Dickhead
Brouwerij 't Verzet in Anzegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.23
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TEJA (403) reviewed Dickhead from Brouwerij 't Verzet 4 months ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle shared by Thomas W, thanks.
Short tiny off white head.
Clowdy light golden color.
Fruity aroma.
Light fruity acidity.
Low bitterness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Dickhead from Brouwerij 't Verzet 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Belgian strong blonde brewed by Verzet for Belgian metalband Stake – in the still relatively young but thriving commercial tradition of bands with their own beer brands, and this band just happens to like Duvel apparently, prompting Verzet to take on this much-exposed Belgian style… Very curious about that. Thick, snow white, large-bubbled, foamy, shred-lacing head over an initially clear orange-golden robe, turning misty with sediment. Aroma alas strongly dominated by DMS (overcooked broccoli), otherwise displaying lightly toasted cereals, ‘jenever’, halfripe apricot, old bread crust, some banana, persimmon, dirty rubber tyres somewhere. Fruity, sweetish, cleanish onset, hints of peach and banana in a smooth way, touch of green pear, sharply carbonated (as can be expected from the intended style) with very minerally effect. Lean, slick mouthfeel, cereally, ‘heated’ malt-like core, less ‘light’ and bready than the average ‘edelbier’ (as this beer substyle was called by OBP back in the eighties and nineties). Lingering banana and residual-honey-sugary sweetness with retronasal DMS, a mild dosage of floral hops and warming whisky-like alcohol constitute the finish. Credible as an ‘edelbier’, if some macro-brewery with a much more ‘conventionally commercial’ mind than Verzet would have produced it - but I am very sensitive to DMS and found the finish a bit on the crude and boozy side when compared with some of the established examples in this range (Duvel, Hapkin, Satan variants, Sloeber, Filou, former Judas and so on), which has never fully been my personal cup of tea anyway. That said, I guess the commissioner is happy, because it does taste like just that kind of beer, no doubt about that. Verzet seems capable of mimicking the macro brewing idiom better than I thought…
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Dickhead from Brouwerij 't Verzet 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
8/III/25 - 33cl bottle as a gift, shared with Alengrin @ home, BB: 23/IV/26, BR104 (2025-267) Thanks to Bierridder for the bottle!
Clear yellow blond beer, big creamy solid white head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: bleh, DMS, dirty, weird, funky, yeast, some olives, banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty grains, hay, watery, gentle bitterness, pretty sweet, some vegetables, malty. Aftertaste: more malts, grains, sweet, celery, soft bitterness, hay, cow fodder, a little metallic, don’t like it at all.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Dickhead from Brouwerij 't Verzet 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draught Huge, bit irregular lightly yellowish head over yellow-golden beer, leaving textbook lace. Dry spices - coriander, chamomille - other grains/kernels. Again sweet & spicy. Finish is drier, but it sports a lot of restsugars. Again other grains, even such as buckwheat. Ever so slight acidity from the CO². Quite slick, medium carbonation, slightly oily feel. Seen the origins, I expected something out-of-the-box, but no, just a good, dry-ish Belgian strong blond.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Dickhead from Brouwerij 't Verzet 1 year ago