Cognac Barrel
Brouwerij D'Oude Caert in Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: CraywinckelhofBelgian Style - Tripel Special Out of Production
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Score
6.69
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Cognac Barrel from Brouwerij D'Oude Caert 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
D’Oude Caert in Brasschaat has been experimenting with barrel aging their tripel for quite a while now, this is one of the new ones at the time of my rating, a version aged on cognac barrels. From a 75 cl bottle coming from De Caigny. Medium thick, snow white, mousy, dissipating head over a misty apricot blonde beer with warm ‘old gold’ hue. Aroma initially struck by DMS, but atypically this effect, which I thoroughly detest, fades away fairly quickly, making room for impressions of banana, sweetbread, stewed apple, coriander seed, brandy indeed but not very strong, vanilla-ish oak (also subtle), orange zest, pear drop, pineapple slices, honey, candyfloss, bubblegum, touch of iron. Estery onset with a strong dosage of banana, bubblegummy even, with notes of peach and pineapple at the sides, fizzy carb, full and rounded mouthfeel. Malt sweet middle, bread-‘pulpy’ and honeyish in its residual sweetness, soft and fluffy with sweet-and-spicy coriander as well as indeed a subtle cognac barrel effect, warming, a bit vinous and dessert wine-like even, with vanilla-ish oaky notes retronasally; the cognac accentuates the beer’s own booziness but doesn’t alter the taste as thoroughly as I was hoping for, so the whole thing still ends as a sweet, boozy, coriandered and banana-estered tripel. Maybe second filling, or not enough time in the barrel? I’m not sure, but this is the second of these barrel aged Oude Caert tripels I try now and the second one that falls a bit short of expectations.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Cognac Barrel from Brouwerij D'Oude Caert 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Caert Cognac Barrel (by Brouwerij d'Oude Caert):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
9/XII/18 - 75cl bottle @ home, BB: X/2020 - (2018-1977) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Pretty clear blond to orange beer, big creamy off-white head, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of overripe banana, bit malty, coriander, bit spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of coriander, spicy, dry, sweetish, lots of overripe banana, bit sugary. Aftertaste: more banana, coriander, sweetish, hint of apple sauce, little bitter, oxidized, orange peel. The beer isn't too bad, but where's the cognac? Probably a second fill, or even a third... ? Definitely not worth the big bucks...