Samoles from bottle. Wort, light lemon zest, herbal hops, doughy. Medium swret and a bit less bitter. Light bodied. Quite OK.

Drunk after finishing the cabinet for the M-Plex, at the end of a long day. Enjoyed with my home grown raspberries in tart form. Dark brown, biscuit nose, hint of raisins and fruit. Very smooth, chewy plummy jammy goodness, just a hint of brandy. Excellent smooth, mildly rich flavor.

Bottle at home. Opaque brown color, average sized beige head. Aroma and flavor are malts, cognac clearly, a bit sweetish notes with a slight hint of raisins, but way less than I expected. Quite nice this one.

Bottle at home shared with Joen and Laura. Brownish color, red hue, off-white head. Smell and taste malts, liquor, brown candy sugar notes, boozy finish. Quite alright though.

Bottle shared at home with Joen and Laura. Dark red-purple-brown color, small off-white head. Aroma is malts, rum, raisins, sweet. Flavor is similar, with loads of rum and raisins and sweetish notes. Quite nice actually, even though its fairly thin bodied.

Huge thanks to Erzengel for that one! Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass with a nice head. Starts mild, malty, sweetish. Hints of some herbs, some spices. Sugar. Finish well balanced, not too grasy-bready, shy hoppy background. Interesting!

33 cl. bottle @ home, gift from Luc.
Clear dark brown with a beige head. Dark caramel aroma with whisky notes and red fruit. Sweet taste with a sweet boozy finish. Bit flat and underwhelming, not up to the usual Gulpener standard.

Unfiltered and somehow slightly less strong special edition of Gulpener's classic Dort, a very Dutch interpretation of German Dortmunder (Export) which was particularly popular in the Low Countries from the fifties to the eighties, but was usually executed as a sweeter, darker and stronger version of pils, see e.g. Haacht's Adler for a Belgian equivalent. Thanks to Hinke for sharing! Thick and frothy, off-white, shred-lacing, stable head over a misty 'dark blonde' beer, a deep golden with amber hue (and even a somewhat pale brownish tinge in the end). Aroma of lightly toasted bread, breakfast cereals, drying grass, a touch of honey, ferrous spring water, dried tree leaves, vague tea, iron and apple. Clean, rounded onset, moderately carbonated, with very slick mouthfeel, indeed notably fuller than standard pils; cereally core with a thin yet persistent, faintly honeyish sweetness on top as well as a light iron-like but not completely unnatural metallic aspect at the sides. Mild herbal hoppiness in the finish, a tad teabag-ish, providing very little bitterness (but the style does not require this anyway, of course). Indeed a very oldskool Belgo-Dutch style Dort, so not at all a German one, which is nearly identical to Helles - in fact, if judged by purely German standards, this one is strong, dark and malty enough to be called a Märzen rather than a Dortmunder, albeit in an overly sweet way; as said, however, in a twentieth-century Limburgian context, this should meet the expectations of those who remember the old-timey Dortmunders that were brewed in this part of the world. And in Limburg, many of those original consumers seem to have been miners... Historically interesting beer, in all, glad I tasted it.