Sterk & Donker
Boatrocker Brewing Company in Braeside, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.37
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
From a 500ml bottle on 27/2/2021 (shared with Butz, 2018 vintage, ABV 11.2%). Pours a deep amber/dark brown with a smallish head. Has a lovely nose featuring toffee, caramel, dark fruit, and Christmas cake, with just a whiff of booze. Tastes pretty much the same as it smells, with a good dash of raw sugar, finishing with a quite sharp spicy finish, again with some bourbon booze in the mix. My only gripe is the mouthfeel, which is a bit thin and lacking in body for a beer of this size. A very solid sipper, if not quite blowing me away.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From bottle at Good Beer Week 2019 Launch Gala. Deep orange colour. Complex caramel nose. A party in the mouth with woodiness and esters and some burnt sugars. Made me mighty happy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared. Thanks TimE! Loaded with fruit, prune, plum raisin even some apricot somehow and loads of cacao. Smooth and drinkable. Hides the alcohol fairly well, but maybe a bit thin on the body. Still lots of flavor and very nice. I’m not a big quad fan but this I dug.
TimE (11146) reviewed Sterk & Donker from Boatrocker Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown color. Tons of dark fruit and chocolate in the nose. Very malty and smooth. Amazingly smooth body, a bit of tartness. Tons of dark fruit smooth but doesn’t have amazing depth. Super malty and warming finish. Well made, but just doesn’t go to the next level
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours dark brown with a quickly fading head.Nose shows caramel, sultanas, port and bready malt.Similarly rich flavours, more bready malt, brown sugar, raisins and golden syrup.Pretty awesome.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Bottle) Very dark brown with thick tan head. Rich complex sweet aroma: toffee, raisins, alcohol, spice. Soft, smooth, velvety mouthfeel. Rich foretaste, dark toffee, raisins, some peppery spice. Tastes falls away in mid palate as the alcohol steadily dominates. The finish is mainly alcohol with some residual burnt caramel notes. Definitely drinkable, unusual, interesting, but not quite balanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 12C. Fairly dark brown with a beige head that fades to a sparse coat fairly quickly but then hangs in there a while. Aroma of stewed and dried fruit, leather, cola, light chocolate. Lots of dark fruit, dough, leather, dark sugars, light spices. Sweetness is held in check really well and there’s little sign of the alcohol. Very gentle bitterness, low-key spices. Lacks that mysterious restrained chocolatey bottom-end rumble that the better darkish Belgians have, but this is very impressive and wholly convincing.