22/VII/21 - 33cl bottle from Beers@MovieFun (Brugge), shared @ home, BB: IX/2022 (2021-664)

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, good roast, some caramel, dried fruits, raisins. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: nice roast, coffee, slightly sweet, ripe banana, yeasty. Aftertaste: alcohol, bitter, very yeasty, more banana, spicy, some liquorice.

33cl bottle from De Bierboom beer store in Brugge. F: medium, pale tanned, not long lasting. C: black, opaque. A: malty, chocolate, herbal, nutty, caramel, bit dried fruits, DMS touch. T: medium malty base, chocolate, herbal, bit nutty, bready, cocoa touch, spicy, soft carbonation, quite simple all together, partially enjoyed.

09/06/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Clear ruby brown, big light tanned head. Nosei is dark malts, cara, DMS. Taste, dark malts, cara, bit nutty, DMS, bit spices. Couldve been quite nice otherwise except for the DMS.

The new, dark counterpart of Real Love, a ‘massieve ale’ with similar label as the blonde one, tasted at the Pier of Blankenberge, its home town even if neither of these ‘Blankenbergse’ beers are actually brewed there. Medium thick, frothy, moussy, pale greyish beige head lacing in dots over a misty, translucent amber-hued ruddy bronze beer with strong visible fizz. Aroma of old hazelnuts, acorns, quite outspoken DMS (overcooked red cabbage), wet toast, coriander seed, beetroot, old apples, caramel, dried fig, salsify, damp earth, glue, gin, some vague iron. Sweetish onset, candied fig, raisin, light banana ester, sourish undertone, medium carbonation (softer than the blonde one, which was clearly overcarbonated even for a classically styled Belgian ale). Slick and bit resinous mouthfeel, very caramelly body, sweet with a peanutty edge as well as very light toasty bitterishness in the finish; earthy, powdery yeastiness in the tail as well, bready with lingering caramel sweetness and a tea-ish, herbal, earthy hop bitterishness. Coriander note and a warming afterglow of ‘jenever’-like alcohol complete the flavour ‘parcours’. Like the blonde one, a trivial, old-fashioned Belgian ale with not much more relevance than commercial appeal to the visitors of Blankenberge, suffering from too much DMS as well, but otherwise sufficient for what it intends to be.