330ml bottle. Clear, copper-ish brown colour with small, creamy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Sweet-ish, slightly fruity, malty aroma, minimally bready, hints of dried fruit, raisin, baked banana. Taste is minimally sweet malty, slightly chocolately, dry overtones of fruit parings, apple, maybe a touch of raisin. Slightly inharmonious, incongruous.

Bottle 330ml. [ As Jopen Vruchtenbok Vijgen ].Clear medium to dark red brown color with a large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, candy, sugary, caramel, artificial, figs, almonds. Flavour is heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long to average duration, artificial sweet, figs syrup, sugary, artificial. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is soft. [20141024]

Bottle. It pours a finger-thick dark beige head leaving some lacings over a lightly unclear dark amber to brown body with some microfloaties. The aroma is very perfumed, with marzipan, cherry hints and sugar. Sweet, lightly sugary flavor with marzipan, cherry notes, dried fruits and something perfumed. Full body and a nice carbonation. Lasting finish. Sure unusual this one, a bit too perfumed, but nice. The figs just lurking in the background. 141024

Bottle 330ml @ fonefan
Pours slightly hazy reddish brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, dark dried fruits, raisin and figs. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light bitter with a long sweet dried fruity and caramel finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily to sticky, carbonation is soft.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, fruity, marzipan, sugary and figs. Flavor is very sweet. Sweet finish. 241014

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Mitra Beilen. Ruby red brown with a beige head. Malt and caramel aroma. Sweet date taste with roasted malts and some coffee. Good strong, not too sweet taste.

On keg at Jopenkerk Haarlem and last of the night - Cloudy murky brown body, with a thin off white head and some broken lace. The aroma is rich cherries, lots of dark cake fruits. The flavour is very sweet with a rich creamy caramel toffee marzipan taste. Great syrupy mouthfeel, but not one I could finish in a rush when we were asked to leave for closing time.

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Mitra Beilen. Clear dark reddish brown with a very thin off-white head. Caramel aroma with roasted malts and some raisins. Taste is not overly sweet and rounded. A nice bock but the raisins seem a bit superfluous, some good dunkler bocks or darker Belgian ales also have a raisin aroma even without using them.

Bottle. Has quite a heavy smell of smokey peat. This is dominant in the taste as well. The aftertaste is a bit boozy. Body is a bit thin for a laphroaig aging, it’s overwhelming everything else. Decent beer, needs more balance.

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Mitra Beilen. Brown with a beige head. Aroma of sweet toffee and figs. Taste is overwhelming sweet. Figs dominate all with a cloying sweetness just behind that. Normally Jopen is a standard for quality but this one is a sticky mess in my opinion.