Tap. Golden color. Canned peach, tinner, vanilla and rumraisin in the aroma and flavor. Sweet, floral, perfumed.

As Schuppenboer Winter 2019 Rum Barrel Aged - apparently this year's winter beer by Het Nest is exactly the same as last year's. Eggshell-white, mousy, medium thick, slowly opening head lacing in dots over a lightly hazy warm peach-hued 'old gold' coloured beer, more equally clouded with sediment. Aroma very strongly dominated by (cheap) rum (Bacardi), next to nail polish, old ground coconut flesh, 'macaron', vanilla-ish oak wood, almond, pear, white chocolate, marzipan, dried peppermint leaves, cheese spread. Sweet fruity onset, peach and pineapple with hints of banana and mandarin thrown in, medium carbonation, smooth body; cereally and lightly caramelly malt sweetish 'core' soaked in a very strong rum effect, sweet and hot-boozy, with retronasal coconut, 'macaron' and white chocolate hints as well as pronounced varnish-like solventy aspects and a dim but still citric hop note providing soft bitterness; light tannic oakiness plays a minor part in this play as well, but the booze eventually overrules everything. Sweet tripel with amplified booziness due to the rum effect, which very strongly dominates the nose - you will really have to love rum for this. Not Het Nest's most refined barrel aged beer to date, if I'm honest...

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg. Hazy golden with a white head. Yeas there's definitively a lot of rum in this one; smells like they barrel aged some rum in a beer barrel. After the initial rum outburst the intensity subdues a little, creating some room for the more traditional fruity yeasty tripel type aromas. Taste is sweet with a medium bitter finish. Some mild alcohol burn is present as well. An unusual and surprising barrel aged tripel.

33cl Bottle. Dark golden colour, white head. Aroma of glue, acetone, wood, some sweet malts. Flavour of glue, acetone, wood, quite harsh, booze, some malts, hint of oak and some brown sugar / rum qualities, but it's all overpowered by the glue / nailpolish remover taste. Harsh. Medium bodied.

330 ml. bottle. Purchased @ ALBO. Rum BA version of “Het Nest Schuppenboer Tripel Grand Cru” which is now branded like as a winter beer unlike the previous BA version, 2018 edition more specifically. It pours a clear golden with a non-lasting white head. Nose is sweet rum but also with a harsher medicinal alcoholic edge, esters, anaesthesia flavoured vanilla, apple. The thing with me is that I love Rum but I feel like with some Rum BA beers the result can come across as too harshly alcoholic and less sugar & barrels sweet. Taste is sweet sugar plastic esters, Rum dominates heavily but in a pure alcohol, medicinal alcohol fashion with strong esters, green apple, faint soap, hospital, white sugar, chemical boozy and crude lemon peel lemonade almost in the back, there is some white sugar and vanila in here which helps it. Body is slick medicinal alcohol and esters. I was curious at the prospect of a Rum BA tripel whilst okay this one is also taken down by the crude aspects of medicinal alcohol whilst heaving still a clear Rum character so mixed feelings here but overall too much harsh medicinal alcohol.