Brouwerij Varenbroek Knots Natuurbier

Knots Natuurbier

 

Brouwerij Varenbroek in Reet, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.98
ABV: 9.0% IBU: - Ticks: 15
Knots Natural Beer is a traditional dark brown top-fermented beer with refermentation in the bottle. This beer is a creation of beer phenomenon Marc Knops who brews this beer with passion in his brewery in Reets according to personal taste. A Knots is almost black due to the caramel and roasting malts provides a malty and slightly roasted full flavor.
 

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Tried from Bottle on 20 Dec 2020 at 12:20


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy amberbrown colour, good frothy beige head, dissipating slowly, light lacing. Aroma roasted malt, caramel, maple syrup, molasses, raisins, dates. Taste light heavy sweet, slightly bitter, roasted malts, caramel, molasses, dried fruits. Medium body, sticky texture and mouthfeel, soft carbonation, lingering syrupy sweet aftertaste, spicy notes, dried fruit, not bad but rather messy brew, all in all a decent strong ale.

Tried from Bottle at De Achelse Kluis on 23 Mar 2020 at 12:00


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en licht zoet met iets van karamel een vleug drop en heel vaag iet van anijs.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Dec 2019 at 20:27


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle, thanks Tim. Nice stuff, dubbel like, light spice, rich, dark fruit, soft very nice. Toffee!

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:05


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

F: big, tanned, average retention. C: dark brown, hazy, opaque. A: malty, dark fruits, caramel, bit chocolate, dark cherries, cocoa, BE yeast. T: malty, dried fruits, chocolate, caramel, bit dark cherries, medium dry on the palate, medium to full body, medium carbonation, good balanced, enjoyed, sample from 0,33l bottle @ second day ZBF 2018.

Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2018 at 15:54


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Zythos 2018. Hazy chestnut with a small off-white head. Aroma of toffee and caramel with dried fruit and a yeasty touch. Aroma of toffee, dried fruit and yeast with notable alcohol.

Tried on 28 Apr 2018 at 11:13


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Quad by Varenbroek, bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Very violent gusher, beer spouted out of the bottle neck even with very careful opening at relatively high temperature. Thinnish, pale greyish beige head leaving a steady but thin rim around the edge and thin ’islands’ of foam in the middle; cloudy burgundy brown robe with mahogany hue. Rich, sweet, liqueurish and alcoholic aroma of red plums, ripe black cherries, Kirsch, ruby port, hint of red fruit-flavored bubblegum, sweet brown rum, kahlua, candied fig, white pepper, lots of caramel, damp earth, cinnamon, roses, straw, Belgian chocolates filled with cherry liqueur, banana, medlar, gravy, brown sugar, dates, cloves, varnish. Sweet flavor, lots of candied fig and soaked raisins, banana isoamylacetate too, light umami accent (gravy) and much stronger undercurrent of elderberry sourishness, sharp carbonation - overcarbonated, in fact - coarsening an otherwise full, rounded, ’fluffy’ mouthfeel. Honeyish and caramelly malt and candi sugar sweet middle, bit sticky due to a lot of residual sugars, estery fruitiness continuing and being accompanied by quite strong phenolic features (cloves); herbal hop bitterishness in the finish, too soft to counter the initial sweetness, followed by a strong, heating, brandy-like alcohol glow, feeling a bit wry all the way at the back but otherwise not interfering too much with the rest. Some lightly toasted malt bittersweetness (but more sweetness than bitterness) remains after swallowing, along with this alcohol warmth. Not too bad flavor-wise, too sweet and a tad too alcoholic for my liking perhaps, but still a bit too messy and lacking depth to compete with the great (trappist) quadrupels. And then there is the gushing issue, of course... Let’s give it the benefit of the doubt then.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Aug 2016 at 12:04


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Varenbroek Knots Natuurbier (by Brouwerij Varenbroek):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

14/VIII/16 - 33cl bottle from Kerstbierenfestival (Essen) @ home - BB: XII/17 (2016-846) Thanks to Rik for transporting the bottles!

Clear dark brown beer, big aery beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, caramel, dried fruits, bit metallic, spicy, liquorish, alcohol. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, spicy touch, dried fruits, liquorish, little roasted. Aftertaste: ripe banana, bit sour, hoppy notes, dried fruits, some black liquorish.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2016 at 16:04


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Deep amber to brown body. Lightly brown fizzy head. Lightly malty aroma. Heavily bitter, lightly sweet flavour. Surprising for a brown beer but in a good way. To remember.

Tried on 23 Apr 2016 at 14:20


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

At Kerstbierfestival 2015. Pours dark brown, OK white head. Smell is bit spiced, bitter, chocolatty. taste is mildly malty, bit bitter, sweet, not very natural, but still OK

Tried on 21 Dec 2015 at 15:28