Duivelsbier van Halle
Brouwerij Vander Linden in Halle, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.27
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Ruby brown color. Small frothy head. Aroma has honey and tropical fruit. No sourness at all, which is surprising. Caramel and sherry. Watery and a hint of metal in the finish. Some milk chocolate. Very unusual beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Bottle ( 25 cl ) . The backlabel ( if there ever was any ) is missing, and I see no date anywhere on bottle or cap. Presumable around 2000 ??? Pours very dark, nearly black, even. Small white head. Smell is sharp, very port-like sweetness. Taste is mostly oxidation, mildly metallic ( builds up towards the back ) very watery MF. Very mild carbo. There’s an incredibly small aspect of what seems to be funk , but it’s very hidden. Overall, think of oxidized water. Over it’s prime, but probably wasn’t the best one to begin with ?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tasted many years ago from tap. Deep hazy copper coloured beer with thin head and very estery-fruity flavour, in which honeyish and lots of fruity sweetness, citrussy acidity and lactic acid blend together nicely; sweet-sourish finish, drying and refreshing. Typical old school regional beer rooted in lambic culture, too bad it isn’t made anymore today; the Duivelsbier that succeeded it, is a totally different product.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Old bottle at Akkurat. Almost clear, red/brown liquid with medium light brown head. Aroma of raw sugar, vinegar, some alcohol, toffee and port/cardboard oxidization. Not too enjoyable. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with notes of raw sugar, vinegar, dark fruit, cardboard, toffee and port wine. Medium bodied with low carbonation. Not in particularly good shape.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Old rating
Found an old rating, one of the first I ever wrote down back in ’98. Think I didn’t realise it was a Faro back then. The points and total score loose all meaning, especially as I used different scale/criteria back then. Just putting it here to preserve the memory and for the quirkiness of it.
Dark brown colour, slight brownish head. Aroma rather sweet, like honey, caramel, bit sour and fruity. Flavour rather (too) sweet, molasses, caramel, no hops bitterness. Quite one-dimensional.
(From 25cL bottle)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Old bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a particle filled brown body with a tan head. Aroma is minty, raisins, light alcohol, flowers, brandy and wet leaves. Flavors of banana esters, nutty, woodsie and oxidized. Light acidity.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
28th July 2008. Smooth and light dark beer. Low carbonation. Milk chocolate with malt and a trace of sour marmite.Very smooth.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
250 ml bottle. Red/brown body with almost no head. Quite fruity aroma with cellar notes. Flavor is dry bitter, a bit acidulous, with notes of caramel and dry fruit. A bit strange, traces of elements from a lambic, and also something from a Belgium red. Definitive a Belgium beer, harmonic but not usual.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled, original from Vanderlinden at least 20 years old, probably more. Cloudy amber, small airy head. Citrusy and vinegary lambicish nose. Very dry with lots of barnyard. The Brettanomyces is very evident. The body is light and the mouthfeel still lively. The acidity reaches near Cantillon-style levels. It is starting to thin out, going on it’s last few years as an alive beer, so it has a slight metaliic edge. Still it’s beauty is there, and the flavours are intense and complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
A red-brown beer with no head. The aroma is weird soru with notes of caramel and wood. The flavor is thin with notes of raisins, prunes, and wood, leading to a dry end.