75 cl. bottle shared with Suus, Hilde and Brent @ Alex and Suus. Hazy yellow with a white head. Yeasty fruity aroma with some whisky. Taste is sweet with a medium bitter finish. Throughout it all the whisky is present, in aroma, taste and finish without being too dominant. Very pleasant barrel aged tripel.

Après la Madness, la brasserie Het Nest vient de nous gâcher une nouvelle fois notre Schuppenboer. Si pour la Madness, c'était l'ajout de fruit qui avait malmené la triple, ici c'est la maturation en fût qui vient la malmener. Heureusement d'ailleurs qu'il est indiqué que le vieillissement est en fût de whisky, car difficile de le reconnaître. Pire, la maturation en fût vient complètement faire perdre l'équilibre de la bière que ce soit l'équilibre aromatique ou l'équilibre structurel avec notamment une petite acidité. Sur le visuel, nous sommes sur un blond doré légèrement trouble sans mousse. Le nez est sur le citron, les céréales et le fût de chêne. Difficile d'être alors emballé, et la dégustation ne fera malheureusement pas mentir le nez… L'attaque reprend ces arômes de fût de chêne sans réellement avoir ceux de whisky mais alliée à une petite acidité. Du miel, des épices, et des céréales complètent le tableau. La deuxième ne séduit pas davantage, plus douce avec de la banane et une touche d’ananas, elle présente également un alcool chaleureux tout en été quelque peu dissonant. L'arrière complètement déséquilibrée et peu appréciable. Enfin, le final est long mais s'affaisse, toujours sur ces arômes de fut de bois qui prédominent. Quelle sera la prochaine torture que subira notre Schuppenboer ?

28/04/2018 – 10cl glass shared with an international ratebeer crew @ZBF2018 Clear dark yellow, no head. Nose is sweet malts, alcohol, fruit. Taste is sweet, malty, banana, boozy, bit wood

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy woody yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty woody whisky flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy woody whisky finish.

Süßlich malziger angenehm holzig herber Beginn. Geringfügig nach Whisky, moderat würzig, etwas Alkohol. 7/9/8/7//8

Sample at ZBF 2018, thanks Belgian RB table. Dorée, pas de col. Arôme de whisky léger, notes belges dans l'approche levure, petite touche de fruits fermentés, caramel. Palais est dans une lignée belge niveau levure, whisky en retrait avec un petit apport doux, finement collant aux lèvres. Le caractère du whisky en tant que tel reste discret, retrouve une base de triple, sur effet houblonné noble - fleuri et finement citronné.

Tap. Slightly hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is booze, whisky, phenols. Taste is booze, whisky, apples and pears. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Quite overdone.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A clear golden beer. Aroma of oak, vanilla, strong pale malt. Taste of strong riped fruits, yellow fruits, citrus hops, vanilla and oak.

Bomber from Fontana, Sint-Niklaas. Medium thick, snow white, stable head lacing in 'dots' over an initially lightly hazy, peach blonde beer with ochre-ish hue, misty with sediment. Aroma of banana, cold potato mash, tulips, cream, camomile, bubblegum, overripe pineapple, apple peel, yellow raisins, something vaguely vanilla-ish, pear and indeed a whiff of whisky. Sweet onset, strong banana ester, apricot, pineapple, sourish touch, a tinge of green plums, medium carbonation, supple and smooth, bit creamy mouthfeel. Pleasant bready malt sweetishness, honeyish sugariness on top, tad caramelly, floral and little bit grassy, earthy hop bitterness in the finish, drenched in a long, warming but not astringent, quite subtly whisky-flavoured alcohol effect. Update of what is basically a sweet Belgian tripel, but a good one at that, this is precisely wat Het Nest is really good at. Enjoyed this one. --- Beer merged from original tick of SchuppenBoer - Belgian Owl Whiskey Barrel Aged on 01 Dec 2021 at 12:47 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Whisky barrel aged version of Het Nest's standard tripel, allegedly close to a formidable 15% in ABV... Egg-white, regularly shaped, bit creamily textured, slowly breaking and eventually disappearing head on an immediately cloudy peach blonde beer with slight "off-orangey" tinge. Aroma of freshly cut apples and soggy apple cake, ripe pear, banana, sugar loaf, indeed some fruity and sweetish whisky (Oban), honey, Paschka (sweet cheese spread), some wet wood but very subtle, canned peaches, apricot jam, hint of dried bitter plants faraway in the background, weird hint of sweaty feet. Sweet onset, banana, canned peach and pear, medium carb, full and smooth body; lots and lots of residual, honeyish sugariness over a slick bready and very lightly caramelized malt sweet core, apple cake aspect continuing throughout, ending with a light herbal note (even something very faintly eucalyptus-like) and a warming, eventually only briefly and lightly astringent booziness, only distantly reminiscent of whisky. The sweetness, meanwhile, stays around and even sticks a bit in the end. Not my cup of tea, way too sweet and boozy, but admittedly better than expected; as someone hinted at below, the drinkability of this beer is such that I very strongly doubt this beer being as strong as the brewery claims... --- Beer merged from original tick of SchuppenBoer - Wine Barrel Aged on 28 Feb 2017 at 13:58 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: New variation on Nest’s Schuppenboer theme, bottle shared at RBBWG 2017. Frothy, snow white, cobweb-lacing, stable head, hazy golden robe with ochre tinge. Aroma of banana, sweet white wine, soggy cerelas, gooseberry, quite obtrusive DMS (cooked white cabbage) bothering me, pineapple, cooked turnip, pear, rhubarb, wet oak somewhere, white port, grape peel, grass. Fruity, mildly estery onset, peach, pear, pineapple, moderate banana ester, sourish berries underneath, smooth and lightly creamy, cereally malt middle, tad bready, sweet white wine flavors taking over in the end with grapey tartness but softly so, warming Kirsch-like alcohol, some pleasant drying woodiness. Very pleasant taste profile, but too bad for the DMS in the nose.