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

One of the liquor infused, limited editions of Broeder Jacob's Lazarus, this time with calvados; best before 2022, so I guess this was bottled in, what, 2017? Anyway: mousy, large-bubbled, egg-white, thinnish and somewhat loose head, diminishing and gradually breaking open, until only a thin ring around the edge remains; initially cristal clear, 'metallic' orange blonde beer with warm 'old gold' tinge, some thin but lively strings of sparkling rising up from the bottle of the glass, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of baked banana, candyfloss, calvados in a 'generic' way (without the refined and noble character I remember from it) and even whisky, blonde sugar, caramel candy, glazed pears, honey, clove and even a vague touch of chicken stock (4-vinyl-guaiacol), hint of soaking wet wood, very faint sulfuric accent (freshly struck matches). Sweetish onset, hints of peach, banana and ripe Doyenné pear, sourish undertone, minerally aspects adding a spring water-like effect but carbonation nevertheless is relatively soft; slick, smooth-edged, bit resinous body, caramelly maltiness with white candi sugar syrup adding a honeyish residual sweetness, very light peanutty touch faraway, leading to a drier finish with clove-like phenols and a dash of floral hop bitterness, but both are largely muted by a strong calvados effect, heating the back of the mouth and throat and indeed recognizable as calvados, but becoming a bit obnoxious and wry in the end. Underneath this overt booziness, a late but retronasally very clear, more elegant woodiness lurks, adding an extra layer of depth, though perhaps not quite enough to save the day... Like other variants in this series, the beer itself lacks body and complexity to undergo a wood chip plus liquor treatment, but the wood chips do come out nicely. The calvados is a bit too harsh for me personally, as if an actual shot of it was thrown into the glass - which physically is not that far from the truth. Not every single beer gets better with wood and liquor added and obviously this cheap shortcut will never have the same effect as actual barrel ageing either. A bit crude, straightforward and boozy, this remains what it is: a sweet and boozy tripel with a shot of calvados in it. Clearly an attempt to cash in on the whole barrel ageing hype without actually being barrel aged - a cheap alternative to it, basically - but in any case it shows a bit more complexity than the regular Lazarus, so enjoyable to a less educated palate, I suppose. I am left rather unimpressed, I expected just a little bit more here.

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

Bottle. Golden color. Apple and floral notes in the aroma. Honey. Malty sweet flavor with floral notes, a hint of caramel, Apple and calvados. Decent.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

75 cl. bottle shared with Suus, Hilde and Brent @ Alex and Suus. hazy amber with a white head. Malty aroma with some fruitiness. Sweet taste with a medium bitter finish. Cannot smell or taste the Calvados but I'm sure it's in there, maybe making the aroma stronger. Quite nice though.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Oranjegeel bier met mooie volle schuimkraag. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en licht zoet met iets van sinaasappel. Calvados kan ik helaas niet in de smaak ontdekken Desondanks best goed.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Fles gedeelt door Roelzie1986. Het is een oranje geel bier, flink schuimend tijdens inschenken. Het heeft een aroma van sinaasappelschil en hop. Weinig nasmaak.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Flesje thuis gedronken. Oranje geel bier, flink schuimend tijdens inschenken. Aroma van sinaasappelschil en hop. Nasmaak van hop maar is snel weg. De smaak van calvados is ver te zoeken.

Geen aangename geur, maar smak zit wel goed.

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

Sampled @ KBF 2016, Essen. Clear yellow golden color, average sized white head. Aroma is a bit faint, only lightly get some sweet notes. Flavor is more bitter than I would have expected especially given the light sweet hints in the aroma. Lightly some wood and a bit vinous as well.