Tap pour at Eric the Red. Shared by vinivini. Aroma is dried fruits, dates, malt. Taste is medium sweet, dried fruits, molasses. Indeed quite Belgianesque.

Opaque dark brown. Small ivory head. Aroma: fruit esters, malts, vinous notes. Full body. Average carbonation. Taste: fairly fruity, estery, light to medium sweet. In a blind tasting I would guess for a Belgian strong dark ale. Still it tasted well.

Caña en el Gato que quería más Ibus Valladolid 21.. 03..2019. (r19l Color oscuro marrón casi negro turbio con espuma beige que desaparece al poco casi por completo. Sabores intensos con Maltas tostadas con buena dosis de caramelizados también tostados y algo quemados acabando con un final seco amargo lupulado que permanece en boca un buen rato. Cuerpo medio a intenso con buena sensación alcohólica desde el principio. Bastante sabor. Seca al final. Una Barley wine que se asemeja en momentos a una black ipa. Bastante buena para repetir.

16th March 2019
Can. A black barleywine with candied fruits? Catnip to a beer geek like me! Opaque dark brown beer, good pale tan head. Smooth and slightly soft palate, decent fine carbonation. Smooth sweet dark malts, good dose of semi sweet dark chocolate. Trace of sweet coffee liqueur. Mellow candy fruits. Touch of alcohol spice. Smooth and rich but if you told me this was an Impy, I would believe you!

Enorm moutig, bijna weeïg. Wat roast, gedroogd fruit, maar vooral karamel en weeïge mout. Licht scherpe alcohol. Eigenlijk vrij matig

Dark barleywine with candied fruit, can from De Bierkoning in Amsterdam, shared on the train ride to Lelystad with Craftmember, Goedele and Antonia. Collab of two of Western Europe's best young craft breweries, seems like nothing can go wrong here... Mousy, quite tightly lacing, medium thick, stable, yellowish pale beige head, very dark caramel brown beer with warm bronze-mahogany hue. Aroma of candied plum, marmalade, butterscotch, brown rum, raisins, cola, soy sauce, coffee powder, toffee, hay. Sweet onset with a light sourish edge, lots of sweet raisin and candied fig, hint of ripe blue grape somewhere as well as a vague soy sauce-like umami accent; medium carb, full and vinous, bit resinous mouthfeel. Hard caramelly and pecan-nutty middle, sweet but with a bittering, toasty edge; old raisin, liquorish and coffee powder accents in the finish with spicy, grapefruity hops, as boasted on the can, still being apparent, acquiring a somewhat marmalade-like character due to them being drenched in sweet maltiness. Very pleasantly (citrusy) hopped indeed, rich and bittersweet but somehow surprisingly dry in the mouth based on what one would expect from the primarily sweet nose - quite a surprising, complex, well-crafted and 'artistic' beer, worthy of both its parents' quality status.