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Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

5.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Amber colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour are strangely very orangey. Too sweet and really iut of balance.

6.5

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

The amber in this very classically conceived, streamlined series of Diksmuide beers, steinie bottle from De Centrale there. Very frothy and even rocky, pillowy, egg-white, densely creamy and very tightly, 'papier maché'-like lacing, closed and stable head, clear, warm peach-hued orange blonde beer, near amber indeed, with lively visible sparkling fiercely rushing upwards from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of marmalade, melting butter (clear diacetyl), candy apple, bubblegum, cooked cloth (clear pasteurization!), honey, Plasticine, coffeecakes, cream, touch dried flowers, faint whiff of iron, apricot jam, candied orange peel. Sweet onset, very clean and quite straightforward, smoothly edged, lively carbonated but in a refined, non-stinging way, honeyish and creamy middle, caramelly, with banana, candy apple and candied orange aspects lingering from start to finish; almost buttery mouthfeel, very smooth and round, gliding down effortlessly whilst leaving behind outspoken residual sweetness and a light, late and quite volatile hop bitterishness, floral and a tad grassy, but washed away by the sweetness and butteriness of this weird little beer. A light metallic effect continues to subtly vibrate. Cristal clear, sweet, easy and smelling of pasteurization: this is very clearly modelled after mass-marketed industrial beers, I guess these Nachtraafbrouwers have the intention to compete with AB InBev, Heineken and the like - but in a time when creative 'microbrewing' has developed into a world-encompassing hype, I highly doubt whether trying to imitate industrial beer for the masses is commercially the best choice, contradictory as that may sound. Very smooth, way too smooth to be interesting in fact, like the quadrupel in this series; I'm beginning to fear for the two other Nachtraaf beers I have remaining in my collection.

6.5

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

Bottle at home. Amber color indeed, clear, full sized white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, sweetish, dark fruit lightly, pear, a slight touch of sugar. Medium body, decent carbonation. 7-3-6-3-13.

6.3

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

33cl bottle (6,5%) from Prik&Tik Kampenhout. F: big, tan, good retention. C: amber, light hazy. A: malty, caramel, mellow fruity, orange and sweet orange peels. T: sweet malty, caramel, orange, mellow fruity, medium body and carbonation, bit more on the sweet side, not such disaster for me, partially enjoyed.

4.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Nachtraaf Speciale-Amber (by De Nachtraafbrouwers):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 2.3/5

27/X/18 - 33cl bottle @ Poperings Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2018-1613) Thanks to my wife for driving me around today!
Clear dark orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nothing but orange peel, orange peel and more orange peel. Smells more like Triple Sec than like a beer. It's hard to believe that Van Steenberge would brew something like this... Maybe it's made by De Graal, where client brewers are allowed more artistic freedom? MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: all orange peel, orange maramalade, nothing else. Totally unbalanced. Aftertaste: just more of the same, orange peel, sweetish, slightly bitter finish. What else to say?