9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10

75cl Bottle. 2018 Vintage. Thanks Peter. Pours hazy deep golden orange with a white creamy fluffy dolle head. Massive complexity involving brett, funk, white wine - chardonnay, vanilla, barnyard, wood and sultanas. Vinous, dry and funky finish. Wauw.

9.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle by way of a trade. Mostly clear deep gold. Thick fairly open, but well lasting white foam. Nose has Chardonnay wine dregs. Apricot and marzipan. Gooseberry stalk. Sweat. Wet leather. Taste is tart and dry and sweaty and bitter. Super vinous. Slick but clean mouthfeel. The fact this is 10% seems unreal. Gets tart and vinous oaky and juicy on the finish. What a fucking bonkers glorious beer this is. Stunning.

8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle thanks to Mat. Pours a cloudy orange gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is strong sugar, floral, citrus, oak. Slick body, apple skin, pure sugar, wood, yeast, nice sweetness, enjoyed this.

8

EB from this Friday. Hint of apple cider vinegar in the nose but no sharp vinegar notes in the taste. Tart, funky, rich, flavourful and incredibly complex. And of course incredibly delicious! Hope to find a bottle some day to age a couple of years.

8.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

21 August 2021. At Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Kevin, Jerre & the Ghent beer crew! Hazy orange, small, frothy, off-white head. Enticing aroma of white wine, oak, ripe gooseberry, apple peel, honey, pear, vanilla, unripe peach. Taste has sweet pear, apple, plum & ripe white grape over a bready & honey-like malt base, phenolic accent of clove in the back, underlying sourish citrus. Floral hoppy finish, peppery, spicy, dry woody tannins, medicinal, lingering sweet grapes & melon, and warming alcohol hinting towards white wine or even white port. Medium to full body, oily texture, average carbonation. Classic Belgian Tripel taken to the next level, complex & delicious.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle sample during Gents Bierfestival '21 - shared with Tderoeck and Nathan.
Dorée pâle, col fin blanc.
Arôme aux effluves belges assez classiques de De Dolle, fruité exotique et notes d'agrumes - esters légers en rétro-nasal avec petite note de barrique.
Palais garde de suite ce caractère belge, pas mal de bons esters , petite touche fruitée un peu tropical - mangue, papaye, sur un 'sour" modéré. Pointe de vin blanc avec un caractère boisé qui perce en retrait.
Délicieux - à déguster.

8.5

Thanks David! HolyBeerHouse

9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle (MAS 1-3-4), many thanks kraddel! Rather clear color with white head. Aroma is white wine, a touch funk, some tripel esters, a touch nuttiness. Taste is white wine, some tart and funky fruits, super complex and balanced. Oily mouthfeel with foamy carbonation. This is a real wow, it's got all the De Dolle magic you could ever wish for!

8.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Ah, De Dolle Brouwers, pioneers not only in independent microbrewing in Belgium around 1980, but also in ageing beers on barrels previously containing other alcoholic beverages – when they started doing this in 2000, this phenomenon, now ubiquitous in craft brewing, was very rare and unusual even in the United States… They have been continuing this trend ever since and it has resulted in one masterpiece of a beer after another in the more than twenty years that have since passed – most notoriously the Stille Nacht Special Reserva series, but Oerbier has undergone this treatment as well, and on one occasion back in 2004, it was done with Dulle Teve too, aged on calvados barrels. I sadly missed out on that rather unique one, but I was very pleasantly surprised three and a half years ago that during a guided tour through the brewery, I learned from Kris Herteleer himself that Dulle Teve was again ageing in barrels, now having contained white wine. The sample he gave us, taken straight from the cask, was immensely promising, showing a great level of complexity already back then – but of course the beer was going to be bottled only when ready, and at that time, Herteleer had no idea when that would be (“it is up to the beer itself to decide”). At last, earlier this year, the beer then felt ready enough to be bottled, and here we are, sampling it from a 75 cl bottle generously shared by Erwin at a bottle share in tderoeck’s garden. Shows an egg-white, moussy, shred-lacing, bit irregular and opening head and warm, misty orange-glowing peach blonde robe. Complex bouquet of white grapes and grape skins, lots of vanilla-like oak wood, passionfruit, orange peel, minerals, soggy biscuit, ripe pear, melon, white port, peach, kiwi. Very fruity onset, lots of white currants, small white grapes and halfripe nectarines, sweet in its core but notably dried by a tart edge, adding a drying effect but a whole new layer of an unexpected flavour structure as well. Minerally carbonation notes but in a very refined and elegant way, lovely ‘sandwich’- and brioche bread-like malt core steeped in ongoing vinous ‘white fruit’ tartness like a very dry white wine, but also carrying onwards this melon-, orange- and white port-like complex sweetness; herbal lemon thyme note in the end, some clove and obviously a lot of vanilla-scenting oak wood, paired with gently drying tannins and brandy-ish alcohol – but everything remains beautifully tied together. I had wine barrel aged tripels before and have often concluded that perhaps white wine is the best option for barrel-ageing the old tripel style – but I would never have guessed the result could be this beautiful. Like those magnificent Stille Nacht Special Reservas, this Dulle Teve edition is a radiant showcase of how beautiful Belgian top fermenting can become if it is in the right hands. Alas, I was not the only one showing interest in this release: the bottles (75 cl) sold out in less than two days, and some of them obviously appeared on secondary market sites shortly thereafter, only to be sold at several times the selling price at the brewery. Never mind: I had a glass, and enjoyed it to the fullest. Thanks again Erwin!

7.8

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

05/VI/21 - 75cl bottle from the brewery @ home, BB: n/a (2021-452) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Cloudy beige to orange beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: sourish, sauerkraut, vinegar, fruity touch, some unripe peaches. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: rather sour, red wine tannins, woody, little fruity, sweet touch, vinegar, peaches. Aftertaste: apricots, very sourish, fruity, slightly sweet, yeasty, bit of an acid burn in the back of the throat, slightly bitter finish.