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Rolling Hills Brouwcompagnie (Formerly Known As Petre Devos) in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij 't VerzetStrong Ale Winter
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Score
6.75
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy brown colour, beige foam. Medium sweet, some sweet malts, caramel with some fruity raspberry notes. Medium bitterness. Well balanced. Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
24/IV/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 10/X/21 (2020-368)
Clear red brown beer, big creamy beige head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sickening sweet, overripe banana, overly spiced, lots of star anise, cardamom, some rotting fruits, caramel, chocolate notes, rotting autumn leafs. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sugary, lots of banana, red wine, bit oxidized, caramel, red berries, more rotting fruits, some tannins, unpleasant bitterness, puke. Aftertaste: weird unpleasant acidity, vomit, roasted touch, red wine, wood notes, some raspberry jam on warming up, soft roast, caramel, bitter finish. Not a fan of this beer.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
14/03/2020 @ home - 33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Edelare
Brown colour, medium tanned head. Nose is malts, caramel, fresh red fruit. Taste is sweet malts, caramel, , bit dark malts, raspberry, soft sour touch. Bit strange but interesting
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
New one in this ever-growing Petre Devos range, a quadrupel flavoured with raspberry, caramel and ‘kinnekessuiker’ (blonde sugar), intended as a winter warmer. Even-bubbled, yellowish beige, mousy, loose, almost immediately open and quickly receding head, eventually reduced to a wafer-thin ring, on a misty, deep mahogany brown beer with purplish hue. Aroma of sweet raspberry candy or raspberry jam indeed but not too pushy, caramel, candied figs, blonde sugar melting on a hot pancake, fried banana, cloves, toasted bread, stewed plum, ginger powder. Sweet onset, candi sugar sprinkled on estery impressions of banana, plum and fig, some light sourishness underneath with a subtle raspberry note to it (more subtle than expected actually), which also seems to provide additional sweetness; medium carbonated, full and somewhat glueish mouthfeel. Full-fledged toffee- and brown bread-like maltiness, the toffee aspect obviously enhanced by the added caramel but again not too dominantly so; toasty-bitterish ending, accentuated by a hop bitterish, herbal touch but the candi (or indeed ‘kindekenssuiker’) sweetness lingers in the end, alongside caramelly maltiness, fruity esters and a glow of warming, port-like alcohol. Quadrupel with a fruit-sweet twist, not unlike those sweet fruit stouts and porters you encounter every now and then, but the added ingredients have (luckily) been kept relatively subtle, so that the natural flavours of the beer still get enough to say. Better than expected, to be honest.