7.5

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

Fles thuis geprobeerd. Het is een helder amberkleurig bier met een volle beige schuim. Het heeft een aroma van mout, caramel en hout. De smaak is moutig, houtig en zachte vanille tonen.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle. Minimally milky, dark amber colour with ruby shimmer and average, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, sulphureous head. Sweet-ish, yeasty fruity aroma, slightly sugary, caramel malty background, hints of cherry, red berries, weak floral overtones with a touch of rose. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty, yeasty fruity and minimally woody and spicy, hints of cherry and red berries, a minimally tannic touch of oak, a touch of vanilla as well, mildly bitter hoppy counterpart; slightly warming, alcoholic finish.
Light body, watery texture, smooth and soft, silky, minimally cloying palate, medium, dense, soft, mildly prickly carbonation.
Relatively "thin", not overly complex, rather cautious oaky aspects - OK.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Flesje gedeeld met Hillig.
Amberkleurig licht troebel bier met flink schuim dat als een film blijft liggen.
Aroma van mout, caramel en hout.
Smaak licht fruitig met wat karamel.
Nasmaak heeft iets pittigs.

7.5

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

Bottle at home shared with Laura. Amber color, decent sized white to off-white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, a bit sweetish, wood, oak, caramalts. Quite nice actually. I like it

7.3

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

Already the sixteenth one in this Kompel Nostalgia Collection, keeping the memory of Limburgian coal mining history alive; the name is Limburg dialect and means “the last mine”, which in fact was the one at Zolder, closed in 1992. Egg-white, thick and dense, shred-lacing, stable head over a clear copper bronze robe with amber-orangey glow. Aroa of dry biscuit, pear, vanilla from the oak chips used, eau de vie, strawberry jam, blonde candi sugar, honey, caramel, ‘graanjenever’, some iron. Sweet, clean, rounded onset, lively carbonated, hints of banana, raspberry and strawberry, slick and smooth mouthfeel; slender caramelly core with blonde-sugary edges, a tad biscuity too, but also a bit metallic round the edges. Oak chips provide a background whiff of vanillin but hardly any ‘deeper’ flavour; more dryness comes from the alcohol, paired with a touch of soft floral hops. Ends quite boozy (jenever) with caramelly, sugary undertones. Feels like a very sleek, macro-brewed, mass-marketed and ‘short-cut’ version of La Trappe Quadrupel, with less body and less depth of flavour – a decent quad for the masses, so to speak, but feeling a bit, well, ‘incomplete’, something I have encountered in other Kompel ales as well. Maybe some ageing could turn this one more interesting?

5.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

8/III/25 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: X/2026 (2025-265) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear bright red beer, small creamy light beige head, a little stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: strawberry jam, caramel, malty, a bit yeasty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, yeasty, some banana, a gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: fruity, sugary, a bit hoppy, lots of alcohol, a bit yeasty, some banana peel, a bit medicinal, caramel touch, very mediocre beer, but no surprise after what I’ve already tasted from the Kompel series.

6

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

A clear reddish golden beer with a white head. Aroma of reddish malt, caramel, hints of strawberries. Taste of strawberries, oak, caramel, red malt.

4.5

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

Süffiger, süß vanilliger Beginn, Holzchips. Moderat gewürzig, geringfügig bitter, süß malziger Abgang, unrund. Naja... 9/6/8/6/8/6

7

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