13-07-19 // at Bierbörse Mainz 2019 Clear brown. Babbig süße chocolate sugar. Cocoa milk sugar pwoder stirred into beer. Weird.

Bottle at Cafe Bruxelles. The colour is a weird brownish brass rather than a stouty dark brown. Decent if unexceptional and unbeery smell. Smells of chocolate, cola and berries. Sweet taste, more like a soft drink than a beer, and not very chocolatey. A nice fruity cola but flavour near the flavour but there's also the slightest touch of sick. A mess but not altogether offensive.

Bottle from a Carrefour in Ninove. Pours hazy brown, reddish, with a thin, frothy, off-white head; little lacing. Weird 'aroma' of 'wet chocolate', ersatz chocolate (definitely Koetjesreep), red candy, Ice Tea perhaps, mouldy praliné, dank cellar, hint of dishwater weirdly. Medium to heavy sugary sweet taste, though weirdly not cloying, hints of candy, sugared chocolate drink, Koetjesreep again, and a very, very faint spicy, cinnamon-like bitter touch, even a hint of sour mouldy lemon. Short, 'empty' finish, bit metallic, faint plastic chocolate. Light body, watery texture, lively carbonation. That these beers are made is an abomination in itself. But to realise that masses of tourists come into beer pubs & restaurants (e.g. Cambrinus in Bruges) in this country and order this to savour the 'taste of Belgium' just makes my heart weep.

Flesje meegebracht van vakantie en gedronken met Tomhendriksen. Bleek bruin bier zonder schuim. Aroma van chocolade. Smaak van zoete chocoladedrank. Waterig en zonder nasmaak.

Fles gedeeld door Inoven, geprobeerd in Oirschot. Het is een oranje bruin bier, praktisch zonder schuim. Het heeft een sterke chocoladegeur. Het ziet er niet echt Smakelijk uit. Het heeft een choladesmaak, een licht zuurtje. Biersmaak is ver te zoeken.

F: thin, tan, quick gone. C: brownish, hazy. A: malty, herbal, bit strange fruity chocolate, bit vanilla. T: malty, herbal, fruity, bit chocolate, cocoa, strawberry, very funny, not good at all, light body, low/medium carbonation, 33cl bottle from Bierwinkel De Hopduvel in Gent.

Shared from bottle at home. I can’t thank Maakun enough for sharing this. Massive thanks Maakun! Hazy amber with offwhite head. Very sweet milk chocolate and malts, orange flavored sugar candy, marzipan, hazelnut. Very sweet and light bitter. Thin body and soft carbonation.