Oaked Boecht Van Den Afgrond
't Hofbrouwerijke in Beerzel, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.62
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
As Boecht Oak Dat Nog, 75 cl bottle of a wood-aged version of Boecht Van Den Afgrond, the house beer of the namesake café; brewed at Hofbrouwerijke for the 25th birthday of said café. Apparently available with different labels but the same beer. Huge gusher, streaming out of the bottle neck upon opening. Loosely mousy, bit irregular, eggshell-white, open head, eventually dissolving completely; deep, warm, misty orangey 'old gold' robe with peachy hue. Aroma of fermenting pear, overripe plum, sweet dessert wine that has been aged for too long, strong solventy phenols (varnish- and a bit band aid-like even), soaking wet wood including vanilla, old apple juice, ripe banana, soggy sandwiches, damp tree leaves. Estery onset, ripe peach and pear, banana, ripe gooseberry, light passionfruit touch, tart edge but softly so, medium carb. Rounded, slick body, bread pulpy and lightly caramelly malt sweet core with residual honeyish white candi syrup sugar on top, mild white wine like-tartness around its edges quickly penetrated by drying, vanilla-scenting oak woodiness and the return of the strong, medicinal phenolic effect; some herbal, earthy hop bitterishness and very lightly warming, wodka-ish alcohol as well. Enjoyable, but like many of these Belgian blondes and tripels that get the oak treatment by breweries with little experience at that, a bit 'wild' and out of control, hardly improving the basic beer - but admittedly still making it a lot more interesting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy yellow colour with lasting head. Aroma is quite strong with a kind of tart funk, almost Bretty. It’s fresh, yeasty and quite bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Hazy orange color with small white head. Aroma is red apples, woody. Taste is apples, some more wood sugar, quite full-bodied. Low carbonation. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Wooden, citric, overripe fruity. Wooden, citric and smooth fruity. Mellow fruity finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Light gushing to rather small orangeish head over very lively, fine-bubbled fully hazy foxy-orange beer. Sourish & spicy nose, yeasty, pineapple, preserved fruit or vegetables. Faint acidity in the mouth, if enhanced by the ferocious carbonation. Strangely enough, I don’t get anything on wood, let alone vanilla. Citrus, lactic acid, preserved orange without a trace of sugar. CO² bomb, fully attenuated yet rather slick. Don’t get any added value from the oak lagering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Leicht holziger Antrunk, trocken herb. Mild säuerlich, wenig aromatisch, trinkbar. 11/11/9/8//9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Trübes orange gelbes Bier mit einer geringen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch leicht säuerlich malzig, holzig. Geschmack leicht malzig, bananig, leicht holzig, säuerlich, nett.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
29/11/2014 @ WBF Orange coloured with almost no head. Aroma is fruity, oak. Taste is citrus fruits but too much wood notes.