De Kolonel
Hedonis Ambachtsbier in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij 't VerzetStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.07
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Bierridder (4160) ticked De Kolonel from Hedonis Ambachtsbier 3 years ago
tderoeck (22679) reviewed De Kolonel from Hedonis Ambachtsbier 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
25/VII/20 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Social Distanced BBQ, BB: n/a (2020-680)
UBER GUSHER ALERT!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of roast, sweet, vanilla, caramel notes. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, nice roast, hint of vanilla, dark chocolate, quite some alcohol, lots of whisky. Aftertaste: dry, bit sourish, sweet touch, more roast, lots of alcohol in the finish.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed De Kolonel from Hedonis Ambachtsbier 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Probably the most ambitious beer so far produced by the Hedonis crew, a coffee stout aged on wooden barrels for two years. Alas a very violent gusher, quite a lot of the content was lost to the sink upon opening. Medium thick, pale yellowish beige, mousy, in all quite stable head on a jet black beer. Aroma of mouldy hazelnut shells, beef stock cubes, whisky, soaking wet fondant chocolate bars, old coffee filters, sweat, oak wood, walnut cheese, moist peat, nutmeg, raw red cabbage, blackberries, damp forest floor. Estery onset, ripe blackberries, pear and fig, sweetish and sourish with medium carbonation; full, slightly oily mouthfeel. Walnutty, bitter-chocolatey and brown-bready maltiness with a caramelly core, leading to a softly woody finish with a herbal hop bitter note, earthy yeastiness and slight moist peat, something beef stock-like and warming whisky-like alcohol; the coffee, however, has clearly faded to a large extent during the time in the barrel, but the roasted malts do add welcoming ‘end bitterness’. Seems a tad infected – barrel ageing often bears a certain risk that this happens – so a tad flawed, to be honest; still, what got into my glass was an interesting, complex beer nonetheless, decent enough in its base, like a distinct version of Kiss My Stout. My rating therefore does not take the gushing into account too much.
nathanvc (6881) reviewed De Kolonel from Hedonis Ambachtsbier 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
2 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke & Pieter! Hazy black, very thin, frothy, beige head. Aroma is pure 'acetaldehytis' (coining this term on the spot), just lots of green apple; subtler hints of prune, raisin, vague wet coffee bean, cream, chocolate. Taste has sweetish-sour prune, raisin, fig with green apple returning retronasally; soft chocolatey maltiness under spicy & herbal accents, feeling a bit out of place. Dryish malty finish, more green apple & chocolate, soft herbal hops & warming alcohol, balancing between whisky & calvados. Medium boy, oily texture, soft carbonation. Probably way too young, making the acetaldehyde too overpowering for me. But: I don't doubt Hedonis' technical competence, so I must find a bottle sometime and let it age for a while.