6

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

Sample at ZBF. blond beer with a small head, aroma is some spice, taste is spice, bitter sweet, hmm not bad but not great

6.5

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

25/04/2015 @ ZBF shared with tderoeck, 77ships, PriorL and kraddel. Light golden, small head. Nose is matls, herbs. Taste : citrus, herbal, some sweetness and light bitter

6.5

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

At ZBF 15. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours clear blonde, smell is bit grainy. Taste is bit bitter, sharp, honey aspect. Some grains, bit sweet. OK

6.8

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

Top-fermented spring bock - the brewer explained to me that he does not even consider it a Bock himself because it is top-fermented, but I disagreed, in view of the many light Bocks in the Netherlands which are also top-fermented. Anyway, he continued to explain that this is intended as some kind of ’Viking’ beer brewed with rye, oats and garden angelica, also known as ’holy ghoast’, a particularly aromatic herb (and beautiful, majestic plant) I am quite fond of, as it reminds me of my grandmother’s herb garden. Clear ’old gold’ colour, snow white, thick and sticky head; floral aroma, hints of cloves, honey, aromatic herbs (but too subtle) and pear, but I did not manage to pull the angelica out of it with certainty. Soft fruity taste, sweetish, spicy but could have been more ’angelica-forwarded’ for me; I do get a deep, restrained rye sourishness as well as the lovely velvety mouthfeel established by the oats; remains soft and sweetish, with just a subtle hint of herbal hops in the finish, as expected from the style. This beer is clearly about subtlety, a quality which is easily forgotten nowadays among all those more extreme flavours. I, for one, can still appreciate subtlety, and this one achieves it very well. Good example of its particular style, but I did expect more garden angelica!

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Hell herber, deutlich kräuterartiger Antrunk. Hell würzig herb, helles Malz, gelungen. 11/9/9/9//9

6.3

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

Sampled @ Zythos Bierfestival 2015 Trübe strohgelbe Farbe, geringe weiße Schaumkrone. Geruch süß malzig, grasig, Citrus. Geschmack nach Citrus, leicht blumig, hopfig.

6

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

Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ ZBF 2015. Hazy golden, little white. Smell is dull yeast, sugar, herbs, BE yeast. Taste is dull fizzy, herbal, sugar, something mildly unpleasant, big chunk of yeast taste & body. Dull. (Thx! for sharing people!)

--- Beer merged from original tick of Ragnabok on 25 Apr 2015 at 18:21

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as RagnaBok (by Brouwerij Den Toetëlèr):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

25/IV/15 - 33cl bottle @ ZBF 2015 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-495) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear pale orange to blond beer, creamy white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: spicy, herbal touch, bit malty, some yeast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit fruity, citrus, hoppy touch, malty. Aftertaste: bitter, grassy, some almonds, yeast, bit sweet, herbal.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, light toasted malty. Mild phenolic. Toasted, bitter and dry. Bitter and dry hoppy, grassy finish.