Sample (thanks fonefan!). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is raisins, some floral tones, mild alcohol and some wood. Flavour is raisins, plum, sweet alcohol and mild wooden notes.

Sample, thanks fonefan! Clear deep mahogany colour, small head. Aroma of calvados, green apples and caramel. Surprisingly dry and slender bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Calvados, brown sugar and oaky tartness, some red wine. Getting more vinous as it goes. Peppery bitter finish. Complex - bordering to confusing. Unexpected barley wine.

22nd December 2019
Hazy amber beer, tiny pale tan head. Smooth and palate, semi dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Sweetish malts, some light cream and caramel sweetness. A nice light and semi sweet red wine, reasonably well integrated. Hibiscus on the back end, manifesting as a light generic fruity vibe. Interesting but neither fully integrated (hibiscus and caramel malts?) nor having any great depth, but quite drinkable anyway.

Barley wine with hibiscus flowers (what's with that flower thing in craft beer lately?), aged on bourgogne barrels, one of the recent barrel aging projects of White Pony. Quite thick, audibly crackling, hardly lacing, creamy, egg-white head, frothy and stable but slowly thinning and opening in the middle, over an initially near-clear, deep copper brown beer with wine red hue. Sweet and liqueurish aroma of fig compote, muscovado sugar, toffee, sweet hibiscus indeed, forest fruit jam, ripe black cherries, crème de cassis, sweet rosé wine, lots of raisins, tea, wet wooden casks, Liège pear syrup, brown honey, soggy sandwiches, blackcurrants, hint of damp earth and a dash of onsetting, old port-like oxidation. Sweet onset as expected, fig compote and blackberry jam, light banana, pear syrup, sourish blueberry-like undertone, medium carbonation (in fact a tad strong for the intended style - but providing some relief from the rather cloying, dark sugary and honeyish residual sweetness, which continues to weigh heavily on a thick, bit resinous and vinous, emphatically toffeeish and caramelly malt sweet body with light nutty edges; some light 'rusty' and port-like oxidation retronasally (already - this bottle is exactly one year old), lingering sugariness balanced out by drying wood tannins on the one hand and an underlying, subtle yet effective red wine tartness on the other hand. The hibiscus is obvious enough, in providing an aromatic, somewhat ethereal, sweet tea-like fragrance. Ends sweet and tart at the same time, not too cloying in spite of what I had feared, gently woody and warming due to a brandy-ish alcohol glow; hops add an earthy, rooty but subtle and late bitter element on the root of the tongue. Starts very sweet but gets drier towards the finish, with the hibiscus adding aromatic herb qualities - this is less crude and less boozy than expected, lacking a bit in the refinement and class a top notch barleywine should display due to that somewhat blunt earthy aspect as well as too much residual brown sugary sweetness. However, and as I stated before, it is a good thing White Pony moved to Het Nest: this brewery's typical profile is clearly present here, there is no more gushing or uncontrolled refermentation as was the case with Gaverhopke so at least technically, this is a very decent beer. Much more classically Belgian quadrupel-like (with a modern twist) than a true Anglo-Saxon barleywine, sure, but by all means a pleasant, sweet and warming sipper with a basic amount of complexity. Perhaps a more classy label would suit the intended style better, too?

Bottle 330ml. @ home. 🏡🇩🇰 💻👀

[ As White Pony Pay the Bill ].
ABV: 11.1%. Clear dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, sweet malt, caramel, rich, malty, flowers - hibiscus, alcohol - vinous - wine, light bread. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a long duration, vinous, rich, malty, flowers, barrel, port, red wine. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20210512]
8-4-7-4-15

Thank you Rubin77! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2018). Dark brown, red hue. Nose is cough syrup, cooked apple, unpleasant. Thick cooked apple, herbal, cough syrup, cloying plastic. Body is the same, meh.

Imported from my RateBeer account as White Pony Pay the Bill (by White Pony Microbirrificio):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5

10/III/18 - 33cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beer Lover's, Antwerp) - BB: 3/2022 (2018-302) Thanks to Rubin77 for sharing the bottle!

Clear deep amber to orange brown beer, small irregular beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: lots of ripe melons, alcohol more alcohol, too much alcohol. MF: pretty lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, very sugary, sticky. Aftertaste: bitter, sugary, alcohol, more alcohol, soft roast.

Fles thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een roodbruin bier met een medium schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van donker fruit en eikenhout. De smaak is licht zuur, wat zoetig roodfruit, eikenhout en caramelachtig met een vleugje chocolade.