Lazarus Calvados Infused (2016)
Broeder Jacob in Wezemaal, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Belgian Style - Strong Ale Special
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Score
6.61
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Infused with Coeur de Lion Selection - Christian Drouin. Lively aroma of fresh-cut apple. Light, with hints of lemon and steel. Finishes with flavour of apple seeds and crushed peppercorns.
We put the Calvados in a large barrel and add American roasted and toasted oak flakes. After 3 weeks this mixture is ready to be added to the beer in the bright beer tank. This way we obtain a maximum performance of the used liquor strengthened with the taste of the used oak flakes to enrich our beer.
We put the Calvados in a large barrel and add American roasted and toasted oak flakes. After 3 weeks this mixture is ready to be added to the beer in the bright beer tank. This way we obtain a maximum performance of the used liquor strengthened with the taste of the used oak flakes to enrich our beer.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Moi qui pensais en avoir fini avec ces Lazarus, et bien non, la Calvados Infused s'était cachée pour mieux réapparaître. Forcé de constater que le temps ne l'a pas bonifié. J'ai cherché le calvados pendant 33 cl sans le trouver. C'est donc finalement quelque peu soulagé que je clos ce chapitre. En verre, nous sommes sur un blond orangé surmonté d'une mousse blanc cassé de 2 cm. L'effervescence, fine est poussée. Le nez, âpre est sur le candy, les céréales avec une levure aux accents de banane relativement présente. Pas plus de calvados à la dégustation avec un cocktail aromatique brouillon, âpre et des épices qui s'y ajoutent. Une acidité trop marquée est également présente à l'attaque. La deuxième bouche, d'une bonne présence est davantage marquée sur le malt et les épices. L’arrière-bouche est linéaire. L'alcool, à 8,5% est quelque peu agressif mais reste correct. Le final, où l'on retrouve de l'acidité n'est pas très agréable. 4 variantes, 4 ratés.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jul 2020
at 14:08
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2019
at 21:47
6.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2019
at 14:00
7/10
Geen aangename geur, maar smak zit wel goed.
Tried
from Bottle
at
De Appel
on 19 Apr 2017
at 23:27