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

Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is dark malt with caramel, raisins, dried fruits, dark bread. Flavour is fairly sweet and mildly bitter. Body is medium. Decent Bock, more basic than I expected.

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

*rating overgezet 2016* Geprobeerd met kerst. Het is een helder donker amberkleurig bier met een volle schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige en caramel achtige geur. De smaak is moutig, caramel, hazelnoot en basterdsuiker.

33cl bottle. A minimal hazy reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of dark caramelized malt, Red fruits, raisins. Taste of dark moderate roasted malt, raisins, caramel, riped fruits, cookies.

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

Bottle as part of Euroswap 03 - 17 thx to Benzai cons 2018-10-05 Göteborg AR: suger cake, bread syrup, AP: dark hazy amber, wee thin cream caramel lid F: intensive bubbly, bread syrup, bitter, dry, weed,

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Willems, Grobbendonk. Hazy brown, thin beige foam, some particles in the beer. Taste is caramel, sweet malts, light roastiness, bready. Ok beer.

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

Bottle @ home. Clear dark amber color, medium sized beige head that lasts for a short while. Aroma is malts, a bit nutty, caramel, leaves. Taste malts, caramel, brown candy sugar in the background, leaves, malt bitterness. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Quite ok.

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

Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of chestnuts, dry toast, dry caramel toffee - medium body

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

Collab of Nest with Oude Maalderij, bottle from Belgiuminabox. Advertized as a ’traditional Belgian bock beer’, a concept which has never existed... Fairly thick and densely moussy, egg-white head retaining perfectly on the edges but dissolving in the middle save for a few disparate islands of foam, over an initially cristal clear, deeply copper coloured beer with warm orangey hue, looks very attractive actually, and turns a hazy copper with sediment. Aroma is initially a bit ’dismembered’ by oxidation in the old ’rusty iron’ way, after which more flattering impressions rise up from the glass: dried apricot, chestnuts, warm toast, sweet cherry tomatoes, even a vague hint of cherries somewhere, red apple, dried flowers, plum tree blossoms, banana and light bubblegum, raw carrot, old bitter herb leaves, butterscotch candy, old nutmeg. Fruity onset but not overly estery, some banana and even very light bubblegum but hints of peach, pineapple and red sweet apple as well, underlying sourish accent but very ’dim’, fizzy carbonation with expressive minerally notes, yet still maintaining a slick, supple and lean mouthfeel. Nutty middle with both softening caramelly and sharpening toasty edges, the latter becoming more explicit towards the end, with the fruitiness surfing on top and phenols added to the whole, in a fairly restrained, old nutmeg kind of way; ends drier and mildly bitter, a bit earthy and a tad peppery, but the nutty maltiness lingers beyond that. Alcohol remains completely hidden. I must have stumbled upon an older bottle already suffering from oxidation (though I came across worse forms of oxidation than this) but in mentally trying to reconstruct its younger self, this was probably just an ordinary Belgian amber to begin with, though admittedly a good one. Its softly bittering ’toastedness’ matches well with the earthy bitterishness supplied by the hops while the malts keep prevailing, as it should be in any Bock beer regardless of substyle; it is, however, not difficult to create something that looks like a traditional, bottom-fermented German Bock (think Einbecker Ur-Bock Dunkel and the like) while still retaining a very Belgian personality; there has never been such a thing as ’traditional Belgian Bock’, versatile as the Bock family is, and all the older attempts at Bock beers in this country were very scarce and without any exception intended for export to the Netherlands where this style is still a very real and living thing. This is, all things considered, a decent but superfluous Belgian amber ale, but Nest is usually very good at making decent Belgian ales and strong ales so I must admit I expected a bit more from this.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Sampled @ MEUG 2017. Near clear amber orange, little white head. Nose is metallic nasty copper, watery, pennies & soap. Taste is awful, soap, extremely metallic,copper pennies, herbal, bay leaf & other stale kitchen spices, cooked vegetables, rubber. Body is hugely watery, metallic, copper. Interesting to see a doppelbock in Belgium but this is sadly awful. Also what does "Traditional Belgian bockbier", few Belgian breweries back "bocks" exclusively for the NL market, I am not familiar with a historic Belgian bock tradition, did it take place pre-1970 during the lager craze?

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

33cl bottle from De Caigny. Very thin white head. Very hazy amber pour. An easy drinking bock