Porlu
Huisbrouwerij Klondiker in Meulebeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.08
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Colour: Brown
Aroma: Formidable fruity-spicy nose
Taste: Fruity, light touch of milk chocolate, nice spiciness
Supported by a mild bitterness
Alcohol: 9%
Taste: After the first BBQ beer, there was of course still a brown edition
Hence the pun
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Bierridder (4318) ticked Porlu from Huisbrouwerij Klondiker 3 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Porlu from Huisbrouwerij Klondiker 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Strong dark Klondiker beer, bottle bought online somewhere. Mousy, pale greyish beige, audibly fizzing but fairly stable, medium thick head on a warm 'autumny' caramel brown beer with amber hue and strong sparkling throughout. Aroma of dried fig, brown sugar, rye bread, hard caramel, nutmeg, coriander seed, dried sage, old 'speculoos', hints of damp tree leaves, clove, dried blueberries, old rubber, clay, bubblegum. Sweet onset, brown-sugary with fruity aspects of fig, pear and medlar, sourish undertone with lively carbonation, though in a refined and therefore not annoyingly harsh way; rounded, slick mouthfeel, not betraying the ABV at all - on the contrary. Hard-caramelly and brown-bready maltiness with grainy edges, developing a toasty bitterish edge in the end; meanwhile some 'speculoos'-, nutmeg- and coriander-like spiciness is added, quite strongly so even, combined with a deeper, leafy hop bitter note and warming, 'jenever'-like alcohol. The spiciness lingers along with something rubbery and something bitter leaf-like. Not too bad, a tad too thin for this kind of beer perhaps and a bit unbalanced, but not dramatically so; in fact, this Scotch-like beer (rather than an 'abbey ale' as is mentioned on the label - I assume they mean quadrupel) may even be the most successful Klondiker brew I had to date.
DirDec (2083) ticked Porlu from Huisbrouwerij Klondiker 6 years ago
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Porlu from Huisbrouwerij Klondiker 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
24 November 2018. 5de Winters Bierfestival Waregem. Deputy Taster: Anke. Hazy dark brown with a lasting, small, foamy, off-white head; little lacing. Aroma of plum, cherry, raisin, 'poepegatjes' (red candy), cough syrup, mint, cold tea, clove. Taste is light to medium malty sweet, notes of caramel, syrup & plum, rather fruity; and light to medium spicy bitter, cinnamon & clove, slightly herbal too. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, lingering spices, dough & caramel, weird cough syrup-like effect; warming herbal liqueur alcohol. Medium body, slick/creamy texture, soft carbonation. Acceptable Belgian Strong, although it's lacking a bit more punch...
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Porlu from Huisbrouwerij Klondiker 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: medium, pale tanned, average retention. C: dark brown, hazy with some coppery tones against the light. A: malty, caramel, herbal, dried fruits, sweet spicy. T: malty, watery caramel, bit brown sugar, spicy, herbal, bit dried fruits, it is bottled in November so bit too young and I am sure will be better after one month or two, medium to full body, medium carbonation, a lot of coriander and spicy but for me ok, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from 5de Winters Bier Festival in Waregem.