33cl bottle. Gusher!! A hazy amber beer with a beige head. Aroma of strong woody malt, oak, whiskey, caramel. Taste of wood, oak, strong caramelized malt, red malt, some red fruits. Nice!

Bottle at home. Huge insane fucking GUSHER!! Hazy amber color with unidentified floating objects in there. Ok, identified, yeast of course. Decent sized beige head (eventually). Smell and taste malts, sweetness, liquor, sweetish boozy, nose is very barleywine-ish. Overall the flavor isn't so bad, but the explosion nearly killed my laptop. Mwah in the end.

Another barrel experiment in this series, again many thanks to tderoeck for sharing. Aged on 'Slyrs' barrels - apparently a Bavarian (!) single malt whisky brand... Very fierce gusher, streaming out of the bottle neck - but why am I not surprised… Cobweb-lacing, thick, very coarse and egg-white, irregular and ragged 'gusher head' over a misty orange blonde beer with warm peachy-rosy hue. Aroma of canned peaches, honey liqueur, powder sugar, banana mush, sweet cherry tomatoes, vanilla-like oak, whisky, 'jenever', wet hay, cooked carrots, coriander seed, soggy sandwiches. Sweet onset with a sourish edge, banana, peach and pineapple, lots of residual honeyish sugariness over a rounded, fluffy, fizzily carbonated bready malt sweet body; very boozy finish, whisky-like and heating but astringent as well, lots of lingering sugary sweetness and bready yeastiness but a bit too restrained in woody tannins. Everybody wants to do barrel aging these days and that automatically leads to less inspired or less well executed examples - and that is the case here too: if Zingende Blondine is a suitable beer for this treatment to begin with, something I am not even convinced of, then it should have benefited from a much more thorough aging process. Somewhat clumsy and to me less successful than the wine barrel aged version, with too much wry booziness in the finish.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Gaverhopke Zingende Blondine Slyrs B.A. (by 't Gaverhopke):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5

19/VII/18 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared with Alengrin @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BBE: 2020 (2018-861)

HUGE GUSHER ALERT!!!
Clear orange beer, huge fizzy aery foamy off-white head, little stable, falls down quickly. Aroma: very sweet and sugary impression, overripe banana, alcohol esters, pretty messy. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of alcohol, banana, lots of esters, sugary, more alcohol, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: bit yeasty, sugary, more alcohol, more banana.