Corbillard Danse Macabre
De Zwarte Bron in Sint-Pauwels, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.97
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Benzai (24515) reviewed Corbillard Danse Macabre from De Zwarte Bron 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home shared with Laura. Medium to dark brown colored beer with a medium sized beige head. Aroma is malts, brown candy sugar. Flavor is malts, sweetish, candy sugar, malt bitters. Medium body, decent to medium carbonation. Alright.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Corbillard Danse Macabre from De Zwarte Bron 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
New version of Corbi-Art, the quadrupel it all began with for Zwarte Bron's forerunner Weerspannige Brouwers, with tweaked recipe. Thick and dense, foamy, creamy, membrane-lacing, yellowish pale beige, stable head on a clear, deep bronze-caramel brown robe with mahogany glow. Aroma of hard caramel candy, fresh and actual ripe pear, sirop de Liège, strong green apple peel, fresh fig, unsugared chewing gum, toffee, freshly cut grass somewhere, dark honey, calvados, fresh halfripe blue plums, beef stock, fresh dates, furniture wax, 'appeljenever', hints of 'Koetjesreep' and dried basil. Sweet onset in a ripe-fruity way, lots of ripe Doyenné pear and Jonagold apple with even that waxy, rounded malic acid touch, hints of medlar and fresh fig, softish carb with full, rounded, slick mouthfeel. Deeply caramelly malt body with toffeeish and vaguely chocolatey edges, touch of brown bread dough, all carrying forward this apple-pear combo of actually added fruitiness to a warming finish, where the fruit combines with the alcohol in a notably calvados-like alcohol warmth, sustained by lingering caramelly malts and a dash of leafy, earthy hops, lingering at the back and providing a much-needed balancing bitter element, reinforced by a certain astringency from the pear-apple addition (the peels, I guess). Warming, pear-, apple- and caramel-flavoured finish - a bit like previous Corbi-Art embodiments, but seemingly amplified, especially in the apple and pear department. Something beef stock-like lingers retronasally. I recall Aubel's apple ales from a time when the brewer of this beer and myself started venturing into the beer world and liking them quite a lot, even if I am not the biggest apple fan out there; this apple-and-pear quad manages to showcase both fruits extensively, while retaining its own basic caramelly and boozy quadrupel character. Opens up in complexity as it warms, but still: if you love the smell of fresh apple and pear (peel) in the morning, this is one for you. Indeed a kind of 'fortified' and intensified version of the classic Corbi-Art (already containing at least the pear), but it is mainly the fruit which is fortified instead of the malts and hops - I would rather have seen it the other way around, perhaps, though this is a mere personal appreciation. In general, this beer is doubtlessly very well made, and fits Zwarte Bron's current focus on thick, heavy, lush 'bières de dégustation' perfectly. I wonder how this one would evolve within a few years.