Vreemde Eend Export Stout
De Gulzige Gans in Coevorden, Drenthe, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular|
Score
6.91
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Alengrin (11675) reviewed Vreemde Eend Export Stout from De Gulzige Gans 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The dry stout from a very small ‘garden shed’ microbrewery in the Dutch Drenthe region; bottle at De Koffer in Groningen. Thick and mousy, regular, pale beige-ecru head, slowly opening over a black beer with reddish-mahogany edges. Aroma of old dusty ‘fondant’ chocolate, coffee grounds, ground walnuts, burnt toast, charcoal even, bayleaf, salmiak, hazelnuts, black olives. Very fizzy and sharply numbing carbonation effect in the onset, distracting a bit from the flavour, which eventually reveals itself as restrainedly sweetish (old dry raisin) with a thin dash of dry beefstock cube umami and basic underlying sourishness, quickly moving to a streamlined, oily, walnutty and toasty-bitter main flavour, evolving into further roasted bitterness in the end, roasted chicory-like and mouth-filling, with a rooty, spicy hop bitterness supporting it. Meanwhile the fizzy carbonation continues to interfere and that is my only complaint here: apart from this obvious overcarbonation, this is a very well-measured, clean and balanced ‘old school’ stout of a kind I can still hugely appreciate among all these ornamental and exuberant flavoured imperial stouts. Well done, all in all, especially for such a small brewery.
EvNa (6176) reviewed Vreemde Eend Export Stout from De Gulzige Gans 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Color: Black, beige head. Aroma: Roasted malt, mocha, coffee. Taste: Moderate to medium sweet, smooth mouthfeel, mocha, coffee, chocolate and roasted malt. Light to moderate bitterness. Just over medium body, below average carbonation. Pretty thin finish. Ok smooth Stout, although not that special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap @ Bierfestival Groningen. Black with a beige head. Roasted malts aromas. Sweet taste. Nice stout.