75cl bottle @ Shrewsbury Beer Share, April 16, courtesy of Jeremy. Pours a deep hazy brown with tan head. Aroma is earthy and lightly sweet. Taste bears berries and strange creamy icing flavours.. caramel, yeast, jenever and floral elements with an old ale feel. Very interesting brew.

75cl bottle at the April 2016 Shrewsbury beer share meeting. Having read all of the 9 reviews on here I was not sure if I should take it: glad I did. Best before mid-May this year, it appears to have matured a little in the bottle because I thought it had legs and was both interesting, different and tasty. Poured a dark ruby/brown with a wispy topping. The nose was both fruity and malty with a strange wood like aroma. The taste also had a woody feel, struggled to find any Jenever flavours but thought the overall taste was a little boozy and mellow, in fact not a long way from the regular Harlekijn once I re-read my review of it.

Unstoppable gushing upon opening, losing approx. 1/4 of the bottle. Medium to good, dense cream-coloured head over muddy red-brown beer. Bottle sports also some absolutely inedited UFO’s, black, hard, looking for all the world as burnt coal. Alcoholic nose, chewing gum, chocolate, bit of dry wood. Dense head doesn’t release aroma’s easily. Alcoholtaste. Jenever is recognisable. Again dry wood, dried-out chocolate, maltbiscuit or fake chocolate maltdrink. Faint spices (the jenever again?). Restrained but present alcoholwarmth. Slick-viscous, without being really dense. Long lasting flavours - if far from intense. Yes - jenever, gin, vodka, akvavit, all the cheap grainspirits don’t add flavour to the beer; waste of time and money.

Pours very murkey brown, small white head. Smell is mild malty, with a sweet sidenote. Taste is very quadrupel-inspired, mellow sweet malts, with a buttery,caramel earthy flavors. The barrel is very hidden, and not really jenever in the taste. Rather mild body ( would have liked more body ) Perfect carbo. Bit boozy. Rather weak in taste , especiallyu for the ABV

Bottle from tderoeck. Many thanks! Shared @ RBBWG 2015. Red amber colour, minimal head. Medium carbonation. Sweet malty with fruity notes (some banana and peach). Alcoholic finish. Jenever? I wonder if jenever is a good spirit for barrel aging.

Thanks to tderoeck! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG IV.2014 Vintage / Version. GUSHER. Hazy brown, little head. Sweet malt, sugar, very basic & boring nose, overripe fruit, light cheep booze but barely there. Taste is fizzy sugar, boring overripe fruit, barrel is at first barely there but becomes more apparent the more you drink, finish carries cheap jenever,.. Sugary body,… Very lousy & boring beer in my opinion & the price tag of 20 € doesn’t really improve my opinion of it.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Harlekijn Single Cask (Filliers) (by Fort Lapin):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5

14/II/15 - 75cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ RBBWG IV (Beerlover_Ben's place) - BB: n/a (2015-205) Thanks to Beerlover_Ben for picking this one up for me!

Little cloudy red brown beer, small aery beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of banana, very yeasty, sweet, bit sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium to thin body. Taste: very yeasty, bit sugary, banana, alcohol, watery. Aftertaste: lots of yeast, banana, alcohol, soft bitterness. Nope. Also: at €20 per bottle, ridiculously expensive!

Bottle @ RBBWG 2015 shared by tderoeck. Opaque reddish color, virtually no head. Smell and taste malts sweetish, sugary, slightly liquor, a hint of iron. Average body and carbonation. Meh.