Bucketlist Series N°3 : Ride A Bull
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Bock - Dunkler Bock Regular Out of Production|
Score
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is brown and dark malt with cocoa, chocolate, caramel, and soft roast. Lightly dried fruits. Bittersweet flavour, medium body. Tasty Bock with some welcome notes of chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at Fuggles Beer Cafe Tonbridge. Very deep ruby mahogany colour lasting beige head. Soft dark lager. Some spice on finish. Vanilla. I liked it. Has a good kick to it. Dark and red malts. Good drinkable dark lager.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Not much specific notes were taken ( sampled between ratebeer and brewver ) this one was an OK bock. Bit watery, not as flavorfull as the german ones i've had, but certainly a well made beer that's easy drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark brown colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have some caramel sweetness. Full bodied and well rounded. One of the better Autumn Bocks.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The Musketeers nous propose avec ce Ride a Bull un Bock quelque peu atypique avec notamment une fraîche amertume (EBU de 30) et des arômes herbacés qui ne sont pas dans les codes du genre. Cette bière est en cela intéressante. Il lui manque cependant une profondeur et une richesse qui sont les atouts majeurs de ce style. Pari à moitié gagné donc. En verre, l'ambré limpide (EBC de 40) est plutôt sympathique. Une mousse à sa surface aurait tout de même été appréciable. Le nez est sur le caramel, un chocolat relativement présent (il déclinera à la dégustation pour mieux se fondre à l'ensemble), la prune, la banane et avec un alcool qui est bien présent faisant un peu plus que ses 7,5 %. Nous retrouvons cette fraîcheur au nez, avec épices des herbes bien présentes (quasiment mentholé) en complément de chocolat, café, noisette et banane. En deuxième bouche l'alcool se développe, toujours avec cette fraîcheur déconcertante pour le style. L’arrière-bouche est même encore davantage fraîche et herbacée. Pas d'évolutions sur les arômes cependant. Le final, moyennement long (comme la corpulence) est sobre, davantage sur le caramel et le fruit. Le parti pris est intéressant, il faudrait l'enrichir toutefois.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Bierfestival Brugge 2019. Sampled draft. Amber. Nose is weird sweet stale malt and cobwebs. Taste is stale herbal malt with cobwebs, bitter weeds, medicinal, herbal, bready. Dull herbal bready affair. Meh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
The third one in the Musketeers' Bucket List Series, a dark 'bokbier' not coincidentally primarily sold on the Dutch market - the Netherlands, contrary to Belgium, have a well-known and well-described history of seasonal 'bokbieren' or Bock beers, of course. Attempted gusher but very slowly so, so completely manageable. Thick and frothy, foamy, bubbly, pale yellowish beige, tightly cobweb-lacing, bit irregular head over an initially clear, warm copper-coloured beer with deep vermillion-red hue, elegantly misty and somewhat deeper mahogany brownish but still basically red with the sediment added. Aroma of hazelnuts, hard caramel candy, old dry cookies, brown soap, halfripe banana and unripe medlar, earth and dry forest floor in summer, nutmeg, old chocolate dust sprinkled over equally walnut cake, dried mushroom touch, pan-fried ham and even very vague hint of (natural) rubber somewhere. Restrained fruity sweetness in the onset, half-green banana, apple peel and apricot impressions, malt fruitiness apparent from the start under medium strong, rather minerally carbonation; slick, resinous mouthfeel, bit soapy even, medium full. Hard-caramelly malt base, rather dry, with thoroughly nutty edges (pecan nut, hazelnut shell), a bit toasty-bitter, an aspect that becomes a bit more exposed in the finish when it teams up with an earthy and herbal hop bitterness. This combined bitterness lasts quite long and has a softly drying effect, but the caramelly-resinous sweetish malt factor also lingers a bit. Ends more bitter than sweet though, with a certain soapiness continuing, as well as powdery, phenolically spicy effect loosely reminiscent of old nutmeg powder. Interesting Bock, a bit more bitter and a tad more earthy than the average - 'commercial' - Dutch 'herfstbok', but in its general make-up more than credible, this could just as well have been made by a smallish to even medium large Dutch brewery… Musketeers are still doing well, especially now that they have inaugurated a brand new brewing house in my old Waasland region, but it did surprise me that they opted for a Dutch-style Bock to continue this Bucket List series, as there is as good as no audience for this in Belgium and not many Belgian breweries have attempted this (Achouffe must have been the first with their Chouffe Bok 6666, continued to this day under Moortgat if I am not mistaken). Not an unpleasant beer, but feels a bit clean and resinous even if this goes for most (traditional) Dutch Bocks as well; so far, this Bucket List still fails to make a lasting impression, contrary to those magnificent Special Editions of Troubadour Magma these sympathetic Musketeers make each year.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark red/brown colour, beige foam. Nose of caramel, dried fruit, some plums. Light roastiness. Good bock.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
sample @ Bruges Beer Festival 2019 day 2. F: medium, tan, average retention. C: coppery to brown, hazy. A: malty, bready, mellow fruity, leaves, bit toffee. T: medium malty backbone, bit mellow fruity, bready, toasty, dry on the palate, medium body and carbonation, nice balanced, enjoyed.