The Oracle
White Pony Microbirrificio in Piove di Sacco (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Het NestBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
7.03
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A belgian-style barleywine? We know, the monks would turn around in the grave. But our Oracle is the perfect union of two historical styles as the belgian quadrupels and the english barleywines. Full in body, this copper strong ale releases aromas of caramel, dark & dried fruits and sweet malts, balanced by noble european hops.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
The squat little 33cl bottle, thanks to sebletitje, pours with a dark brown body that supports a short lived brown colored head. The aroma is pretty full and offers up maltiness, a strong hazelnut note, Nutella ™ and almond butter with lighter notes of prunes and dates and booze. Interesting. The taste is similar with a firm degree of nuttiness and toasted dark German bread. It also pulls together notes of prunes and dates and figs to midway just has the heat and booze begin to hit. It stays pretty darn nutty right into the finish. Is this right . . . all this nuttiness, or are my senses off? A few more sips bring another facet where I’m getting sweet nectar like date juice adding to the complexity. Interesting brew and pretty fun too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2013
at 03:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33 cl bottle @ PBF VIII
Aroma has pea soup, some bready malt and berries. Flavour has pea soup, some bready malt and hints of caramel. Too much pea soup here – quite close to Laitila products.
Aroma has pea soup, some bready malt and berries. Flavour has pea soup, some bready malt and hints of caramel. Too much pea soup here – quite close to Laitila products.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2013
at 17:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@PBF VIII. Amber colour, small head. Aroma and flavour is dominated sugar, some liquorice and some salted liquorice. Flavour is very much the same. Not that interesting. For a Belgian strong quite nice and spiced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2013
at 17:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottled at PBF. Cloudy copper colour, small head. Woody nose woith prunes, wood and tobacco. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Caramelly with notes of red wine and low bitterness. Full flavoured, but superficial.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2013
at 17:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle @ PBF 2013
Pours dark reddish brown. Aroma of sweet syrupy malts, spices, caramel and wood. Taste is sugary sweet, malty, caramely and spicy with hints of wood and vanilla. Finish is sticky sweet, malty and caramely. Not very balanced.
Pours dark reddish brown. Aroma of sweet syrupy malts, spices, caramel and wood. Taste is sugary sweet, malty, caramely and spicy with hints of wood and vanilla. Finish is sticky sweet, malty and caramely. Not very balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2013
at 17:30
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bouteille 33cl, BB 12/2017, beer appears overly inflated by fake reviews. Light gusher. Couleur acajou pour une mousse qui disparaît très rapidement mais laisse un léger filament doré sur le verre. Arôme de sucre candi qui domine ponctué par qcq notes de réglisse, léger malt biscuité et une dominance sucrée avec une inspiration qui se veut typiquement belge. Palais est fruité noir assez intense rappelant la pomme caramélisée accompagné d’un sucre candi conséquent. Le tout fini par coller aux lèvres. Fine amertume des houblons arrive en fin de bouche pour une effervescence moyenne voire haute. Profil reste ici également très belge et en se réchauffant gagne en présence de réglisse. Reste correcte, mais avec un manque de finition qui va un peu dans le sens des bières de ’t Gaverhopke.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Aug 2013
at 23:27
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Slighlty hazy reddish amber colour, white head. Aroma of caramel, malts, red berries, raisins, quite fruity. Sweet malty flavour, raisins, red fruits and dates. Finish chocolate, malts, red fruits and dates. Finish chocolate, malts, prunes and raisins.
(From 75cL bottle shared @ ZZT-ish VIII / BBT I)
(From 75cL bottle shared @ ZZT-ish VIII / BBT I)
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2013
at 14:48
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ ZZT8:BBT1. Hazy copper with a medium white head that doesn’t last. Smells herbs, malts, sweet, nuts.. Typical Belgian strong ale smell. Tastes sweet, raisins, alcohol.. Too sweet for me. Full body, soft carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2013
at 13:30
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as White Pony The Oracle (by White Pony Microbirrificio):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
18/VII/13 - 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel @ John's place - BB: IV/17 (2013-654)
Clear red brown beer, small aery beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of chocolate, weird spices, celery salt, mocha, cocoa powder. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: nice chocolaty start, caramel, bit sweet, but then overripe fruits and rotten vegetables. Is it a bad quality of malts, or yeast giving this dirty taste? It's also often in (cheap) brown Wallonian beers... Atertaste: overripe fruits, banana, caramel, something seriously off, bit spicy, sugary and dried fruits. Nope, didn't like it and neither did anyone else at the table...
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
18/VII/13 - 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel @ John's place - BB: IV/17 (2013-654)
Clear red brown beer, small aery beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of chocolate, weird spices, celery salt, mocha, cocoa powder. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: nice chocolaty start, caramel, bit sweet, but then overripe fruits and rotten vegetables. Is it a bad quality of malts, or yeast giving this dirty taste? It's also often in (cheap) brown Wallonian beers... Atertaste: overripe fruits, banana, caramel, something seriously off, bit spicy, sugary and dried fruits. Nope, didn't like it and neither did anyone else at the table...
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2013
at 11:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Birratrovo, Como; batch A, bb 12/2017
Cloudy red-brown color with generous head, and nice perlage; the bottle was slowly gushing. Aroma of caramel, soap, rubber. Malt and caramel flavor, full bodied, with a round but overcarbonated mouthfeel; there are hints of nuts, vanilla, candi sugar, rubber; correct bitterness, with a touch of sweet liquorice in the final, very light yeast, and warming alcohol; the final is a bit dusty too.
The Belgian character is quite true; it doesn’t fly though, it still needs to be refined.
(note: despite being self-defined Barley Wine, it’s a Quadruppel by taste)
Cloudy red-brown color with generous head, and nice perlage; the bottle was slowly gushing. Aroma of caramel, soap, rubber. Malt and caramel flavor, full bodied, with a round but overcarbonated mouthfeel; there are hints of nuts, vanilla, candi sugar, rubber; correct bitterness, with a touch of sweet liquorice in the final, very light yeast, and warming alcohol; the final is a bit dusty too.
The Belgian character is quite true; it doesn’t fly though, it still needs to be refined.
(note: despite being self-defined Barley Wine, it’s a Quadruppel by taste)
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2013
at 05:26