Bottle 0.33l at home, Vantaa. Thanks MonsterMagnet! ~2 years old. Colour is slighly cloudy brown with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Licorice, tar, smoke, some bread, dryness and malts. Pretty soft! Licorice dominates but quite enjoyable.

Bottle from a Mitra shop in Lelystad. Smoked and wood-aged double Bock from this interesting Dutch craft beer company. Medium thick, regularly shaped, moussy, off-white head consisting of tiny and tightly packed bubbles, quite stable on the edges; deep brownish amber robe, translucent, bronze-ish with coppery hue. Aroma of sticky butterscotch, Kirsch, dry earth, wodka-soaked cherries, wet hay, soggy brown bread, wet oak (including something vaguely vanilla-like), damp tree leaves, subtle smoked wood, dried banana, old cloth, moist ginger powder, subtle hints of tobacco, thyme and mustard seed. Fruity onset, sweetish pear, apricot and blackberry with perfectly matching, counterbalancing sourishness, spritzy carbo (a tad too sharp for this style perhaps), minerally; nutty malt middle, restrainedly sweetish and caramelly with a softly bittering toasted edge, dried fruit aspects lingering, spicy phenols in the end, full mouthfeel, dryish. The basic dryness is accentuated in the finish by a confident dosage of spicy, earthy and leafy hop bitterness, the subtle smoky touch adding further spiciness but not accelerating into smoked bacon flavors, drying woodiness (quite a lot of tannins actually) and, eventually and correctly positioned, an afterglow of gin-like alcohol. Rich, dryish beer, fruity in a ’dried’ kind of way with certain Belgian (phenolic) aspects here and there; in spite of the added flavors of smoke and wood, the emphasis is still on nutty, dryish but round maltiness as is the case in the best German Doppelbocks. Exemplary for its style even though atypical.

Bottle (from het biermoment). Pours red amber with beige head. Aroma is nice smoke, sausages, malt, slight alcohol. Flavor is sweet and bitter, smoke, malt, dryness, caramel, some grains, some oak. Finish is dry bitter with some booze warmth. Overall: very good.

Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’s place. Thanks rayaron. Hazy amber. Aroma of malt, caramel, nice smokiness, wood. Sweetish flavor, malty, caramelly, smoky, with some wood, and a nutty note. Medium-bodied. Nice.

Pint Oak Aged Beer Festival 2015 @ Stadsbrouwerij De Pelgrim, Rotterdam. Snoeperig zoet zacht en rokerig. Backlog from 2015/03/15.

Tap at Arendsnest, 19th November 15. Quite spicy, lots of dark fruit. Clean and easy to drink. Not bad.

On tap at PINT Bokbierfestival 2015. Clear, dark brownish amber with a big, creamy, tan head. Sweetish-malty, smoky aroma of smoked ham, campfire, brown sugar and caramel. Sweetish, smoky-malty taste of smoked ham, campfire and brown sugar, followed by a short, slightly bitter and smoky finish with notes of coffee. Medium to full body, creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Good!

330ml Bottle - Dark brown with red tinges. Ash, beech, ham and dried fruit in the aroma. Smoky, fruity and moderately hoppy taste with beech, raisins, ash, caramel and some faint soapy notes.

3.9.2015 Bottle by my Secret Santa MrHangover. Thanks! Aroma raisins, dried fruits, caramel. Clear brown colour. Taste has got quite intense alcohol right from beginning. Then there is smoked ham and caramels.not bad but simply too much alcohol, it ruins the drinkability for me as well. 6 4 6 3 12 - 3.1 Rerate - Bottle at a tasting with buddies Cuso, Rubin77, Wendigo. Alcohol only very lightly present, complementary intensity. Rather high sweetness, but overall balance is good with okay drinkability. Moderate smoke presence, lightly solventy too, which I associate rather with the smoke though. Quite good one.