7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle in 't Brugs Beertje on 5th September 2022, and again on 11th November 2025. Dark brown body, mini haze; thin off-white head. Boozy and sweet from start to finish, a proper 'Winter Warmer'.

7.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home. Autumnal red brownish color, quickly disappearing beige head. Aroma is malts, somewhat bready notes, sweet. Flavor is malts, sweetish, sweetish grainy, light raisins maybe. Flavor dissolves rather quickly. Decent to medium body, okay carbonation.

6

33cl bottle. A hazy reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of dried fruits, caramel, raisins. Taste of raisins, dried fruits, caramel, spruce.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

10 April 2022. At 14de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke & Pieter!

Asked for the Dead Sun Rising at the White Pony stand and ended up with a clear to hazy amber beer. My guess is the WP associate misunderstood me and I ended up with another Death is Life.
Anyway, impressions of pear, plum, fig, caramel, port wine. Taste has sweet fig, pear, raisin and caramel; tad spicy over biscuity, brioche-like maltiness. Herbal hoppy finish with dried fruit, spices and warming brandy-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Still likeable.

Original rating: 6/7/8/8/7.5=7.4
1 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Kevin, Niels & Cynthia!

Hazy amber, unstable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of toffee, dried orange peel, biscuit, mocha, milk chocolate, liqueur, red apple, green tea. Taste has sweet toffee, biscuit, dried apricot & red apple, sugared green tea (herbal but apparent residual sugar too, as expected), nutty & spicy backbone with cake-like & caramelly maltiness. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, lingering toffee & dried fruit with hefty warming herbal liqueur-like alcohol. Medium body, syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Roughly executed Scotch, typically White Pony but I must say I enjoyed drinking it.

6

Sweet, malty, caramel, lemon candy, sugary

7

Suikerig, zoet, plakkerig. Een soort likbal maar dan vloeibaarder.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle from koht. Pours amber. Aroma and flavor are sweet, malty, caramel, dirty, boozy, sugary, fruity, sugary, boozy. Overall: sugar water that gets you drunk!

7

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

White Pony's rather extravagant interpretation of a 'wee heavy', stronger than is typically the case in this style and hopped with American hops, though sadly the label fails to mention which ones. New batch made at Het Nest in a 'trappist' bottle - apparently it was brewed by Fort Lapin before, and bottled in steinie bottles, so there is no doubt that this beer has undergone some or other evolution meanwhile. Medium thick, irregularly membrane-lacing, eggshell-white, mousy head slowly showing gaps here and there, but generally well-retaining especially seen the ABV; initially near-clear, warm and pure coppery-orange amber robe with fine strings of fizz, looking lighter than average for the style, turning equally misty amber with sediment. Aroma of fudge and (strong) caramel candy, figs soaked in 'jenever', brown rum, biscuit cake, vague 'wet dog', Werther's Original butter candy, hints of orange zest, peanuts and even (faintly) peanut butter, cooked apple, cloves, cooked cinnamon, chewing gum, vague background notes of hot cloth and wet clay. Fruity, relatively 'cleanly' estery onset, some banana, cooked apple, peach and fresh fig, sweet with residual sugars sticking a bit to the teeth, sourish undertone, lively carbonation with minerally side notes, full and creamy mouthfeel made a bit more harsh than necessary due to alcohol which is apparent early on. Rounded, slick but mouth-filling caramelly and slightly buttery maltiness with some of those fruit and mineral aspects surfing on top, light nutty sides and a thin breadiness to it (the 'Belgian twist', I reckon), with a toasty bitterish touch in the end yet not strongly so; lots of heating booze in the end, rum-like, sweet and a bit astringent but tempered by the soft, caramelly, creamy malt sweet character. Hops come in late but are noticeable as a vaguely citrus peel-like and peppery bitter touch, enlarged by the alcohol's natural wryness; sweetness - of a primarily caramelly and sugary nature - lingers as well as that nutty malt aspect, and some Belgian clove-like phenols lurk around the corner. The residual sugars even still stick to the teeth after swallowing. More a barleywine the English way than a true Scotch - for which it lacks a bit in dark maltiness and toastiness. Not an unpleasant sipper at all, but a bit on the crude side due to its overt booziness, exaggerated residual sweetness and the buttery and 'cooked' aspects of it; I expected a bit more to be honest, considering how most of White Pony's beers have significantly improved ever since they started brewing at Het Nest, even to the point that I am considering re-ratings of classic White Pony beers that have made the transition to the new Nest trappist bottles. I am left wondering what an 'imperial' Scotch ale would be like with more of the 'true' and trusted Scotch character preserved, this one turns out to be a classic barleywine for me - thus being unable to answer that question.

6.8

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

Fruity and a touch of cedar notes. Cloudy copper with a decent beige head. Cedar and malty notes with a long malty finish.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Courtesy of Daniele, tag on the cap 11/09/17
Dark amber color, clean. The aroma reminds me of strong Belgian beers from the 90's, some esters, caramel but not very exciting. Good body strength, sweet, with good malt and caramel flavor, fruity esters, light wood (or smoke?), hint of fudge, and warm alcoholic finish.
Good.