Kandeleir Winterbier
De 3 Horne Bierbrouwerij

Winterbier brewed for the Zomerlust Cafè of Tilburg.
Dark orange color, with a lot of floating chunks, not too thin.
A beautiful white head.
Malty smell, warm, with light notes of fruitiness. Something spicy. Fennel?
The taste is quite similar, malty notes and light fruitiness, and again spices.
It warms, but not too much.
Well done beer, with the alcohol well hidden.

An amber beer, slightly murky with an almost immediate collapsing head.

Smell is spicy, there is coriander and orange peels in here which give the beer a great smell. The grapes are a bit tannic and add a winey smell. Bitterness is medium and malt is sweet and dextrinous.

Taste is incredibly spicy at first sip, then the bitterness comes through which balances the sweet spices of grapes and orange peels. The spiciness is also coming from the yeast. The grapes add a nice astringent taste which makes it taste like wine. The malt is sweet and dextrinous and this beer must be all malt. The alcohol is well hidden and drinkability is good.

Got this beer from the excellent tiny beer stall, UTOBEER, in Borough Market, London. Bottle-conditioned beer in 330ml slim brown bottle, bottled in Dec. 05, without a best before date apparently~~

A: in a broad-rimmed goblet it pours a cloudy dark amber hue, coming with an off-white, spongey and foamy head which settles fast but leaves a lingering, 0.5cm thick layer of foam; fierce carbonation.
S: candyish malts with lightly caramel, sour-sweet fruitiness with a touch of strawberries+prunes, while the residual note of maltiness is a bit like pils malts' sour-sweetness. Overall quietly fruity with malty overtone, but very understated.
T: extra-creamy bubbly texture upfront, followed by strong candyish and caramel malts, along with rounded exotic fruitiness mixed of pineapple and orange; more candyish flavour and a deepening yeasty flavour to follow, lending a sweet as well as lightly tangy touch to the dominantly sourly-sweet fruitiness in the foreground. Good lingering aftertaste of fruits mixed with lovely, smooth yeastiness, while the candyish maltiness leaves only a hint down the palate.
M&D: medium-bodied and full-flavoured, pretty easy to approach, as its supposedly strong alcohol touch hides only too well in the background. Overall this is a well-made strong beer, but could be even better balanced with ageing. The one I'm drinking, bottled this month, is simply too young to be fully appreciated!