Bottled. An amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of spices, malt, caramel, and fruit. The flavor is very sweet with notes of spices, malt, caramel, and alcohol, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.

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Bottle, 7.2%. Slight vegetable aroma, also a little sweet. Cloudy brown colour, small, tan, lacy head. The flavour also has a little veg and some rough hops. Yeasty aftertaste. There is some malt flavour, but not really great. Also not really great mouthfeel. Mellows out a bit as it warms, turning OK.

Synthetic modern cork
Hazy amber color. Mild aroma, the flavor is much stronger, with good caramel and strong bitterness. Straight but good Strong Ale.

Clear pink-amber beer, well and finely carbonated to huge and very dense off-white head. Seriously spicy nose - however... There’s wild fruit, and somehow, both in colour and nose, a slightly unripe pomegranate comes to mind. Pepper, coriander, and maybe some barkspice, but not... Bitter-spicy taste: the bitterness ending in a very sharp, purely wood-spice bitterness, with no hops detectable, maybe some bitter almonds and acorns. Again some fruitiness, however subject to the acute spicy overdraught. The sharp bitterness goes on long. Not really very full bodied, the ABV taken into account. There’s a thinness about it, that sits a bit uneasy with all the raw flavours. This is the beer of the missed opportunity. What the disclaimer above fails to relate, is that the very first Dikkenek was not by Affligem BDS, but by brewery Martens; and, as Kerkom, they added juniperberries (the jeneverbes from the label). Unlike the Kerkom try, there it was very clearly tasteable, balanced by a jumble of sweet and dark malts - and good it was too, even when it was based on a bottom-fermenting beer. Here, alas, the spicyness is too undescript, and hence, less interesting. There’s the explanation for all triple stops above.