Stripbier 2004 Chocolade Wit (Barbara Stok)
Jopen in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Witbier Series Out of Production|
Score
5.91
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
75 cl bottle, for the Stripdagen Haarlem 2004. Chocolade bier, the painted label says. Bought in the Mitra in Hengelo. Very light colored, a bit hazy, big frothy head. Blackcurrant aroma and flavor. I can taste some milk chocolate, but it’s berries all over. Sweet and somewhat artificial, but OK, it’s drinkable
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bizarre take on the witbier theme, supposed to taste like white chocolate and originally called Barbara Stok Stripbier. Very strong gushing which leads to an almost uncontrollably rocky head - and, expectedly, a very strong carbonation in the mouth. Cloudy straw blonde colour. Aroma extremely unusual, in fact one of the most unusual I ever encountered, perfumed, citrussy, indeed chocolatey, sour cream, wheat sourness... More of the same in the mouth - if you can get past the exagerrated carbonation - with wheat base, orange peel, yoghurt, chocolate. Though I am open to bizarre ’out of the box’ beers like this, I cannot help feeling this could have done a lot better and more balanced - but it’s hard to set any standard against something like this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
A light yellow beer with a huge white head. The aroma contains loads of lemon, vanilla, rice, and cream, while the flavor is a combination af chocolate and lemon, with a dry end. The body is thin, while the mouthfeel is prickling the tongue.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Explosive gushing to very pale yellow beer with faint haze, and towering masses of snow-white head. Perfumed-spicey nose with coriander, patchouli, citrus, citruspeel, laosroot, nutmeg - and white chocolate, though that is probably suggestion. Weird perfumed-tart taste, very dry, a tad lactic, again (dry) citrus and unidentifyable spices. Some hints of sweetness, no bitterness. Very carbonised and dry at the same time. Beer has virtually no aftertaste, flavours simply vanish. Remarkable. Compared to the Floris Chocolate from their Huyghe buddies, this is heaven.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
The cork blasted off upon opening. I thought i had it covered, but it found its way to the ceiling with some speed!Hazy light yellow color, big white head. Aroma is very sour of pineapple and lemon. Jopen says to have used white chocolate, and maybe there is a hint of white chocolate in aroma and taste, but the sweet sour lemon juice and pineapple taste dominates. Quite watery and sweet beer. Not a success though.