Roodbruin bier met mooie schuimkraag. Smaak is bitterzoet met iets van noten, wat karamel, chocolade en een heel licht fruitig zuurtje.

Dark brown with quick fading head. Nice beer with some sweet elements of dark malts and dried fruit like raisins.

Bottle picked up from Belgiuminabox Webshop, Antwerp and consumed at home Sunday 23rd August 2020, listening to Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy, cooking Lamb Tava to have with a Greek Salad. Finally a traditional Belgian style that these guys seem to have nailed, I've been disappointed in their offerings up until now. Pours dark brown with an off white head that swiftly departed. Yeast noted but also caramel, dark sugars, fruity, dates, figs, sweet but then dry. It's nice.

Bottle from Bezoekerscentrum De Lambiek - and strangely, the ABV has been changed from 5.2% to 7% in handwriting... Very thick but eventually ’stabilizing’, thickly lacing, yellowish cream white, very stable and closed head over a clear dark bronze beer with bright ruby hue, becoming more and more muddy with deposit. Aroma of hazelnuts and roasted pine nuts, freshly cut nettles, overripe peach, medlar, black tea, ripe banana, caramel, dried orange peel, coriander, lots of candied dates, brown bread, diluted coffee grounds, very old cocoa powder, liquorice candy, straw, baker’s yeast, old toast, hint of stale and very old ’herbs de Provence’, dry earth, old cardboard - apparently I am using the word ’old’ all too often, this bottle is probably not very fresh. Fruity onset of brambleberries, some red apple and blue plums, softly carbonated, smooth, gentle with a sourish edge (dried orange peel), moving into a very soft, powdery middle phase, very yeasty with continuing fruity and spicy notes, caramelly, sweet with chocolatey and very nutty accents, becoming increasingly ’corianderish’ towards the end, with lingering juicy caramel malts, bittersweet and resinous coriander domination and some leafy, spicy, ’deep’ hop bitterness; there is some warming alcohol, but nothing obnoxious; a dark candi sugar sweetishness remains as well, but efficiently balanced by the drying effects of the coriander and the hops. Toasted and nutty, even blandly, coffeeish roastedly bittering maltiness prevail. Not unpleasant, but too old a bottle, the yeast lends it a (too) powdery mouthfeel and the coriander is being abused - once again. Starts off as a classic Belgian dubbel, but turns a bit edgy - even lightly astringent - when the (admittedly) soft roasted bitterness comes in, so this beer does show character, all things considered, but it stays ’overcoriandered’.

Bottle shared. Pours cloudy brown with a beige head. Aroma is major malty, overripe dark fruits, caramel, molasses and a little sickly. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thin off white head. Hazy brown pour. Malty aroma. A decent brown beer.