This beast is an 8.5% Belgian Golden Ale. Can a Golden Ale, normally a pillar of all that is crisp and refreshing, still cleanse the palette and quench the thirst while bearing such a high AHV?
The answer is yes. The Belgians have the beer game on lock.
Duvel pours a transparent but vibrant straw coloured yellow, with a full frothy head. Clean pale malts charge at you like a raging bull, before a sea of citric fruits cascade over the top. The alcohol is surpressed right up until the aftertaste, where it firmly dominates with a warm buzz.
Everything here is quite basic, the ingredients aren't complex, but everything feels like it has been examined under a magnifying glass. The overall feel still really qualifies as light, but everything has punch. With knuckledusters. For an 8.5% Golden Ale, knocking one down is far from a 7/10 split.
Nowhere near as creative or outrageous as many others, but it's a very clean cut beer that will quickly have you blurring at the edges if you've got a handful to drink.
8/10
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