Imported from my RateBeer account as Préaris Gerstewijn (by Vliegende Paard Brouwers):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

7/III/17 - 33cl bottle from Brugs Bierfestival 2017 @ home - BB: 8/XII/17 (2017-369)

Clear red to purple beer, small creamy to aery off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, caramel, sweet, dried fruits, overripe banana, alcohol. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of alcohol, ripe banana, sugary, very yeasty. Aftertaste: banana, more alcohol, yeast, sugary, bit fruity, some dried fruits, soft bitterness.

330 ml. bottle split @ Beerlovers Bar. Purchased @ Bruges Beer Festival 2017. Dark orange amber red with little bubbles. Nose is hugely thick & sweet in a very BE fashion with big cuberdon notes, sugar, sweet, candy, excessively sweet. Taste is massive almost strange hark back to DE fashion with big fish guts note combined with cuberdons massive very Belgian sweetness, oily caramel, candy, fish guts profile, near umami, BE notes, almost cloying, oily. Thick sugar, caramel. Puzzling beers that goes BE sweat for broke, extreme sugar, fermented to almost vague DE fish guts notes in a non-lager malt thick brew. It does many things other than fitting into the standard USA styled barley wine category. Puzzling beer, not entirely to personal preference but an interesting one & pretty decent one.

New addition to Andy Dewilde’s Préaris range, at BBF. Thick and very creamy, dense, pale yellowish beige head, dark bronze colour with warm burgundy hue, hazy. Aroma of caramel sauce, honey, raisins, candied fig, white port, orange peel, white rum, marmelade, white pepper, wet leather. Sweet onset of dried banana and fig, slight sourish redcurrant-like accent and even a very light beefy umami touch, medium carbo, full and smooth, ’fluffy’ mouthfeel though perhaps a tad less vinous than one would expect from the style, thick toffeeish malt sweetness with a soft, subtle toasted accent, lingering candied banana and honey sweetness but balanced in the end by a dash of spicy hops and warming, brandy-like but non-astringent alcohol. English style barleywine indeed but still with certain Belgian (quad-like) traits, which however do not disturb me here; perhaps a little bit overcarbonated, but otherwise a delicious beer, technically in perfect condition, rich and warming. Recommended, hopefully this will soon be a part of the more widely available Préaris range.