Bottle at Billie’s. Clear golden color. Herbal aroma. Taste is earthy almost salty. One of the best Belgian goses I’ve had.

Bottle of 75 cl, with hangtag. Shared at RBBWG 2017. Gusher, with foam creeping out of the bottle neck for a brief while after pouring. Very rocky, ’papery’ lacing, coarse, pale beige head, inches thick at first; black robe with mahogany, cloudy edges, otherwise as good as opaque. Aroma of moldy nut shells fermenting on a damp forest floor, forest mushrooms, wet ’fondant’ chocolate, lots of clove-like phenols probably accentuated by a hint of peat, which otherwise remains very vague, equally vague wet wood, charred pork, horse meat, dried fig, banana, parsley, redcurrant, apple peel. Estery onset, hints of banana, pear and fig with redcurrant sourish undercurrent, fizzy and sharp carbonation (clearly related to the gushing), much sharper than expected in the style and effectively overcarbonated; nutty and toasted malt bitterness with sweetish toffeeish core, ’generic’ coffeeish black roasted bitterness in the end, sourish too somewhere, phenolic and estery till the end, peat touch enhancing the phenolic spiciness again, hint of wood tannins, earthy hop bitterness, warming whisky-like alcohol. Very clearly overcarbonated, a bit ’dirty’ in its yeastiness, not clean enough and only faintly whisky barrel aged, with just a vague hint of peat - Laphroaig is far away. Nice attempt though, the fact alone that Cabardouche at least makes an attempt at a whisky barrel aged ’impy’ is promising enough, but there is some work afoot here, that much is clear.

Thank you Alengrin! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2017). HUGE BLOODY GUSHER. All over the place man, head just kept rising out of the bottle. Dark brown, typical head for a gusher, initially huge & quickly collapsing, tanned. Smell is overly metallic, strangely also vinous, mocha, chocolate, cacao, more vinous than peated, metallic. Taste is overly peated, too metallic, charcoal, paint thinner, chemical peat, charcoal, overly BE, fizzy, vinous,... Body is thin, fizzy, vinous,... Quite a mess & doesn’t feel right. A disappointment.

Reasonably stable, if small cream head after gushing over fully opaque dark-brown beer; Wood. Fire accelerant. Not refined enough for whisky, let alone Laphroaig. Coffee, chipotle peppers without the heat, smoked. Medium to well bodied, overcarbonated. Laphroaig? Not much peat.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Bieren Cabardouche Stout Mokke Laphroaig Barrel Aged (by Bieren Cabardouche):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

25/II/17 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beerlovers Bar, Antwerpen) - BB: n/a (2017-246) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Slow gusher alert!
Clear dark brown beer, big aery beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, very yeasty, some banana, pretty metallic, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, very malty, some caramel, dark chocolate, some banana, bit sweet. Aftertaste: bit metallic, grains, malty, sweet, caramel, bit unpleasant. Where's the Laphroaig I wonder? Needs more peat! :p

Gusher bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a fizzy tan head. Nose is roast old dusty barrel notes and a belg yeast note. Taste is more of the roast malts nutty notes belg yeast.

Bottled ,75 cl . Gusher allert, extremely foamy pours as well. Pours dark brown to black. Smell is mild ,some roastyness. Taste is sharp, very rozsty, cocoa, overcarbonated. Very very mild peat, even if. Very agreeable taste. Sadly this bottle has extreme overcarbonation, hence the gushing.

Bottle @ Billie’s Bier Kafetaria. Black colour, brown foam. Nose of coffee, roasted malts, sweet malty caramel notes. Good stout.

[330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar][During launching event][Bottled Nov. 2016] Quite strong for a Gose at 8 % ABV. Hazy orange, collapsing white head. Nose is milky lactic egg-whites almost vegetable lactic, decent amount of salt. Taste is milky sour, yoghurt, egg-white salty almost vegetable sour-like, lactic, raw, quite salty, big lactic zest, close to overly salty but it luckily it doesn’t go there. Salty, lactic milk body. Bit raw in the sour department, veering towards almost too salty but quite there yet. I added the yeast, didn’t change much of the taste despite recommendations, opinions of others. Happy to see a new generation Belgian brewer veering into for us highly unusual style territory. I applaud more style variation in the Belgian beer scene.

Alert ! Pour WITH yeast. The beer is way much better with than without. Without yeast, the beer Pours very clear blonde, with a rather sweet Smell over a mild sourness. The Taste is too sweet, candy- necklaces pop in mind. Very mild sourness, no real maltyness. With the yeast however, the beer is cloudy. The scent is mildly sour. Taste is much and much more intense, salty, sour. Bit dry. The necklaces Candy -taste isn’t really there anymore. A very Nice gose, unlike the no-yeast glass that missed the features a real gose needed. This score is ment for the glass with yeast.