5.8

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

Ganz okay, in Nase und Trunk Karamell, vorne noch ein Schwank Getreide, recht malzig. Zum Burger passt das immer.

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

75cl bottle in the Jilles Brugge burger bar, had to pay because neither my wife nor I are ginger haired. Bottle conditioned, so hazy pour to the Orange/ginger body, decent off-White head. Some distant spicy notes in both the nose and taste, nothing offensive but also nothing exciting or different to set it apart from run of the mill Belgian beers.

5.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Slightly irregular, very dense & fine cream-coloured head, stable, and fed by finely carbonated hazy, dull-amber beer. Toasted malts, arachide, fatty acids, chocolate, rootspices. Sourish & bitter, again lots of chocolate, as in the finish there's still quite some restsugars. The sourish edge goes again towards fatty acids. On top of that, the rest is unidimensional. There might be some coriander there, but anyway overpowered by the chocolate notes. Good carbonation, adding some extra acidity; very slick, but not much more than medium bodied. No. Definitely a no.

6

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

5.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy amber colour, white foam. Caramel, banana, harsh bitterness, lots of unripe vegetables, banana peel. Unbalanced spices. Meh, not very nice.

6.2

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

Gezapft bei Jilles Burger in Brügge. Klares Bernstein, fester kleinporiger Schaum. Aroma: Süßliches Malz, etwas Frucht (Erdbeere). Geschmack: Malzig, etwas metallisches. Karamell

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Steini bottle from the Carrefour hypermarket in Oostakker near Ghent. Apparently a beer commissioned by the ginger-headed female owner of a burger bar in Brugues and from what I read, this lady allows fellow ginger heads to drink one of these for free... Medium thick, lightly lacing, egg-white, stable head (slowly showing gaps in the middle) over a clear and indeed very pure, bronze-hued amber coloured beer. Aroma of old dry cookies, hard butterscotch candy, rainwater, old dried red apple peel, iron, old bread crust, very strong (even bath foam-like) soap likely due to coriander seed, bubblegum, very old peppermint candy or even aspirin, honey-glazed red apple, ginger powder, raw red cabbage, moist white pepper, dried orange peel. Fruity onset, clear banana ester sweetness (even very bubblegummy in this case), hints of peach and strawberry, very thin sourish hint, lots of residual white candi sugar sweetness but nothing really cloying, minerally aspects, supple mouthfeel. Caramelly, soapy and almost resinous middle, malt sweet with spicy, clove-ish phenols here and there, soapiness increasing in the end due to a strong dosis of coriander seed; the iron flavor, already apparent in the nose, lingers around everywhere and becomes a bit bothersome in the end. Finishes in more malt sweetness, more coriander and more iron, along with an earthy, ’deep’, floral, bit grassy but still clearly insufficiently bittering dash of hoppiness, too low to lend body to the aftertaste. Clearly a malt-forward, banana ester-ridden and shamelessly ’overcoriandered’ Belgian ale which is nevertheless technically fine, but lacking in depth, hops and personality to distinguish itself from an array of similar beers. Reminds me a bit of Mokke Ros from Antwerp, both in concept and in general profile, but in a soapier, heavily overcoriandered, sweeter and less balanced version.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Pours rather clear, dark amber. Good white head. Smell is rich, aromatic ambermalts, not really sweet, but has got a mild bitter touch to it ( in a far away distance ) Taste is more clearly bitter. Crispy ambermalt, very aromaticly so ( and I like this taste a lot , actually ). Nice intensity. perhaps a bit simple, but a very nice beer, especially for a random amber 6 % beer. Nice one ! carbonation is a bit to high for me, but the mouthfeel is nice enough to cover that problem.

6

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Rostekop (by Fort Lapin):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

11/XI/15 - 33cl bottle from Jilles (Brugge), €4 @ home - BB: 27/VII/17 (2015-1551)

Clear deep orange to amber beer, creamy irregular off-white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of caramel, malty, some overripe banana, bit spicy, some cloves. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little sourish, malty, grains, bit fruity, citrus, hint of caramel. Aftertaste: spicy, bit sour, bitter, unripe banana peel, bitter touch, somewhat malty, overripe banana, lots of spices, cloves, hoppy bitterness.