UPDATED: DEC 24, 2021 Medium carbonation.very malty,sweet,roasty,bitter.some dryness in the end.spicy.smooth. Bottled:10/06/2021

UPDATED: OCT 31, 2021 Bottle 500ml at home. From Alko. Pours dark brown with thin beige head. Flavor has dark malts, dried fruits, dark chocolate, salty licorice,. Medium body, average carbonation, roasted finish. Original rating 9-3-8-4-15 from bottle 500ml at home 2009-12-22.

UPDATED: AUG 6, 2021 Bière brune bien foncée avec une fine mousse tirant légèrement sur le beige. Au nez, c'est déjà bien malté, torréfié. En bouche, on découvre des saveurs de caramel et chocolat noir. On devine également une légère amertume, qui n'enlève rien à la douceur générale. Je recommande à tout ceux qui ne sont pas fan des bières de Noël trop franchement portées sur les épices !

UPDATED: APR 20, 2021 This is a backlog rating from 2009 from a bottle at home, from notes. When I had this beer it was average to below average for the style and not something I wanted to have again or I just didn't get back to my notes because of my technology at the time, work and/or family. Words to describe this beer are sweet malts, caramel, dark fruits, spices, pretty good.

UPDATED: DEC 24, 2020 Bottle 33cl, a brown abd deep beer with giood head. Nose in dark malt and chocolate, some red fruits notes. Aroma on dark chocolate, roasted nuts, good malty basis as usual for nogne, finish on red fruit with praline notes. Godd body and robust.

UPDATED: NOV 12, 2020 Aroma of chocolate, nuts, leather, dried fruits, liquorice and hints of coffee, spices and wood. Dark brown to black with a creamy tan head. Medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter. Medium to full body with average to soft carbonation. Overall a very nice Strong Ale. A perfect Winnter Warmer.

UPDATED: NOV 7, 2020 Dark brown, small tan head. Honey, leather, dried fruits. Caramel, licorice and chocolate

UPDATED: SEP 30, 2020 This bottle is coming from Amstein, St-Légier. Enjoying it a lot after a long day in the forest and with my son at the Bouveret. The body is brown and black with an average carbonation, white foam. For me, it is a solid and winter ale. In my point of view, this one has the level of a trappist 10 of Rochefort. A lovely and complex beer or aromatic playing with the words. This beverage has a side of cherry, porto, mineral with a generous side of nuts, syrupy and malty, fruity and well balanced, alcohol present but it is well integrated, hop at the final, the porto of the beer, in a driest version.

UPDATED: SEP 25, 2020 2016 edition Nose is nuts, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee Aroma of coffee, licorice, demarara, malts Creamy, desserty, delicious

UPDATED: SEP 11, 2020 Bottle. Pours a black colour with a slight red tint, roast malt aroma with hints of winter fruit, the taste is medium bitterness and fruity with a dry bitter finish.