, warming nose with some nice spices, orange notes and Belgian yeasts, sugars. Hints of bananas from light wheat, also sliding in the taste. Pretty rich with the alcohol burning the sweetness. The dry finish helps, and the lingering is nicer because of this, than the beginning. Even some decent notes of dark fruits in there. Silky, oily mouthfeel at the start. This one becomes much better as it breathes. A nice warming experience on this very cold winter night.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours hazy apricot with a thick eggshell head. Aroma delivers fresh malt, fruity and subtle butterscotch notes. Flavor offers fruity, yeasty and fresh malt tones, though the butterscotch seems to disappear. Mouthfeel presents decent fizz and body. Happy any old holiday!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

@ Kerstbierfestival Essen (B) - Dark yellow, off-white lacing. Light aroma, strong barley taste. Fruit tones in aftertaste, as well as some bitterness. (Essen 201612)

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Gift from my wife, 330 cl bottle pours an attractive orange with a quick burst of carbonation and minimal head. Alcohol forward aromas with a standard Belgian funk present. Incredibly smooth and full bodied with nary a hint of the high ABV. Notes of Belgian candy sugar, raisins, plums, and bready malt. There's nothing like an impeccable Belgian, and stille nacht certainly is tremendous. Slowly sip to notice the nuances as it warms, one to revisit again and again.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

330 ml bottle, from Ølbutikken, Copenhagen. ABV is 12%. Deep golden colour, some floaties. Huge white head. Strong and complex aroma of spices, Belgian ale yeast, brown kandij sugar, caramel, oak and alcohol. Very sweet flavour, but still with a refreshing character. Strong and complex fruity and spicy notes, hints of oak, decent hops in the finish. Very enjoyable.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

99 on RB a bit overrated. it's a better than average ale, fairly standard for the bsa style. spice and fruit and alcohol in the nose. yeasty flavor, with plums and other fruits, with a sweet, dry yeasty finish. alcohol shows a little, but this is a good golden ale overall.