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

Verhuisbrouwerij’s latest creation, a ’massieve ale’ aged on whisky-soaked oak chips, from a 75 cl bottle with crown cap. Very moussy and dense, cream white, membranous lacing head over a dark but translucently bronze beer with mahogany brown hue. Aroma of toffee, stewed pear, damp tree leaves, wet dog, water-diluted cocoa, banana, earth, wet wood, peach, candied fig, melting brown sugar, black tea, whisky - but the latter in a generic alcohol sense from the beer itself, much more so than from the actual whisky effect, which is all but unnoticeable. Sweet flavour with a lot of residual candi sugar, pear, blue plum, banana fruitiness, sourish brambleberry-like undercurrent, soft carbo, full and very ’fluffy’ mouthfeel. Nutty and caramelly malt sweet middle with a wheaty sourishness to it, a bit ’woody’ and vaguely chocolatey as well, leading to a powdery yeasty-bready finish with an earthy hop bitter touch to it, as well as some tannic wood, drying and even a little bit vinous, followed by warming alcohol - whisky-ish, but again in a very vague and generic way, without actual whisky taste; the candi sugary sweetness lingers through this all and thus remains the dominant factor. Seeing some of the other reviews below, I can only conclude that this is either another batch, or it has significantly improved with over half a year of aging on it, because the beer coming out of my bottle is relatively well-balanced and well-executed, albeit a bit too sweet for my tooth.

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Verhuisbrouwerij IJsbeer Willem (Whisky Oaked) (by De Verhuisbrouwerij):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

15/VIII/17 - 75cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ Help-Me-Get-to-10K-In-Time-Tasting 2 (home) - BB: 9/X/19, bottled: 9/X/16 (2017-1222)

Clear purplish red brown beer, creamy beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, ripe banana, bit sugary, caramel, dried fruits, yeast. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: alcohol, bit sourish, dried fruits, caramel, soft bitterness, some chocolate. Aftertaste: malty, very yeasty, muddy, spicy, some liquorish. Not getting much whisky flavours.

Bah!

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

Sampled @ KBF 2016, Essen. Red-brown color, average sized off-white to beige head. Smell and taste malts, somewhat smoky, sweet, grainy. Meh.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

At Kerstbierfestival 2016. Thnx for sharing ! Pours rather clear brown, small white head. Smell is plastic, metallic; paint thinner. WTF ??? Taste is sharp, paint thinner. Very, very off.

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

75 cl bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and roasted malty. Caramelish malty. Sweet, fruity and toasted malty. Milky. Sweet and fruity far finish.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle sampled at Essen Christmas Beer Festival ’16. Clear brown with a cream head. Aroma of veggies, caramel, herbs, toffee and malt. Flavour is above moderate sweet. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

[Thank you for sharing!][750 ml. bottle sampled @ O.B.E.R. Kerstbierfestival 2016] Hazy amber, little tanned head. Nose is weird, massive spoiled medicine, white spirit, nail polish, medicinal alcohol, rotting soy sauce, teriyaki sauce. Taste is like teriyakai mixed rotting fish meats white spirit, cleaning alcohol, industrial, chemical, soy sauce, varnish, industrial waste. Body is white spirit, cleaning alcohol. Out of all category terrible. Baffling really.