July 2014 Cellar Thread

Late start on this and I am as guilty as everyone else, probably moreso...

Poured from a 750 ml brown bottle into a Chimay goblet. Bottled on Sept 18 2009 on front label.
Lighter than expected chestnut. Major fruity aroma here with fig, plums, red grapes, currants, bananas, and orange marmalade all combining with some fruity yeast esters with a mild, phenolic, clove character to create a huge malty blast. The flavor also assaults with malt, first with dark fruits like red and purple grapes, figs, cherries, plums, and raisins, all dosed with a heavy dose of rum-infused honey. Hops provide herbal bitterness. Yeast esters are banana and lightly apricot, peach. This is a malt wallop all the way, vinous without getting too grapey -- a masterful beer all-around. Silky smooth with nowhere the 12% detectable anywhere. Sumptuous feel overall.
This was indeed a good one to put away -- wow -- huge dark fruit character with drinkability. Sumptuous and decadent but not over the top -- wonderful. I wish I had bought more.

 

Very funny corksuckers -- shitty job on the cut and paste and the thread search both. Beer is Victory Twelve. Cheers.