80 Quercus
Brouwerij Kerkom in Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij CornelissenBelgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
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Score
6.69
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed 80 Quercus from Brouwerij Kerkom 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kerkom 80 Quercus (by Brouwerij Kerkom):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
30/XII/16 - 33cl bottle from Dranken Rotsaert @ Delft - BB: n/a, bottled: 16/IX/14 (2016-1521)
Clear orange beer, creamy irregular off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of ripe banana, sweet, sugary, some vanilla. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet, caramel, some banana, yeasty, bit malty. Aftertaste: sugary sweetness, yeast, banana, more sugary, soft bitterness. Meh.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed 80 Quercus from Brouwerij Kerkom 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle on 27th Nov 2016 in K&S Beer & Tobacco, Brugge. Picked from their chilled selection and opened in the tasting area mid-shop. Orange/amber body, wispy head. Caramel on toast with a glass of orange juice came to mind when smelling this beer. The taste also had a malty molasses and orange like in flavour: interesting and I though pleasant.
heavy (2937) reviewed 80 Quercus from Brouwerij Kerkom 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A 0.33 l bottle from Mali Ducan, Split. It poured a hazy orange body with a small yellow head. Weaker but interesting aroma, grainy, fruity with orange juice, elderflower, caramel, dark fruits, only a touch of each. Flavor was lightly sweet, mostly from simple sugary malts but also with fruity, orange and peach mostly. Yeasty and lightly spicy, coriander and other specific spices. Lightly alcoholic, too, but not much. Medium to full bodied with longer, spicy and again lightly sweet sugar and caramel finish. Warming. Could be more elaborated, quite a complex brew. Very nice and interesting!
Marko (22181) reviewed 80 Quercus from Brouwerij Kerkom 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
For some reason this was available at Mali Dućan Matejuška in Split, thanks heavy for getting it! Poured an orange-golden body with a small white head. Orange juice and bready notes in the aroma, grainy light alcohol. Malty taste, orange juice again, dusty, spicy, somewhat sugary. Very interesting, even unique beer, I liked it a lot!
Kraddel (15844) reviewed 80 Quercus from Brouwerij Kerkom 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours unclear dark blonde , ok white head. Smell is sweet, bit earthy . taste is sweet, some sugar. Bit earthy. It’s texhnically a blinde ( Color wise ) but tastes like a Brown. Bit caramel in the aftertaste. Interesting .
Alengrin (11609) reviewed 80 Quercus from Brouwerij Kerkom 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Strong spiced ale made to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Dranken Rotsaert, which is obviously the place where I bought this - and the only 33 cl bottle the owner allowed me to purchase individually instead of forcing me to buy them by four, now I can see why. Loose, irregular, off-white head with moussy edges but quickly dissipating elsewhere, deep peachy orange blonde colour, initially clear with very sparse dark yeast bits every now and then, hazy and more amber-like with deposit. Aroma strongly reminiscent of roasted peanuts, next to toasted bread, caramel, dry hay, rainwater, star aniseed indeed (but not overpowering, not even too aniseed-like, strangely), overly present brown rum and young ’jenever’ (two species of liquor I hate), damp cloth, chicory, banana, cooked turnip, old dusty ginger powder, completely dry orange peel, gin. Vividly fruity, mildly estery onset, sweet banana and peach along with dried berry notes, softish carbo, supple, resinous and lightly oily body, feeling lighter than 9% ABV; honeyish and very caramelly malt sweetness quickly turns into a deep ’toasted nuttiness’ but the honeyish and initial banana sweetness nevertheless remain. Finishes with retronasal ethereal spice (I assume this is the star aniseed but I have the impression there are clove-like phenols playing as well), a late and brief dash of leafy hop bitterishness but not enough to lend sufficient body to the aftertaste, and a strong glow of warming, even slightly burning, ’jenever’-like alcohol, which becomes astringent and tiresome on the root of the tongue. Kerkom is one of those quiet, underestimated breweries in this country and has achieved greatness at times, but in this case, I have no idea what they were intending to do; this is somewhat overspiced and in spite of its ABV, seems to lack a bit of body. Not well balanced is the least I can say about it. Worse even: it reminds me a bit of Leffe 9° - not a good reference in my book. The ’jenever’-like alcohol in particular makes this hard for me to swallow: I love a big, boozy beer, but only if it manages its alcohol content, and clearly that is not the case here. Aimed too high at ABV, I’m afraid, and the caramel sweetness doesn’t help to digest this.