Double Enghien D'Hiver
Brasserie de Silly S.A.

Copenhagen 27/4 2021. 33 cl bottle from Beerdealer web-shop. Very red label with Brasserie de Silly's Coat of Arms and the name of the beer.

Pours unclear golden yellow with a big white head. Bubbly. Settles as thin layer of foam almost covering the surface of the beer. No lacing to speak of.

Aroma is medium intense with a sweet malty odor mingling with sugary and yeasty fumes. Caramel and toffee. Brown sugar and canned pears. Musty basement.

Medium strong carbonation. Medium thick, soft, slightly viscous, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a stronger bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Lingers for a while. Finish is fairly dry.

A sweet Belgian nose and a decent bitter aftertaste. Not the worst way to get through the winter.

Bottle at The Situation, served in a trappist glass.
Hazy golden colour, small head with medium retention creamy lacing.
Aroma of candied fruits, clove and malts.
Medium to full body, oily texture, active carbonation. Sweet finish.
Taste of candied fruits and cloves.
Just OK.

L- Oh boy, take this pour u-l-t-r-a slowly. My bottle was chilled and rested for days. I began the pour slowly and with my usual clean glass appropriately angled over. Boom! Instant 1/2Cm of beer and c12cm of foam. I rested the bottle for 5mins and, in brief, now have most of the bottle decanted. Difficult and not ideal when gagging for a first beer on a Friday pm!
S- I seem to get a conifer wood scent here, aromatic.
T- The aromatic^ sense follows right through into the taste. It's quite pungent, reminds me of conifer resin. That latter note sits at the front of a quite trad Belgian fat, bright and pungent base that then has a bright hoppy lick in the finish.
F- Big bold with meaty power balanced by appropriate hop-levels. It is balanced, it's very well done.
O- Something a bit special and different to start the session, Despite the pour I'd very happily buy this again, but I think I'd be drinking it from outsized glasses another time.
330ml bottle BB: 24/02/2022. Bought from BeersofEurope/UK for home delivery.

Review^ written before finding the below info:
'The brewery website describe this beer thus: 'Top-fermented beer, tripel type, re-fermented in the bottle. This Christmas beer has a taste that alternates between fresh and warm, always with a pleasant, slightly bitter undercurrent. From the first tasting you experience a rounded taste and the tingly sensation of vanilla with a hint of pepper.'

ps I'll create a new listing for this. It's a Christmas Tripel and 9% ABV, but it's not the pre-existing Enghien Noel Tripel 9% entry. Christmas is named or illustrated nowhere on the bottle. This lable is a more simple claret-red colour with white and gold text and a coat of arms.