Säuerlich würziger Antrunk, helles Malz. Spritzig, ziemlich intensiv. Gelungen. 10/10/10/10//11

Bottle from Belgiuminabox shared with Craftmember. Irregular, moussy, pale greyish white head leaving a bit of lacing and dissolving in the end under the influence of the alcohol; colour is a hazy orange amber, completely ochre ’mud’ with deposit. Aroma instantly attacks the nose with sharp brandy- to even methanol-like alcohol, after which other impressions appear: damp dishcloth, mouldy orange, joiner’s glue, fig, chlorine, roasted hazelnut, wet wood, dried porcini, turnips, mouldy leaves, overripe papaja, cigarette tobacco, red apple. Sweet onset, marmelade, strawberry, mango, candi sugar sweetness lingering, sourish accents of gooseberry or redcurrant, soft carbo, smooth and strangely lacking a bit of body, honeyish and remaining marmelade-like sweet, finish adds mostly wry alcohol, clearly badly hidden and even rising up retronasally, but little of the wood drought I was hoping for; I get a deep, late, brief earthy hoppiness too, but not adding (enough) bitterness. Very earthy with deposit too, big starchy yeastiness; a kind of raw beet sugar sweetness lingers. This is a very weird concoction indeed, I guess you’ll either like it or hate it, but to me this lacks the finesse, elegance and ’nobility’ I expect from a 14% barley wine. Not the first time this brewery promises a lot but ends up disappointing me, and it will probably not be the last time either.

Small greyish-cream head, dwindling over orangeish amber beer. Brandy jumping out of the glass, and also marked oranges+alcohol, as in Mandarine Napoléon, but also Sangria. Plastic, solvent, chemical flavours. Fruity - again oranges, yes - but again as a artifical addition to fruitsweets. Not pleasant. Thin, alcoholic (but..), somewhat burning MF. Feels quite carbonated but absolutely doesn’t look the part. Kraken? Little scuttlefish, yes. And I have some serious doubts about this claimed ABV.

Pours unclear orange. Small white head. smell is sweet, thick, mildly sharp. Taste is boozy, grainy, bit sweet. rqther thick MF, good carbo. I like this one more than Leviathan (obviously, I don’t like peat) but where the leviathan far surpassed my expectations; this one did not even meet my expectations. An OK beer, just had a bigger idea of it.