This is my earliest memory of beer. I was in the shop with my dad, round about 8, and he grabbed this huge brown bottle. It was a 75cl bottle of Leffe and I was shocked to think he was having it all to himself. 13 years later I got my chance to try this ancient Belgium drink.
According to the marketing the Leffe brewery has been round since 1240 and if that is true of the recipe it must have been perfected by now? The beer does have the taste of the old, or at least the different, it is the most complex tasting lager I've had to date. It tastes of spices, almost liked mulled wine and does have a whiff of Christmas about it.
It is a lovely drink but it is not a beer you could chug one after the other as the taste can get a little boring after your second pint. This is not a summer beer but I will be buying it again when the weather gets frosty.
6/10
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