Lorelei #2
D'Oude Maalderij in Izegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Barley Wine - Barley Special|
Score
7.07
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madmitch76 (40782) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
7th September 2022
Best before 2121? Maybe I should have left this one for 50 years? An heirloom? Love the confidence in the longevity of this brew - cracking! It's a hefty 14% barleywine aged in Gouden Carolus Whiskey Barrels for 22 months. Hazy amber brown beer, small and mayfly like pale tan head. Smooth palate, a trace of viscosity but the mouthfeel is quite light overall thanks to good fine carbonation. Smooth caramel malts, decent creamy sweetness. The 14% shows its teeth in the mid with some spice and on the finish with a gullet warming swallow. In between those 2 events is some nicely ripe fruity whiskey. Not a whiskey fan myself but if I was going to buy a bottle, this Belgo offering would be on my shortlist. An muscular and entertaining barleywine that warms the cockles. One to stock up on for the forthcoming energy crisis mayhap? It ain't goin off according to the brewers. By the time this goes off we should have nuclear fusion tech!!!
Idiosynkrasie (18028) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 3 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle [#1036/1250]. Cloudy, brown-ish, dark red colour with small, frothy, diminishing, minimally lacing, white head. BA supported, sweet-ish malty aroma, notes of marzipan, caramel, a touch of marmite and cherry, some oak, toasted oak, smoked wood, dried fruit, raisin. Taste is sweet malty, dry oaky and quite boozy, notes of caramel, dark caramel, marzipan, fruity hints of raisin, sultana, cherry, a touch of marmite; warming, alcoholic finish. Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, smooth soft and slightly pungent palate, fine, soft to flat carbonation. Rich and complex, quite alcoholic - not my cup of tea.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
21 August 2021. At Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to the Ghent beer crew! Hazy amber, no head. Aroma of green apple, calvados, candied plum, dried orange peel, cooked pear, toffee, whisky, date paste. Taste has very sweet apple, pear & candied plum in a toffee malt body, relatively phenolic with nutty & herbal edges. Herbal hoppy finish, spicy, lingering dried fruits, wet wood, caramel & warming whisky alcohol. Medium body, oily-syrupy texture, soft carbonation. Not very refined in a way but I don't care, love this stuff.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Another one in this series of water monster-themed barleywines by D’Oude Maalderij, this time (2020) aged on barrels which previously contained whisky made by Het Anker, the brewery of the famed Gouden Carolus brand in Mechelen, which indeed started producing their own whisky in 2010 (making use of Jack Daniels barrels). This rating concerns the second Lorelei batch, produced in 2021 and sampled at Gents Bierfestival. Pale greyish beige, large-bubbled, open head dissipating under influence of the alcohol over a cloudy mahogany brown beer with bronze hue. Aroma of caramel, lots of whisky and bourbon, ripe banana, stewed pear, melting brown sugar, lots of wet wood and vanilla-scenting ‘oakiness’, medlar, fig jam, sweet sherry, moldy tree leaves. Sweet onset, hints of pear, date and medlar sugared with candi sugar, very lightly sourish around the edges, softly carbonated with very full and vinous mouthfeel; deeply caramelly, bit hazelnutty and brown-bready malts, dried by strong oak wood tannins with clear retronasal ‘vanilla’ effect, but also by very strong booziness from the whisky, turning things a bit wry. Nutty and caramelly malts linger through the heat of the booze, with some leafy hop bitterishness and remnants of that brown sugariness sticking a bit. Heavy, hot, sweet – a present-day barleywine indeed, not lacking in complexity but too boozy for me, as well as being a bit crude in its basis, like most of these “monster beers”.
Sebletitje (15913) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle sample during Gents Bierfestival '21 - shared with Tderoeck and Nathan.
Cuivre trouble, col fin blanc-cassé, le tout sur un filament huileux doré au verre.
Arôme donne de belles effluves de whisky qui perce bien en rétro, complété par un complexe nez malté oscillant sur le caramel, pâle, pointe de chocolat, fruits confits et secs.
Palais est de suite pris par les 14% de ce barley - barrique ressort bien avec une petite note vanille, boisé, effervescence basse qui accentue le côté barriqué, petite douceur latente/collant aux lèvres - fruits noirs et secs.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
21/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle (on label, but probably a 50cl?) @ Gents Bierfestival (Gent), BB: VII/2121 (!), bottled: VII/2021, barrelled: IX/2019 (2021-914)
Pretty clear pale brown beer, practically no head. Aroma: very yeasty start, bit of a sugary impression, oxidized, dried fruits, alcohol, sugary impression. MF: soft to no carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of alcohol burn, bit sweet, banana, alcohol ,sugary, caramel, very oxidized. Aftertaste: more alcohol, sugary, banana, caramel, oxidized, ok but not as great as I would’ve hoped from the style.