Biere De Noel
Brasserie Moulin D'Ascq

A 75cl corked and caged brown bottle front label has a red sparkling sky with silhouettes of windmills (moulins in French). Best before July 2008, drank March 2007.

Poured into two Gordon's Thistle glasses, it is an amber, terracotta orange colour , a slight haze, but not cloudy, with a good white head.

Yeast and hop aromas, but not much else, some biscuity malts maybe.

Fairly sweet taste, caramel and seaside rock sugars, a hint of hops comes later, but no bitterness at all.

Dryness appears and stays after the liquid has left your mouth, strange mix of flavours arrive with the dryness, citrus fruits and sweet toffee apples together.

This is one strange Christmas beer, at 2.75 Euros a bottle it is OK, but it is not one of the best I've had. It's one saving grace is the last inch of beer I left in the bottle from the initial pouring, I had that as an afterthought. It came out a cloudy oatmeal mess, this heady mix of sediment and a little beer still had not great aroma, but the flavours already mentioned came at me in waves, if I am ill tomorrow, I'll mention it on here, otherwise the whole review stands!