6.6

A but muddled and odd astringency on the nose. Malt body is good, but it’s just a decent homebrew barely. Lelystad craft beer shop

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

*Rating overgezet 2018* Het is een roodbruin bier met een volle schuimkraag. Het aroma is zoet en chocolade achtig. De smaak is noot achtig, zoet met tonen van gedroogd fruit.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Dubbel made with caster sugar rather than the usual Belgian candi sugar, bottle shared by Craftmember, cheers! Tightly membrane-lacing, thick and frothy, yellowish pale beige head over a hazy dark mahogany brown beer with ruddy hue. Aroma of chocolate-coated peanuts, rich black cherries, gingerbread, candied fig, sweet sherry somewhere, Liège pear syrup, cooked apples, blackberries, ripe pear and a dash of cough syrup (or even Antwerp Wycam’s ‘borstbollen’). Sweet onset, not too cloying though, raisin, dried plum and fig, medium carb, full and soft, fluffy mouthfeel; caramelly, resinous malts with an emphatic toasty bitter edge (much more so than is traditionally the case in a Belgian dubbel) and adorned with effects from the caster sugar, which adds a certain ‘praline’-like, noble and aromatic sweet quality on top of the toasty and eventually softly hoppy bitterness. Original and very interesting to see how the caster sugar apparently adds a more outspoken, almost liqueurish sweet and aromatic quality here – but the toasty bitterness makes it deviate even more from classic dubbel, which justifies the ‘bastard’ part of the name just as well as the caster sugar does.

6

Vrij gebrand qua karamel, vrij hard ook. Had wat subtieler gekund, ook wel balans genaamd. Na een paar slokken went het wel