Luvanium Wintertijd
Brouwhuys De Vaart in Hofstade, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Winter
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Score
6.59
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Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Luvanium Wintertijd from Brouwhuys De Vaart 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very good, thick & dense cream tinted head, stable, over well-carbonated copper-amber beer. Garden weeds, diary, bit chocolate and cake, toast, almonds. Warming up a vanilla aroma. Sweet, bit spiced, again almonds. Finish is toasted, slightly burnt, oakwood. Quite slick, medium bodied, well-carbonated. Been there, done that. Txs to Stef!
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Luvanium Wintertijd from Brouwhuys De Vaart 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Belgian style Christmas ale aged on oak chips and infused with rum - I would rather have seen a genuinely rum barrel aged beer, but given the fact that this brewery ceased operations recently for a deplorable reason (the brewer suffered from tongue cancer and remained unable to properly taste his own beer as a result), I guess this is goodbye to Brouwhuys De Vaart. Some foam peeping out of the bottle minutes after opening, but no gushing. Thick and foamy, pale yellowish beige, densely pillowy, creamy, lightly lacing, stable head on an initially clear, warm orangey 'old golden' beer with deep amber hue with strings of sparkling, misty with sediment (with some protein bits floating around). Aroma of banana peel, chewing gum, indeed oak wood (vanillin) but lighter and more superficial than in an actually oak barrel aged beer, brown rum recognisable too, wet autumn leaves, unsalted peanuts, iron (head stabiliser!), moist white pepper, burnt sugar or dry caramel, wet plaster, something chalky even, dried fig, hints of faint (unsmoked) cigarette tobacco, cashew nuts, candyfloss, honey, sow thistle, dry earth, fried egg yolk, vague onsetting oxidation (wet rusty iron). Sweetish and fruity onset, hints of dried medlar, unripe cashew nut and light banana with a vague bubblegummy edge and sourish undertone, accentuated by sharpish carbon dioxide; smooth, bit glueish mouthfeel, full but not as full as one tends to expect from a beer of this strength. Slick dry-caramelly and lightly toasty, peanutty, cracker-ish malts with that lingering bubblegummy edge but also feeling a tad 'emptier' than expected - a sign of white candi syrup or some other malt adjunct having been used to replace parts of the malt bill; worse than that, there is a clear iron- or copper-like metallic 'zing' from onset to finish, a metallic presence confirmed by the 'hand test'. Leafy and herbal (bitter 'herbes de Provençe') hop bitter notes in the finish alongside a touch of oak - but very subtle vanilla - and warming, indeed rather (dark) rum-like alcohol, although the rum flavour is not as outspoken as expected so if you told me they actually infused this with brandy, I would have believed you. In any case the finish is rather 'hot' and boozy, with that wry alcohol effect lingering on the root of the tongue and interfering too much with the actual flavours. Overall, a typically Belgian 'strong ambrée' or amber tripel with too many shortcuts, too much iron, too much banana ester, too much booze and too light a malt bill: frankly this more or less meets my expectations, I am afraid. Not impressed - so, in spite of my personal sympathy for the city of Leuven and even though I personally feel for this guy and sincerely wish him all the best, I cannot honestly regret the demise of these Luvanium beers, sorry...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle. A almost clear deep golden beer with a big off-white head. Aroma of strong pale malt, some oak, yeast. Taste of sweet and strong pale malt, grains, hints of oak, cereals, grainy finish.
mike_77 (15880) reviewed Luvanium Wintertijd from Brouwhuys De Vaart 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear amber colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a nice malty sweetness. Woody dryness. Very soft mouthfeel. Well made.
bier4der (3358) ticked Luvanium Wintertijd from Brouwhuys De Vaart 5 years ago
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Luvanium Wintertijd from Brouwhuys De Vaart 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Carrefour market @ in Tervuren near Brussels. F: medium, egg-white, average retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: malty, mellow fruity, bit “woody”, caramel, vanilla touch. T: medium to full malty base, sweet mellow fruity, bit woody chips touch, caramel, metallic touch, bit toffee, more on the sweet side, ok for the style if you don’t expect some complexity here, for me enjoyable.