Tormales Winter
Dorpsweyden in Zoutleeuw, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Winter
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Score
6.68
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Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Tormales Winter from Dorpsweyden 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Huge yellow-brown, thick head, very stable, over deep red-higlighted brown beer. Sweet, meatroast, dark malts, dark wet wood, rainwater, dark green leaves and lots of molasses. Bitterish-woody taste with a sweet-ish basic flavour. Wet dog, wet wood. Green fruitpeel, some fruity esters and melanoidins. Diluted brown sugar solution with a pinch of spices. Aftertaste becomes more and more japwater, liquorice drink. Chewy, at least medium bodied, very carbonated. Blind? The umpteenth Walloon brune, utterly devoid of any interest.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Tormales Winter from Dorpsweyden 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
'Winter warmer' by a microbrewery in Zoutleeuw, a small city in the easternmost part of Flemish Brabant close to the border with the Limburg province. Pale greyish beige, shred-lacing, medium sized head over a clear dark caramel brown beer with burgundy red glow. Aroma of toasted brown bread, dry caramel, some liquorice, cinnamon, medlar, furniture wax, red apple, bayleaf, brown rum, slight pipe tobacco in the background. Cleanly sweet onset, brown sugar mixed with subtle notes of dried fig, red apple and baked banana with a touch of pear, medium carbonated with full and rounded mouthfeel. Dryish further on, with a brown-bready, dry-caramelly base gently bittered with a hint of toast, over which a more prominent spicing appears at just the right moment, consisting of cinnamon, clove and bayleaf impressions; moves on into warming, rum-like booziness without it overtaking the rest, carrying the spiciness and dark maltiness onwards, while unexpected but inoffensive umami notes of cooked turkey or dried pork appear. Spicy yet not as exuberantly so as I was fearing, with a basic balance and solidity I can appreciate from a beer as old-fashioned as this. Does its job, and does it right, in a focused, technically clean and balanced way. Not too shabby for a new(ish) microbrewery - at all.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed Tormales Winter from Dorpsweyden 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Kerstbier Festival. Very dark brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of caramelized dark malt, raisins. Taste of dried dark fruits, caramel, chocolate, spices, high carbonation.