Kermis (23416) reviewed La Gothik from Le Bierodrome 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
BXL ‘19. Hazy brown with a tan head. Aroma of veggies, chocolate, malt and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and above moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Maakun (16597) reviewed La Gothik from Le Bierodrome 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Sampled at BXL festival. Hazy dark brown with beige head. Roasted malts, earthy, dead leaves, sweet cocoa beans, dusty cake. Over medium sweet and under medium bitter. Solid medium bodied.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Uncle Hô from Le Bierodrome 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
One of the many short-lived beers Le Bierodrome in Tournai has already churned out in its relatively short existence, a spiced beer named after Ho Chi Minh, who is depicted on the front label (there is no back label worth mentioning, by the way, just a small sticker). Thick and frothy, egg-white, regularly shaped, very stable head over a hazy ‘old gold’-coloured beer with orangey-peachy hue that becomes darker with sediment; lively sparkling. The aroma is what distinguishes this beer from everything else I’ve tasted so far: a pungent, bizarre and hardly inviting blend of extremely medicinal and even smoky phenols with ‘green’ herbal and botanical aromas, resulting in impressions of hospital and extremely strong band aid, eucalyptus-based cough syrup, burning plastic, cod-liver oil, unsmoked cigarette tobacco and – very pronounced – gin botanicals (juniper berry, orange peel, star anise) – all but obliterating the beer’s natural apple peel, banana, honey and white bread features. Sweet onset, banana, pineapple and pear fruitiness with a refreshing touch of orange, medium carbonation, supple mouthfeel; soft bready and cereally malt sweetishness with a honeyish and minerally edge quickly drowns in the extreme spiciness that is all around this beer, with the band aid and hospital, smoky burnt plastic and juniper-gin scents all returning retronasally in a very pushy, obnoxious and overpowering way. A floral hop bitterness manages to survive this onslaught and lasts medium long in the end. Ridiculously overspiced from actual spices (I don’t like juniper berry and other gin flavourings in beer to begin with) but, even more so, from what is probably the most extreme amount of phenolic off-flavours I have ever encountered in any beer - my girlfriend could not even take more than one sip of this super-spicy brew…
tderoeck (22711) reviewed La Gothik from Le Bierodrome 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Le Bierodrome La Gothik (by Le Bierodrome scrl):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
Gothik (Bierodrôme) 13/I/19 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared with the boys @ Akke's place, BB: XII/2019 - (2019-83)
Thanks to Jerre for the trade!
Clear dark brown to black beer, big creamy beige head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet, lots of dried fruits, alcohol, dried cherries, hint of chocolate, roasted, bit malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft roast, bit sweet, alcohol noticeable, some chocolate, bitter touch. Aftertaste: bit hoppy, mocha, milk chocolate, some dried fruits, ginger bread, vanilla, alcohol. More of a quad than a stout, if you ask me. Nice one, though!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed La Gothik from Le Bierodrome 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
“Bière artisanale Tournisienne” made by a to me hitherto unknown brewpub in Tournai; my specimen says lot 2017/034 so I guess it’s roughly about a year old (?). Thick and dense, foamy, lightly membrane-like lacing, yellowish pale beige head over dark bronze, hazy beer with burgundy hue, blackish in general appearance. Aroma of old walnut shells, coffee grounds (especially when warming up), dried prunes, burnt sugar, liquorice candy, caramel, elderberries, some light ‘pipe’ iron and hints of bubblegum, candied cherries, ‘cuberdons’ and soap. Sweet onset, impressions of old raisins and fresh red apple, touch banana or bubblegum, fizzy carb but still full, rounded, tad glueish mouthfeel; caramelly and brown-bready maltiness, bit nutty and vaguely chocolatey with a thin metallic edge somewhere, ongoing fruity notes, toasty bitterish tail with, in the background, a retronasal coffee powder accent and a dash of liquorice, which becomes more pronounced in the finish. Ends with a somewhat powdery and lightly earthy yeastiness, deep nuttiness with a toasty bitterish edge but softly so, lingering sweetness (yet nowhere cloying) and warming, port-like alcohol. "Stout” only in a very Belgian way, think of Hercule and the like – looking back at a time when Anglo-Saxon craft beer influences were still absent and ‘stout’ had become a rarity in Belgian beer culture. The few that were made back then, were either extremely obsolete English-inspired sweet stouts or ‘stoutish’ dubbels – this one belongs in the latter category. Not bad as such, but I wouldn’t plan a trip to Tournai just for this.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed La Gothik from Le Bierodrome 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
29/07/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Black colour, huge light tanned head. Nose is roasted malts, dark chocolate. Taste is roast, bit ashy feeling, hint of licorice, bit dark chocolate. Bitter ending.