Bottled. Clear pale golden. Grass minerals and grains up front. Sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel, notes of honey. Resiny finish.

Bottled. Cloudy golden, small creamy head. Aroma of grass and toffee. Sweet with traces of banana. A little bit thin. Some hops in the finish. As usual from de Proef: pretty solid, but not exciting.

Botttle Lightly hazy, amber body. White, frothy head. Spare lace. Mostly diminishing head. The overripe bananas dominate my beer (as Joris mentionned before). Lightly bitter, lightly sweet initial flavour. Moderately sweet, lightly bitter (long) finish. Somewhat sticky. Perhaps the sickieness is soemwhat too dominating. But quite good all in the end.

Bottle Pours a hazy red-brown body, with a light browny, creamy head, whch is mostly lasting. Fair lace. Nose of carame, apples, sirupe de liège, even like faro. The flavour is quite odd too, the initial flavour astoningly resembles faro too (except for the alochol percentage). Moderately sweet, lightly bitter initial flavour. Moderately bitter finish.

Bottle Blond-golden, clear (sparkling) body. Off-white, rocky head. Fair lace. Mostly lasting. Vinegar, hoppy, soapy aroma. Lightly bitter initial flavour and moderately bitter finish. Medium bodied. Soft carbonation. Watery texture.

Bottle Clear, amber body. Off-white frothy head. Excellent lace. Barnyard aroma. Moderately biitter initital flavour. Lightly bitter finish.

Very hazy orange coloured body with a thinnish white head. Aroma of honey, alcohol, apricots, malt and coriander seed. Medium to Light-bodied; Spicey flavour up front with yeast and alcohol also very noticeable. Aftertaste still has plenty of spice and alcohol-also showing some curacao. Overall, strong-but still shows a good quality beer. It was nice to rate this rarer bottle! I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in Washington, D.C. on 12-December-2004.

Fairly aged sample, discontinued for some time now, it seems. What the way of making was, has always been a big question. According to BES, Proef was involved Very dark brown, but with ruby shine; dark brown-yellow head, dwindling. Rich molasses nose, liquorice, some oxidation, portwine-like. Heavy, nearly burnt taste, overtaking the sweetness to roasted, syrupy concentrate. There’s a taste which MIGHT be mushrooms - or anything else, probably vegetable. Very heavy, syrupy mouthfeel, treacle or soy-sauce like. Yet it is fairly highly carbonated. Aftertaste is like ketjap, with a dash of port. Weird beer - don’t know what to think about it. Certainly not my preferred taste. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn something (mushrooms and caramel syrup) have been added to existing beer, and then boiled.

Red-amber; yellowish tinted head. Very iron-y nose, leaves, rust, galvanic. Chocolate in the taste, again iron, above sweet dark malts, a very little acidity and some unmalted grain. Good body, not heavy, iron changes the texture. Reamrkable beer, special character. But where are the hops - as it bears the coat-of-arms of a hopguild?