Ardwen Hop's Cure
Société Ardennaise De Brasserie

Amber colour, clear. Beautiful, high white foam, creamy consistency, long-lasting. Coats the glass very nicely and even circulates.
Aroma sweet malty, spicy (pepper) and herbal, yeasty. The aroma is so engaging that it stimulates the salivary glands to work intensely.
The taste is caramelly sweet with a dry, spicy finish. However, the pleasant bitterness dies down quite quickly to give way to sweetness.
Alcohol well hidden. Saturation high, boozy. Texture slightly rough. Long, sweet aftertaste through which the spicy bitterness shines through.

 

Review: 0,33l brown bottle of Ardwen Hop’s Cure: 8.0% vol.

Massive, massive white frothy head on the pour. Really big, a lot of carbonation, all alive and fizzing away. Head is far too big.

Otherwise the colour is amber. Head maintains very well, of course, with a lot of lacing.

Eventually settles down, looks much better once calmness kicks in.

Second bottle, get a very white frothy head, and more cloudy in appearance, dark golden.

Is a good-looking beer for sure in that its head maintains, good bit of lacing and deep in colour.

Smells good, very fruity, very hoppy, strong yeasty smell on the nose, all nice

On the taste I found it very hoppy, a very deep tasting hoppy beer that was very strong on the stomach. Too bitter, and too spicy. Get the roasted malts and the caramel, but the hops kill the other flavours in this beer.

Bit too intense in the taste for little old me, not pleasurable at all, very difficult to drink.
Also gave me a slight head the next day!

 

Poured from a bottle to a snifter
A - Dark gold with a very smooth head and a little bit of life at the bottom
S - Caramel malt and piney/leafy hops with a strong peppery alcohol scent
T - Not as strong as the smell made me think
M - Pretty flat
O - A good tripel but nothing extraordinary.