StormBock

Flesje thuis gedeeld met familie. Donkerbruin bier met matig schuim. Aroma is caramelachtig. Smaak van caramel en fruit. Nasmaak is iets bitter.

Smooth malty slightly bitter roasted beginning. Very deep with dark dried fruit and caramel. Nice not too intense sweetness, brown sugar, malts, moderate bitterness. Nice and burned sugary ending, long aftertaste, sticky and rich. On the tongue remains a smooth and sweetish roasty sugary and not too sweet brown aroma. Fantastic!

Bottle from Bierkonig. Pours quite ruddy with a beige head. Aroma of warm malt. More or less medium body. Flavor is malty, with perhaps a bit of yeast, and some medium dark fruit. Pretty good flavor. Finishes just a little bit bitter.

330 ml. bottle @ home. Procured from ABC Beers. Apparently not some kind of bock – (sort of expected that when I bought this, I know, I know,…) – RB tells me that this is a SBA. Quite dark amber, little in the way of head. Nose is thick cloying, very sugary, light umami goop brown sugar, gravy, yeasty,… Taste is umami & metallic caramel goop, soy sauce, mushrooms (not in an optimal way, I freaking love mushrooms but you know what I mean), brown sugar, overly cooked dark umami fruits, very sticky & cloying herbs, light herbal bitterness in the back besides the cloying & umami features,… Thick metallic brown sugar body,… It is an honest go at Belgian brewing traditions but it doesn’t represent the best of Belgian brewing (in my opinion), too cloying, almost oddly too umami (a trait rarely found in Belgian beer granted, esp. outside of Alvinne (where it oddly does usually work), too herbal,… For me so far Texels is trying but is a bit of a bad characteristic middling affair so far, sorry. This is only my 4th beer by them. I have too admit that since becoming Vegan, I appear to have gain an odd opposition to umami beers. Not sure as to what that means.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit aroma. Sweetish malty caramel bitter flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy caramel finish.

Pours dark , hazy copperbrown . Small white head . Smell is sharp, metallic with a touch of sweetness . Taste is sweet, sugary , earthy and caramelly . Metallic. some forest leaves ( fall season scent kinda thing . ) Aftertaste is very intense on the caramelly side , but remains rather metallic .... bit too high carbo not as good as others I’ve had from this brewery . Doable on its own, yet still beneath average .

33 cl bottle from Jan Linders, Eindhoven, on December 12, 2014.BB 12.09.2024.Clear dark reddish brown color, small teal head. Sweet, dark dried fruits, alcohol scent. Roasted, toasted, alcohol, dried dark fruits taste. Roasted, toasted aftertaste. Fizzy mouthfeel, medium bitterness.

Pours brown with a lively tan head. Roasted aroma, tastes of alcohol and malt. Should age well.

Top-fermented Doppelbock (which actually means ’strong ale’ apparently?) from the only brewery of the Waddeneilanden, with a creamy, yellowish white head and deep bronze colour, clear. Aroma of caramel, milk chocolate, pine resin, iron, kahlua, raisins, banana, gingerbread; smooth candied fruits in the mouth, candi syrup, caramel malts in the background, chocolatey malts too, something metallic, long and hop bitterish finish with some liqueurish, warming alcohol. Not bad and fairly true to its style - if you consider this a top-fermented Dutch Bockbier, that is.