Bottle (from hetbiermoment). Pours dark amber with beige orange head. Aroma is sweet, sour, acetone, malt. Flavor is sweet and sour, malt, caramel, some fruits, some acetone/nail polish. Overall: drinkable, but feels off, and not in a good way.

Dutch Doppelbock shared by Craftmember, cheers! Strong gusher. Very thick, coarse, pale greyish beige, frothy head consisting of irregularly sized bubbles, hazy bronze robe, dark but translucent, with a copper red tinge. Aroma of caramel, peated whisky or even smoldering peat, dried cranberries, coriander seed, tea, fig, dried plums, iodine, ginger, stewed raspberries. Candied fruit sweetness in the onset, candied cherry and raisin, very sharp and numbing carbonation initially but calming down after a while, smooth, thick and resinous body, very soapy, with a caramelly and lightly toffeeish malt sweet middle acquiring a mildly bittering toasted edge in the end along with the announced smoky touch; herbal, bit tea-ish hops in the tail, providing some balancing bitterness but gently so, soapy aspect lingers (I suspect coriander) and warming, whisky-like alcohol rounds things off. Spicy and very likely ’coriandered’ - and hence seemingly Belgium-influenced - interpretation of the style, clean but to the point with a good balance of flavours, actually more reminiscent of Belgian dubbel or quad than German Doppelbock. Too bad for the gushing and overcarbonation, though.

Clear brown colour. Aroma and flavour have dark, sweet malts. Some raisin and some light spiced cake. Quite rich and full bodied.

330 ml. bottle split by two @ ’t Antwaerps Bierhuiske during Bronckhorster tasting. BBF 03-08-2018. Very dark red amber, little head. Nose is strangely big varnish-like sweetness with Coca-Cola, raisin & some sugar. Taste is boozy, low pleasant smoke but also quite excessive sweetness for me, weird plastic & varnish like taste, low smoke, smoked wood & more varnish,… Faintly cloying body & varnish. Too sweet, varnish taste is just odd but the smoke helps it a bit.

Near-explosive build-up of yellow-beige head, slowly retreating (if very stable - iron?), over fully opaque chestnut beer. Roasted, dry-caramelly, sweet-ish aroma, bit leafy. Drier taste than the nose suggested, maltflavours without much sweet, bit bready, bitter chocolate or cacao powder. Fresh leafy finish. Medium bodied, very creamy texture, foamy head, but slightly empty, certainly in the aftertaste. Nice, if not what I would expect from a Doppelbock.

Bottle, 8.5%. Murky dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, nut, little chocolate, little bread, wood, notes of sourness and dark fruit. Flavour is malt, caramel, dark fruit, chocolate, wood, nut and medium bitter.

Tap at Rootz Winterbier Festival. Pours dark brown with a medium off white head. Aroma of caramel, toffee, malt and light fruits. Flavour is over moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

Bottle. Dark brown pour. Aroma of ripe red fruit, whiskey, caramel and malt. Flavor caramelised malt, boozy red fruit and a little iron. Nice bok.

Draught (PINT Bokbier Festival 2015, Amsterdam) - Hazy copper red. Raisins, prunes and blackcurrant in the aroma. Fruity, malty, moderately hoppy and slightly sweet taste with blackcurrant, cocoa and roasted malt detected. Tastes like a strong mild.