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

750ml from their April bottle club. Duvel glass @home. Cloudy, pale gold. Big but lightweight & faltering whitewash head. Smell is fresh hay, sweet cooked apples, lemon, white grape, warming booze. It's strong but not obvious what kind of barrel(at least to me it isn't). Taste is a quick hit of sharp apples, dry grass & bitter aspirin. Booze & yeasties in between. Salt water. Lemon & bitter white grapefruit pith finish. Most all the apples are dessert or utility apples, so the barrels are something of a necessity. Sort of get a better feel for it by glugging a mouthful after every fresh pour. There's some roundness to the texture that's missed on a quick sip. Not super feeling this one. Very boozy for only(supposedly) 8.5%. Great carbonation as always, bottle conditioned. Yeasties soften the blow, but the aspirin is obvious. Only okay. The expectations are pretty high with this brand.