Captain's Daughter

Dark amber colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have toasted malt and a little caramel sweetness. Flavoursome and well balanced.

(Draught at Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 17 Feb 2023) Reddish amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty nose with caramel, red fruit and treacle-toffee. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, red fruit, toffee and a mild spicy bitterness. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and well balanced. Nice one.

--Bottled, from Harlingen. -- Clear mahogany colour, small head. Malt aromatic nose with roses and toast. Mid sweet with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Chewy, perfumy, somewhat caramelly malt. Mid bitter finish. Interesting.

Frisian amber beer, oddly encountered in De Kleine Kunst, a café in the Ghent Heirnis quarter (located next to the Stroom brewery) – but I suppose the new owners of this café being Dutch, has something to do with it. Frothy, egg-white, creamy and moussy, stable head, warm and deep pure orange-amber robe, as good as clear. Aroma of wet toast, roasted peanuts, clear iron (confirmed by the ‘hand test’), dried thyme, tea, autumn leaves, dried orange peel, apricot kernels, fried tomato, hard caramel, candied peach, Graham crackers. Sweet, candied apricot in the onset, even a touch of candied cherry, quite sharply carbonated; rounded and bit ‘glueish’ mouthfeel. Caramelly and lightly peanutty malts with a lovely, refined toasty edge, but also something bubblegummy and then of course that metallic aspect; quite a lot of residual sweetness as well. Tea-like herbal hops in the end offer only mild ‘counterbitterness’, but admittedly match well with that softly toasty character of the malts; still, due to the bitterness underachieving, the finish feels a bit thin. Smooth, easygoing quencher with a pretty malt character, subsequently marred by the addition of iron for head stabilization (I suppose) and too much sweetness. I am a bit ‘in dubio’ here, this beer has good and less good qualities, so let’s give it the benefit of the doubt.

On tap @ Bierfestival Groningen. Generalized review and rating due to losing my notes.

33cl Fles, rechtstreeks uit fles, dank Arnoud! Geur is redelijk neutraal, ambermout, wat caramel, licht metalig, smaak is erg zoet, veel caramel en suiker, ranja, bosvruchten, licht kruidig. Niet voor mij.

330ml bottle. Cloudy, dark amber colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, sulphureous head. Mellow malty, slightly fruity hoppy and dusty, yeasty spicy aroma, Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty and fruity hoppy, notes of red and yellow apple, red berries, a touch of cherry. Watery texture, indifferent palate, medium to lively, prickly carbonation. Nice, relatively manifold fruitiness, maybe a tad too sweet and overcarbonated - decent.

Fles geprobeerd op vakantie met LiekevdV. Het is een licht troebel amberkleurig bier met een volle schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige wat fruitige en grassige geur. De smaak is moutig, zacht, zoetig met tonen van rood fruit.

Magus, kuiv, karamelline ämber eil. Okish.

Sweet, malty, dusty, grainy, shy hops