6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

A clear dark golden beer with a white head. Aroma of resinous bitter hops, citrus, caramel. Taste of piney bitter hops, spruce, caramel, moderate bitterness.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at the hotel Bottle share Geisfeld. Amber brown colour lasting white head. Hoppy aroma quite interesting fruit in mouth some sherbet. Quite interesting. Odd fruits. Some dryness on finish. Nutty. Good though. Orange and satsuma flavours as it warms up.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

At vbr. Pours clear amber. Smell is rather bitter. Taste is bitter, Sharp , ambermalts sEetness. Full bitterness. Nice

5.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Imported from my RateBeer account as La Franche Forte - IPA 70 IBU (by La Franche):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5

21/V/16 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ Erwin's Ponton Tasting - BB: IX/2017 (2016-611) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Cloudy amber orange beer, creamy beige to off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: grassy, some marijuana, metallic, bit floral. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: metallic, very bitter, even after everything we've had today, unpleasant, bit chemical, tastes like a very bitter pilsener. Aftertaste: is just bitterness and metallic. Nope, that's not how it's done.

6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Very fine & dense yellow-amberish tinted head over faintly veiled foxy-copper beer; textbook lace. Some hops, some mineral aroma; caramel; oxydized, old, even nearly rancid nuts. Caramel, again nutoil, and hoppy-leafy bitterness (oak, nettles, dandelion,...) Precious little IPA flavours. Warming up, musk. Oily, viscous, oozy feel. Much less carbonated than the very stable head suggests. Right. Send somebody over to California, now.

7

--- Beer merged from original tick of Forte on 26 Nov 2016 at 17:14 - Score: 7

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ WWT IV (or at least after a couple of hours of sleep), small sample. Slight hazy amber color, short frothy head. Aroma of slight caramel malt, toffee, some flowery hops, bit citrus. Soft bitter in taste, bit sweet toffee notes. Nice.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ morning after WWT IV. Clear amber color, soapy off-white head that diminishes quickly. Smell and taste malts, floral hoppyness, blossom, moderate bitter. Decent IPA.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

75cl bottle. Clear Amber with big creamy light orange head. Sweet malts with some caramel and sugared orange rind. Pine and lots of grapefruit. Taste is sweet at first with a strong bitterness coming through. Finish is strong bitter with lingering sweetness. Medium to full bodied. Nice stuff, especially on the nose.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

750 ml. bottle sampled @ Vini, Birre, Ribelli 2014. Murky amber, little bubbles. Nose is bitter fruity apple, cinnamon, maybe some Sorachi Ace? Neat; Taste unfortunately carries notes of rotting yeast, tad mould, bitter apple, bitter leaves. Medium body. Still okay but could have been more.