8.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Color miel claro, turbia, genera gran cantidad de espuma de corta retención. Aroma muy atractivo rico en notas de levadura, plátano, clavo, especias, ligero toque repostero, paja, cereal. En boca es crujiente, seca, fondo maltoso y dulce, notas herbales, galleta, heno, final amargo y especiado...Trago fino y exquisito, postgusto agradable, excelente cerveza.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

--Bottled. -- Almost clear golden, lively head. Aroma of whire wine, fruit and grass. Mid sweet with medium to full body. Apricot brandy, honey, pears and warming alcohol. Low bitterness.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

37,5cl Fles, nog van Hopt advent '21. Mistig diepgouden kleur, witte kraag. Zoet, poedersuiker, korianderzaad, verbena, licht bloemig, licht moutig, druiven, bitterzoete finish. Medium tot volle body. Lekker, maar ook wel behoorlijk zoet.

8

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

375ml bottle as part of the 2021 Advent Calendar - GUSHER! Hazy light amber body, big carbonated bubbly white top. Nose is Belgian yeast, clove and some banana. Lively bready start, bit herby, with a nice spicy finish. Apart from having to mop up, what's not to love?

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Flaska från Hopt. Aningen disig ljust gyllengul vätska med högt vitt skum. Doft av söt frukt, äppelkompott, kanelstång, marsipan, torkad ingefära. Stor kropp, därutanför att vara sliskig, värmande alkohol. Eterisk smakbild där frukt och kryddor bärs upp av alkoholen. Elegant och gott

7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

‘Special’ version of the legendary DeuS by Bosteels, pioneering the ‘bière brut’ family of still primarily Belgian luxury ales; this one came after AB InBev’s acquisition of Bosteels, which is enough to spark suspicion, is bottled in much ‘uglier’ and smaller bottles than the original and allegedly only differs from it by having been refermented with ‘live yeast’ for an extended time. Irregular, snow white, fluffy, densely plaster-like lacing, thick head on a hazy yellow-straw golden beer with lively sparkling. Aroma indeed reminiscent of the original but seemingly even more perfumey, with impressions of star anise, allspice, fennel seed, ripe banana, rosé champagne, ripe pineapple, honey, pumice, spice bread, Granny Smith apple slices, parsnip, old dried lemon peel, moist white pepper and ‘jenever’. Fruity with strong banana ester in the onset, next to impressions of Granny Smith apple, Conference pear and ripe pineapple, lively carbonated (even numbing the tongue – certainly on the coarse side compared with the original); light sourish touch underneath the sweetness, moving into a full, rounded, white-bready malt profile deeply soaked in this perfumey spiciness of star aniseed, coriander, clove and allspice, while residual, honeyish sweetness continues. Light grassy hop bitter notes in the finish along with dominant ethereal spiciness (star anise and coriander), lingering residual sweetness and banana ester and, finally, an afterglow of warming, calvados-like alcohol. Sweet, strong, very spicy Belgian ale with indeed a slight champagne yeast flavour, but the refermentation – I assume with a Belgian ale yeast of some kind – has muffled the elegant champagne-like features of the original a bit, and the whole seems to have gotten sweeter and more banana ester-forward too, though I have to admit that it has been many years since I tasted the original version. A tad breadier and fuller, due to the yeast, but this is not necessarily a good thing – feels much more ‘ordinary’ among Belgian specialty beers than the original did (and hopefully still does). In all: alright I guess, for an AB InBev offering at least.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

How: Bottle.
Where: Beery Christmas 2021, no 11.
Appearance: Hazy golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Citrus, fruit, spices, yeast, grapes.
Body: Medium body, low to medium carbonation.
Flavour: Fruit, spices, yeast, hops, citrus.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ml. bottle as part of the Beery Christmas 2021, day #11. @home, 11/12/2021 [#4.622 Global - #153 Belgium - #4 Brouwerij Bosteels] Gusher. Pours hazy golden with a big and thick foamy white head. Lot of visual carbonation. Aroma: belgian yeast, wood, honey and spiced malts. Taste: long dry herbal yeasty mouthfeel. Good brut. #properglassware Next one please!

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from the Beer Hawk Advent Calendar. Aroma is spicy and citrusy with an underlying earthiness. Hazy light gold. A gusher. Thick foamy white head. Spiced sweetness. Honey and citrus. A touch of bitterness. Light. Thin. Fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish. Not really doing it for me. A pleasent boozy warmth but way too sweet and sickly for me.

7.4

Super carbonated and champange-like. A bit funky. Not so boozy, but super light bodied and phenol driven, great phenols. Good very unique beer. Beery xmas 2021 (3.7) Agree with above mostly, maybe even upgrade, great beer