Sacred Heart XII
Brasserie La Débauche

33 cl bottle, shipped to my flat on order from the brewery. Poured into a taster’s snifter, there is zero foam. Dark amber brew reveals bright red tones when lit. Decent legs, but no lace.
Nose is ethynol up front, molasses and prunes follow.
Taste doesn’t deliver pecans, pie, nor much pastry. It’s hot and sticky as a July afternoon in Miami. Quite sweet. Chocolate pops in as this all-evening sipper warms up.
Mouthfeel is dense but not thick. Low carbonation with some prickles.
Overall, wish Debauche didn’t claim ‘pecan pie’ for this massively boozy Eisbock.

Pours a deep copper, almost black syrup. No head.

Pecans, pastry spices and molasses on the nose. Big alcohol presence.

There’s an immediate burn that gives way to cooked sugar and some pastry spice. Extremely sweet overall. It resembles an Eisbock more than anything else; not quite a ‘pecan pie’, though that’s probably to its advantage. Oddly enough, the heavy alcohol content helps to balance the beer out.