The Ritual
Brouwerij Bliksem in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.97
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Our sacrifice to the beer gods. A nice firm maltiness with a sweetness. An altar full of hops. This combination gives The Ritual complexity and a good body. A ritual that makes this beer the ultimate sacrifice!
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is ripe fruits with orange marmalade, malt, apricot jam, hops, some caramel. Flavour is above medium sweet, relatively firm bitterness. Body is above medium. Nicely hoppy Barley Wine, to my liking. Paired with Hooded Menace, rather than Testament. Fits perfectly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:06
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
An amber beer, a head is medium and beige. Aroma has riped fruitness, apricot, plum, caramel, some pine. Taste has caramel, pine, ripe fruitness, plum, not too sweet, Full bodied, not stickyness. This is very good beer.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2023
at 12:07
7.5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jul 2023
at 15:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Brown. Earthy, raisins, alcohol, earthy, brown sugar. Medium sweet and boozy bitter. Over medium bodied. Very boozy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2023
at 10:49
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Good yellowish-russet head over veiled reddish brown beer. Banana, dates and an unpleasant ureum nose, wet infected rags. Tastes as if prematurely aged - or not completely fermented out? Bitter, inky bite over the syrupy underbuild. Again ureum retronasal. Hops come as an obligatory afterthought. Thick, syrupy, sticky. Good carbonation, alcoholheat. Ouch. Awful, IMO.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Kijk op Drank
on 13 Dec 2021
at 09:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Kulenborgse Bierhandel.
Dark amber with an off-white head. Dark caramel aroma with some citrus hops and apricots. Sweet taste with a boozy but nice hopbitter finish.
Dark amber with an off-white head. Dark caramel aroma with some citrus hops and apricots. Sweet taste with a boozy but nice hopbitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Kulenborgse Bierhandel
on 14 Nov 2021
at 19:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy, dark amber colour with slightly late awakening, average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, off-white to beige head. Citrusy hoppy and caramel malty aroma, notes of lemon, some lemon peel, a touch of grapefruit and tangerine, whiffs of dried fruit, raisin, fig. Taste is sweet, slightly sugary, fruity, caramel malty and citrusy fruity hoppy, notes of lemon, orange, mandarine, some grapefruit, candied orange peel, some raisin, fig, lots of caramel. Dissolved sugar enriched, slightly creamy, almost viscous texture, smooth and soft, cloying palate, medium, soft carbonation. Well balanced, relatively well hidden alcohol, nevertheless a giant body effortlessly and inexorably deploys tremendous potency and freezes your brain's serviceability within a short spell - heavy but enjoyable stuff. Maybe a cigar can withstand the power of this brew, blue mould cheese definitely does (a Blue Stiltonin case of my personal experience; not really a well matching food paring, though).
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2021
at 21:17
7/10
Sinaasappel marmelade en redelijk wat hoge alcoholen. Toch zie je dit niet vaak meer en is het best smakelijk, hoewel ongepolijst
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2021
at 23:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Clear dark amber colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have nice sweet bready malts. Sticky sweet and warming with a small level of bitterness in the finish.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2021
at 20:30
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 9
Fles 33cl thuis. Zoeten, bittertonen, marmelade, orange peel, caramel, suikers, wat kruidig, vol, stevig, beetje hoestdrank, oily zoals English strong ale. (28-2-2021).
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2021
at 16:39