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Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

New Verzet beer, actually a reinstallment of a long forgotten beer brand from Oudenaarde, but only in name since the original seems to have been a dubbel. Recreating ’extinct’ beer brands is a regularly recurring theme in Belgian brewing but in this case, apparently an attempt has been made to carry it into the 21st century - not a bad idea, considering the vast changes that have happened in beer culture since the original version was last made. Medium thick, moussy, snow white head, densely structured and slowly breaking in the middle, over a lightly hazy, deep ’old gold’ coloured beer with deeper orange hue; turns an equally hazy, more peachy and amberish orange with sediment poured into the glass. Aroma unfortunately suffers from a lot of DMS (overcooked cauliflower) and something rainwater-like, otherwise breathing more flattering impressions of red apple, banana (even some bubblegum), white pepper, field flowers, sweetbread, dried orange peel, moist chicken spices, grass, raw potato, unripe peach. Fruity and estery onset, hints of apple, pear and banana with a sourish redcurrant touch, some residual white candi sugar, medium carbonation, slick and lean body. Light malty and cereally middle, a bit bready and soft, but a tad metallic as well; fruity yeastiness is accompanied by light spicy phenolic notes and the finish brings some refreshing, hayish, floral, even very subtly grapefruity and lightly spicy hop bitterness with drying effect; a very late toasted malt bitterish touch, very softly so, goes down along with this hoppy touch as well as ongoing fruity esters. I am very sensitive to DMS and that is basically what bothered me the most here, but admittedly the flavor is decent, with a slight American touch to it - typically a Belgian ale with certain 21st century traits. Many good beers have come out of this kind of ’compromise’ but in this case, the DMS really has to go, as it is quite strong in this one and ruins an otherwise perfectly decent, carefully hop forward Belgian ale (rather than actual APA though - this style designation is not mentioned on the bottle either so I wonder how this beer got qualified as one here, though there are indeed certain similarities with it). Tastes a lot better than it smells, briefly put.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 10

Pours rather unclear amberblonde. Small white head. Smell is bit grainy, fresh. taste is sharp, bit bitter, very malty. Really mellow towards the end. malty, some hops. Sounds like another boring Belgian ale, but it’s quite a bit better though. More ’fresh’ , more balanced. Not as yeasty. wouldn’t concider it an APA myself ( not hoppy enough ), i think this could be advertised as a very nice Belgian ale though !

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

This is dangerous!! I can state that I tasted the original Petre Devos from Oudenaarde and it was Oud Bruin - certainly not IPA! A risky tasting for this birthday! Huge, towering very fine and dense faint yellowish head, lacey, over old gold coloured beer. Sourish nose, lemony, nearly hinting @ lambic, but also quite spicy/herbal, turning into a totally different direction. Bitter, spicy - again in yet another direction. Hardly any sourness in the flavour. Seriously fermented out, yet som underlying sweeter malts. Still, quite bitter for only 32 IBU. Light body. Looks undercarbonated, but the feel is OK Noch vis noch vlees...

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Petre Devos Audenaerde (by Petre Devos Audenaerde bvba):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

28/X/16 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home, BB: 22/IX/18, bottled: 22/IX/16 (2016-1242)

Little hazy deep orange beer, big fizzy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty sweet, quite some banana, some tropical fruits, mandarins, yeast, sweet caramel. MF: soft carbon, light to medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, lots of grapefruit, citrus, pretty sweet touch, yeasty, spices. Aftertaste: grassy, spicy, coriander notes I think, fruity touch, yeast, grapefruit, very bitter, some tropical fruits, bit of banana.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Geers. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Dry and grassy, yeasty. Medium carbonation. Average beer. This should be listed as Belgian Ale instead of IPA.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

05/08/2016 - 33cl bottle @De Zwarten Engel, Etikhove. Thick green colour with medium white head. Yeasty, bitterhops, nice & refreshing but too much yeast. However glad to see this name of an old Brewery from my hometown making a comeback.