De Meester Douze - Heaven Hill Bourbon BA

Douze - Heaven Hill Bourbon BA

 

De Meester in Lendelede, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
7.38
ABV: 12.0% IBU: - Ticks: 15
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8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
A 33 cl bottle from inventory that must be tasted before the deadline. Working with a Straffe Hendrik snifter, I make the pour, dark amber brown followed by a spare ring of light, very fine, tan bubbles. The scent is hard candy, ripe fruit, malt and grain. I take a drink. Dried fruits, malt brown sugar, a welcome booziness, baked wheat bread and caramel. Consistent with the brewery's other high quality beers, I like this one considerably.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2025 at 02:24

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
33cl bottle (9 month bourbon barrel aged) from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop as my beer #3666 from Belgium. F: medium, tanned, good retention. C: dark, opaque. A: dried fruits, caramel, bourbon, woody, vanilla. T: full malty base, dried fruits, woody, vanilla, caramel, bourbon, bit nutty, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, dry on the palate, bit raw warming alcohol yet beside this quite tasty beer, enjoyable.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2024 at 20:12

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
21/VI/24 - 33cl bottle, shared @ Kelderschatten Gentse Biervereniging at Baracuna (Gent), BB: 8/II/26, L2012P4, 9 months B.A. (2024-424)

Clear purple red brown beer, big solid creamy beige yellow head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of dried fruits, a bit oxidized, soft roast, malty, some chocolate, caramel, some cardboard. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: roasted, malty, caramel, dried fruits, a little bitter, oxidized, earthy, alcohol. Aftertaste: sweet touch, caramel, dried fruits, alcohol, whisky, chocolate, oxidized, some vanilla.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2024 at 20:15

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Thick amberish cream head over deep dark brown beer, adhesive foam. Sweet nose. Again one with diary aroma, sweetened milk, dark malts, raisins. Woody, dry-ish flavour. Lots of liquorice. Faint mushrooms, leather, earthy, but again mixed with sweet diary. Well-carbonated, quite viscous-creamy texture. Alcoholwarmth. Nothing wrong - but once again I get the sweet-had-before impression. And for a Bourbon barrel aged, there's preciously little vanilla and young oak. Maybe not a bad thing, too... Txs to Stef!
Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2024 at 08:36

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber-tinged brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out dark dried fruits, gentle Belgian yeast, brown sugar, and a touch of toffee. Flavour has plenty of bourbon barrels, a nice expression of Belgian yeast, booze, toffee, and plenty of brown sugar. Really nice barrel presence, though the quad character is less elegant than some of the better Belgian quads, and the residual sweetness is rather high. Carbonation is assertive though -- appropriate for the style -- which masks some of the sugar, but it's still a bit too sweet. Good but not an elite quad.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2024 at 03:49

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Bourbon barrel aged quad (the “douze” doubtlessly referring to Westvleteren 12) by De Meester in West-Flanders, shared with Craftmember. Membrane-lacing, yellowish pale beige, moussy, quite dense head of a barrel-aged strong ale; misty deep and dark burgundy-brown robe with wine red glow, more cloudy with sediment. Aroma of raisins, caramel, ‘boerenjongens’, dates, vanilla, clear bourbon linked to said vanilla as well as oak wood (old furniture), dried apricots, dried thyme, dry earth, tawny port of lesser quality, old brown bread. Sweet onset with balancing sourish edge, raisin, dried fig, softish carb, full and rounded body – with slight metallic edges for some reason; caramelly, walnutty and brown-bready maltiness with a bitterish toasty edge coinciding with woody tannins and eventually, earthy hops, phenolic spiciness (clove), lingering candi-sugary sweetness and bourbon booziness – the latter being just a tad too astringent for my liking. Ambitious but short of true greatness and on the crude side, as usual with this brewery, which nevertheless managed to pleasantly surprise me on a few occasions.
Tried on 31 Mar 2023 at 08:33

