6.9

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.

8.4

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.

6.5

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.

4.4

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.

6.9

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.

6.9

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).

7

Sinaasappel marmelade en redelijk wat hoge alcoholen. Toch zie je dit niet vaak meer en is het best smakelijk, hoewel ongepolijst

7.2

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.

8.4

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).