Zeven Zonden Invidia
Hugel in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: The Brew SocietyBelgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular
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Score
7.66
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Dit gastronomische degustatiebier is ongezien complex. Chocolade, rijpe en gedroogde vruchten en tertiaire aroma’s zoals bosgeuren zijn duidelijk waarneembaar. De smaak en nasmaak is extreem rond en versmolten. Dit bier is een stout, en dankt zijn bitterheid voornamelijk door het gebruik van geroosterde mout.
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thanatosti (4472) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij Culemborg. Dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma of roasted malts,dark fruits, sweet chocolate and some hops. Taste is on the sweet side which is fitting for this kind of Belgian strong ale. Mouthfeel is creamy and finish is really long and soft. Very nice beer.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
F: medium to big, tanned, average retention. C: dark, opaque. A: dark malt, chocolate, liquorish, cocoa, dark dried fruity, coffee ground, chocolate cookies, toffee. T: smooth dark malty, chocolate, cocoa, cecemel, caramel, dark dried fruity, mocha, liquorish, vanilla, light earthy, hint of tobacco in aftertaste, full body, medium carbonation, very good and interesting brew, fully enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
@ De Geus, Gent. Dark brown, brown foam. Sweet, lots of spices, chocolate, vanilla, caramel. Full body, medium carbonation.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Zwart bier met weinig bruingekleurd schuim. Smaak is krachtig, bitter, hoppig met iets van bittere chocolade, mokka, port, ietwat rozijn en pruimen. Smaak blijft lang hangen. Echt een bier om van te genieten op een regenachtig dag.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Very dark brown with thin head. Lots of dark malts in the aroma. Flavour has lots of bittersweet malts and some fruity sugars too. There’s a constant background taste of dark chocolate. Nice.
MusingAnorak (11819) ticked Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 9 years ago
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Willems Grobbendonk. Thanks Jacob for picking this up. Pours nearly black with a thick creamy beige head. Roast, Dark fruit, chocolate. A Woody touch. Charcoal. Full bodied. Tasty sipper!
kajser27 (3009) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Almost black colored, small+ tan creamy head, nice lacing. Aroma is toffee, dark fruits, licorice, coffee and chocolate notes. Taste is medium to very sweet malt, burnt sugar, chocolate and coffee with dark fruits and licorice, some rather light alcohol with alcoholic warmth, medium coffee liqueur bittersweet finish and lasting aftertaste. Full bodied, soft carbonation, sticky-creamy.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
One of the seven ’indiscretions’ this beer company intends to make over a seven year period - frankly, one of the weirdest beer projects going on in Belgium at the moment, if you ask me. Brewed at Gulden Spoor, bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. This is apparently the ’invidia’ (envy) version... Enthusiastic foam formation upon opening the bottle, almost gushing; thick and frothy, creamy, dense, rocky, pale yellowish beige head, retaining very well considering the ABV; colour is a hazy dark bronze bordering on black. Aroma of freshly cut nettles, baker’s chocolate, ripe walnuts, earth, Scotch whisky, bubblegum (gaining strength as it warms up), toasted bread, dry moss, old cloth, hints of coffee grounds, brown sugar, quite a lot of (artificial) iron probably hauling from the chocolate in this particular case, rye bread, old fashioned cocoa powder, old cloth and cardboard, dried banana slices. Some candied, concentrated sweetness in the onset, candied dates, raisins and dry banana, but not overly sweet or cloying; the chocolate (effectively applied here but I don’t know in which form) is apparent from an early stage. Carbonation is fairly soft but perhaps still a bit too strong for the style, somewhat distracting from the actual flavours and a bit ’rough’, but softening as the bottle progresses. Thick, oily, fatty, layered, deep malt character, caramelly, nutty and very chocolatey, the latter being reinforced with actual chocolate - which, I could swear, is palpable, as if someone melted a milk chocolate bar and added it to this beer. A light sourish touch keeps the flavours in place, and so does a deep, leafy, sedate hop bitterness in the finish; a glow of warming, kahlua-like alcohol appears in the very end, accompanying the continuing chocolate and caramelly malt sweetness with a slightly wry edge to it, but not becoming overly astringent. The aroma is a bit weird and even seems rather uninviting at first, but once I got used to this, I enjoyed it a lot, without any envy. I wonder about the period of time this ’brewery renter’ will take to develop his entire project - and I cannot help feeling a bit gloomy about it, also considering the religious intentions... This particular edition, though, is a very enjoyable, rich Belgian strong, one to sip slowly next to the open fire or something; the usage of actual chocolate, however, seems a bit ’easy’ and in my opinion, it would have been a better idea to use chocolate malts and turn this into a real imperial stout (though I would still fail to see the link with jealousy then). In this form, this is a strong Belgian Scotch- or Belgian Christmas beer-like ale, lightly burnt but mostly rich, malty and sweet, with an extra addition in the form of chocolate. I would therefore not recommend judging this as an imperial stout - it does not even claim to be one. Perhaps we can classify it as a kind of dark Belgian style barley wine? Does this even matter with strong Belgian ales?...
Kermis (23416) reviewed Zeven Zonden Invidia from Hugel 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Pours near black with a beige head. Aroma of roast, dark fruits, coffee, toffee, leather, marzipan, licorice and dark chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a big marzipan/licorice/dark chocolate palate. Light full bodied with soft carbonation. Like a very strange Belgian RIS.