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Besteld op 18-09-2022 bij Poseidon Beers en thuisgebracht op 20-09-2022 door Sander himself. Thuis mijn smaakpapillen ermee verwend op 14-01-2023.
Douze Heaven Hill BA wordt gebrouwen bij brouwerij De Meester uit Stasegem. Alwaar industrieel ingenieur Dirk De Meester en zijn eega Ann Verfaillie na een tijdje garagebrouwen (800 liter per week) in 2016 de gelegenheid kregen om het vroegere pand van brouwerij ’t Gaverhopke (verhuist naar Waregem) gelegen in de Steenbruggestraat te Stasegem te verwerven om er te brouwen op een professionele manier. De corona-epidemie zorgde ervoor dat hun bier bekend en befaamd werd. Door dit succes werden ze verplicht om naar een nog groter pand uit te kijken en dit vonden ze op de Nelca-Site (de KMO-zone) te Lendelede waar ze in een 650m2 groot pand de capaciteit kunnen opdrijven tot ong. 3000 hl.
DOUZE HEAVEN HILL BA is een helder donker-rood bier dat een normale hoeveelheid beige schuim vormt in een dikke wollige vorm. Het blijft sterk aan je glaswand kleven en is normaal stabiel. Na wat gedronken te hebben heb je nog slechts een dun fijn laagje met wat open plekken op je bier staan. CO2 belletjes zijn niet te zien wegens de te donkere kleur van het bier.
HET AROMA:
Zoetig, chocolade, licht geroosterd, mout, hout en een lichte alcoholtint.
DE SMAAK:
Zoetig, rozijn, chocolade, mout, hout, vanille, een lichte alcoholtint en een bourbontint.
HET MONDGEVOEL:
Volle body en zeer licht bitterdroog. Een medium koolzuur prikkel.
DE NASMAAK:
Zoetig, een sterke chocoladetint, kruidig met hout en vanilletinten, een lichte alcoholtint, zeer licht droogje en een bourbontint. Het zoete vloeit samen met de chocolade wat uit.
HET TOTAALGEVOEL:
Een complex bier.
HET VERDICT:
Lekkere quadrupel zoals ik het graag heb, zoetig, wat alcohol en chocolade. De bourbonvaten vallen niet zo erg op.
Intresse gewekt? Dan vind je meer info samen met mijn sublieme foto’s bij:
http://www.beersfrombelgium.eu/nl/Douze_Heaven_Hill_BA-b-4564.html
Tried from Bottle from Poseidon Beers on 25 Jan 2023 at 14:07

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
13th September 2022
Hazy deep amber brown beer, small pale tan head. Esters on the nose. Palate starts smooth but develops a good fine minerally crispness. Smooth malts, a light creamy sweetness, good ripe caramel and a little toffee. Ripe fruits, prune and fig into some spicy over ripe plummy fruits and some more estery fruits. Light semi dry finish. A bit estery for a barleywine as in very estery, but somehow, it kinda works here. Like someone made a barleywine from a Quad. Dunno! But it's tasty and drinkable. Little brandy in there.
Tried on 19 Sep 2022 at 17:05

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Dark brown colour with lasting thin head. Full on malt sweetness. Nice body too. The bareel gives a subtle dryness and just a touch of vanilla.
Tried on 17 Jul 2022 at 22:17

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle from Beerbox.be. Hazy dark brown, stable, frothy, tan head. Aroma of red & green apple, raisin, pear, fig jam, wet wood, vanilla, peanut, bourbon. Taste has sweet red apple, pear & fig over caramelly maltiness, bit syrupy & phenolic. Herbal hoppy finish with dried fruit, wood, vanilla effect from that, and warming bourbon alcohol. Medium to full body, oily texture, average carbonation. Pleasant bourbon effect, but not necessarily better than the base beer.
Tried on 08 Mar 2022 at 16:33