Malheur 12

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

Single bottle from a SAQ private import. Pours a slight hazy, deep golden-amber colour with a big frothy beige head, good retention and some foamy lace. Sour smell at first, but some notes of nuts and cardboard are added. Then, some dark fruits appear with some hints of candy. Taste of raisins with some roasted malts in the finish. All very light and no alcohol apparent. Mild bitterness does come up eventually. Goes down quite nicely and get better with time.

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

Dark brown (almost black) with brown foam head. Aroma is bittersweet, not to much caramel, rather hoppy. Taste is hoppy with some grass/flowers notes present. Nice bittersweet aftertaste. (Velp 201212)

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

A brown colored, red tinged beer. A small foamy textured, off white head rises briefly above. It settles into a barely notable lacing. The nose is light dark fruit. The tasting bolder burnt brown sugar and chocolate. A light-medium bodied beer. Decently carbonated.

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

Pours a rich, opaque dark-chocolate brown with a nice fine-bubbled light tan head. Aroma is malty and has an overtone of hard cider. Malty flavor has a strong fruity and brandy-like tone, as well as a hint of chocolate and just a whisper of sweetness. Texture is smooth and quite fizzy.

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

Pours out a dark bark brown .. lots of foam, great lacing for the abv.. . bosho! banana tree!! .. .delicious sweetness - dough, basement aromas, leather, bread, raisin, and a slight maple booziness .. . you won't eat our meat, but you'll glue with our feet .. . a decent belgian strong ..

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

A dark brown beer with a medium beige foam collar on top. Has a full, spiced aroma with some wood and brown sugar. Its texture is quite fresh, not at all acidic. The flavour is relatively sweet as brown sugar and quite spiced. The aftertaste is slightly fresh sweet. There's hardly no sense of the alcohol when tasting, but its effect kicks in quite soon after.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 6

This brew ppoured a dark brown with red highlights with a thick rocky tan colored head that dissipated to a thin cap. Aroma was sweet malt and dark fruit with a fair amount of spice. Mouthfeel was medium. Flavor started malty and dark fruits but as it warmed more spice came through including anise. I'm not a fan of black licorice so this turned me off. Alcohol was well cloaked.

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

Bottle date 13.11.10; Sampled July 2008
A careful yet vigorous pour easily produces a three-finger thick, lightly browned, dark tan colored head. The beer is very dark, deep amber, concentrated brown color that shows a brilliantly clear, dark ruby hue when held up to the light. The aroma is a mix of fruity plum, warming alcohol and sweet spice notes. The nose reminds me a bit of molasses rich ginger bread, some touches of cane-rum soaked raisins, dried figs, Brandy fusels, and fermented prune juice. Spicy notes of clove, a touch of ginger. Buried in the aroma towards the finish is a nice, toasty malt character that contributes some browned biscuit like notes. An interesting, very fruity aroma that definitely shows its 12% abv strength, but somehow manages to come off as being fairly mellow.

Sweet tasting with some toasted, dark malt flavors. This is quite light bodied, especially given the strength though I wouldn't quite call it quaffable; it is close though and could certainly be dangerous if drunk by someone not realizing its strength. The ample fruitiness continues through to the flavor of this beer with notes of prunes, caramelized raisins, dried figs and even a bit of cherry (in that order of intensity). Some dry cocoa notes come through in the middle, but then the sweet fruit notes seem to sweet the palate clean of this flavor. Noticeable alcohol flavors combine with the other flavors to produce notes of dark Rum, caramelized Brandy and a touch of some tongue numbing, spiced liquors. Speaking of which, flavors of clove, turpene like allspice, light ginger and some pepper notes play a sometimes substantial role as well.

An tasty beer, while it does not do a good job of hiding its substantial strength, it never gets hot or harsh and the alcohol seems to integrate with the other notes. The light body on this brew was also quite nice, never cloying or sticky, yet still rich, satisfying and a sipping brew.

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

It's hard to remember much about this brew except for the fact that I didn't care for it.

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

Dark brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma of yeast, sour fruits and orange marmelade. Marmelade, yeast and sweet malts in flavour. Positively sweet, but still very wellbalanced, and best of all, it hides the 12% ABV very well. Complex, and I bet this would age very well.