Vicaris Generaal
Dilewyns in Dendermonde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.24
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Vicaris Generaal is a dark brown, top-fermented beer with a beautiful yellowish head. The additional use of special malts lends this dark version of the Vicaris Triple not only its unique warm colour but also its distinctive full-bodied flavour and rich aroma. The specially selected hop variety creates the right balance between bitter and roasted malt tones. Fans of a strong dark beer will love this connoisseur beer with taste evolution. So, don’t be afraid to keep it for a few months or even years, its distinct character will only get better.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A recent purchase from a distributor that helps keep me in Belgian brews. This 33 cl bottle will be served into my Great Heights snifter. I determine a mahogany brown body with an assertive parchment brown head. I lift for a smell, candied fruit, cherries and bread dough. But the taste is why I am here. Raisins, biscuit, dates, a vinous quality. Less sweet than expected from the nose, actually more a sour note. Creamy. Goes in a different direction that makes it interesting but definitely not one of my favorite dubbels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2019
at 22:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Quinns. Dark red brown colour with small beige head. Aroma is fruit cake, treacle, sweet, caramel. Taste is dark fruit, sweet cake-like, and boozy. Bit of chocolate. Medium to full bodied with a rich finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Deep dark brown color. Roasted malt and lapsang souchong tea in the aroma. Sweetish, raisinny roasted flavor. Hint of smoke. Dry out effect. Peach. Long aftertaste of roasted malt and raisin. Well balanced, flavorful beer.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
33cl bottle. A clear reddish brown colour with a mid-sized good lasting beige head. Aroma of caramel, raisins, dark moderate roasted malt. Taste of caramelish dark malt, chocolate, nuts, raisins, cookies. Quite nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2018
at 20:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Beer #3 of my #7000 beer celebration - 7 on either side of the milestone. Deep brown coloured body with a ruby glow along with a rich brown and coppered glow and a thick four centimetre tall light brown head at first that fades fairly quickly and after a few moments, you've got nothing left up top. Aroma of caramel, light toffee, a touch of apples and pears, some mild grain, a dose of yeast and finishing with some honey and light earthy nuttiness. Meidum-bodied; Strong honey and very sweet flavours at first with a heavy note of malt, light grain, some nuts and earthiness, but mostly a dry, sweet and caramelised sugar flavour with a touch of yeast on the tail end and even a little bit of bread. Aftertaste is dry, but very sweet and incredibly muted for the style - this goes down very easily without any alcohol or pungency/astringency around - this is mild and showing it's age very nicely. I'm not sure what this would have tasted like when I first bought it, but i'm glad I aged it and while it didn't have too much of a complex character, this was nice and aged well. I sampled this stubby 33 cL bottle purchased from Bier Tempel in Bruxelles, Belgium on 18-January-2015 for €2,50 sampled at home in Washington on 21-August-2018, a bit more than 3.5 years after purchase. Date on bottle (best by date?) of: 23-April-2017.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2018
at 07:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark beige frothy head stayed well on a thick chocolate brown body. Sweet aroma with dark spirits, demerara, parkin & malt. Medium bodied, very sharp & tingly on the tongue with a clean finish. Tastes as the aroma with demerara, Christmas cake, plum, dark spirits & tangy citrussy finish.
Tried
on 21 Jul 2018
at 21:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Muddy brown. Huge frothy head of beige colour. Aroma: dark malts, spicy yeast, dried fruit. Medium body. Taste: medium dry. Rich dried fruit, caramel, toffee, rum, notable hop bitterness. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2018
at 18:05