When ever I get a Belgium brewery that I can't fine information about I also wish I could speak Dutch, French, or German one of the languages of Belgium so I could learn more about the company. But with only my English I can't find too much reliable info about the company. I did find that Stille Nacht is "Silent Night" in German.
This beer starts with the Belgium beer aroma of spices and Belgium candi sugar. The pour is fizzy with almost no foam, and a steady flow of bubbles from the bottom, much like a Sprite. The color is amber, but cloudy with sediment floating in the beer. The sediment is shown in the closeup picture.
The beer starts sweet with a honey flavor, is quickly followed by a Belgium spice taste. There are fruity esters of bananas which is common with a Belgium beer. The mouthfeel is thick and smooth reminding me of honey and blends with the initial taste. The fizz from the pour only causes the beer to finish a bit dry, and doesn't add anything else. There is a light alcohol flavor to the beer but nothing strong enough to indicate this is a 12% beer. I am not getting any yeast flavors from the sediment, which is nice.
I really like this beer, the only Christmas characteristics are the extra sweetness and the high alcohol. I wonder if my bottle might be old since it had so much sediment and so little head. Regardless this is a fine beer.
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I would imagine it would be hard to search for "Stille Nacht" You'd only come up with German Christmas Carols.
Here's an excerpt from the De Dolle Brouwers website
http://www.dedollebrouwers.be/en/stillenacht.htm
"Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers, brewed for Christmas. It has the highest density of any Belgian beer (27°Pl). It has been boiling for many hours, brewed with pale malt with white candy sugar in the kettle. The Nugget hops gives an extra bitterness to balance the extreme sweetness due to the density. The taste triangle is completed with some acidity of the fermentation. It is a very interesting beer to age. We have samples of every bottling we have done so far and aging hasn't decreased the quality of this beer. Keep some samples at 10°C and mark the year on the cap with an alcohol marker. Cheers!!"
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