Kapittel Prior 9°

Large foamy light brown head stayed on a rich dark brown still body. Malt, chocolate & spiced aroma. Medium bodied, soft on the palate with dry clean back. Malt, berries, caramel & fried raisin tastes with lightly hopped finish. Nice.

Bottle from Belgiuminabox, Antwerp. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Nose is coconut toffee,almond,marzipan, raisin. Taste is caramel, dried fruit, more coconut toffee, sweet malt. Lots of alcohol warmth. Sweet malty finish.

Nice tasty belgian yeast forward beer. The only minus is that it’s a bit white winey. Clean and drinkable and not boozy. Online beerwulf

33cl bottle at home (26 VIII 2019), as Kapittel Prior 9°. A classic abt ale, strong Belgian beer with dark, black body - I drank this one as a vintage - and a reddish, ruby red shade, not thick or oily and quite dull. On top there is a swiftly diminishing thick beige, brown collar. The nose has lots of sweetness in there, think of overripe blue grapes, plums, raisins, blue and black forest fruits, cassonade sugar, sherry, port and tons of dextrose. The overwhelming idea in this vintage bottle is chocolate mousse and milk chocolate (no oxidation, thank God!). Appealing for sure, but nothing special. The malt undertones are traditional Belgian, with many yeasty hints and earth or dust flavours. The taste has less trump cards, as to be expected. Still, this is a lovely complex brew, especially when it is aged well. The body is quite heavy, mixed with a medium carbonation and that typical lingering Leroy ground water features. Nonetheless, this brew is one of the flag ships of the brewery, and stands firm in the gamma for reason. The mouthfeel combines two stories: a sweet, round, silky maltness on the one hand, and a dry bitter ending with a surprising amount of hoppyness on the other. The taste has caramel, port, grapes soda, lots of alcohol, different straw hints, chocolate cake, bread yeast, perhaps some liquorice, sherry, whisky peat, coffee candy sweets, mocha, dried fruits such as peach and even banana. The ending shares some lovely herby hops, lots of them, leaving the finish with a huge amount of dry peat features and some roast - which I can appreaciate a lot. Too bad I didn't wait a couple of years longer to open the bottle.

Aroma has cherry, cinnamon and pear. Complex flavor with glue, coffee, cinnamon, caramel, hops, oak cherry and a hint of sourness. Very unusual both herbal and fruity taste. But it''s a good beer!

Hatalmas, örökké tartó bézs hab, barna szín. Karamelles, gyümölcsös illat. Édes, karamelles, gyümölcsös ízek, némi fűszeres beütéssel. Testes, enyhén szénsavas, közepesen keserű. Finom, jól eltalált sör.

Nous sommes loin des références belges avec cette Kapittel Watou Prior qui m'a déçu à la fois par ses arômes simples autour du sucre brun et de la coriandre, mais également par son équilibre qui présente ou double faille, une base trop douce et un alcool trop affirmé. Ce dernier, s'il ressort, ne confère pas même de la puissance à la bière comme cela peut être le cas dans une Bush ou une Trappe Quadruple. Visuellement, nous sommes sur un brun limpide surmonté d'une mousse beige de 1,5 cm. Le nez est sur le caramel, sucre brun, coriandre et girofle avec de petites touches de prune. Deux étapes peuvent être dissociées à la dégustation. En premier lieu, l'attaque et la seconde bouche qui reprennent les arômes présents au nez, sans complexité et sur une certaine lourdeur ; et l’arrière-bouche ainsi que le final où l'alcool se détache prend l'ascendant mais sans permettre à la bière de gagner en puissance. Si la corpulence est honnête, le final est pour sa part trop court. Décevant.

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