Hazy dark blond colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have a somewhat stewed resinous hop note. Very bitter. Quite caramelly and syrupy.

Hazy peachy colour. Aroma and flavour have obvious hibiscus floral fruitiness. Pleasantly tart.

It's VERY hot, this is cold.. save me. Smell- weak malt, cocoa, faint chocolate. Foam- thin, bit to medium, roasty, malt, bitter. Head is medium-ish dark brown color. Sticks to sides. Appearance-generic black bottle cap, but a funny name. Black color, some weak carbonation visible. From- snifter Taste - roast, malt, bitterness, faint caramel. Generally roasty and malty, bitterness is medium. To be honest nothing special, would like it a bit sweeter.

bottiglia 33 cl, schiuma bianco sporco fine persistente, color arancio torbido, al naso è floreale legno e funky, in bocca agrumi limone frutta acerba, carbonazione moderata, corpo leggero, amaro percettibile, acida secca e asciutta. Non è male ma ha poco carattere ed è poco acida per una Berliner Weisse. c. Beer-shop.it 01.06.20

Bottle. Dark brown. Very berry aroma, caramel, dark malt, red currant and blueberry, jam, molasses. Taste: roasted, caramel, a little sweets, sourness, blackcurrant, jam, not bad.

Bottle. Golden, blurred, yellowish foam. Aroma: candied fruit and honey, malt. Taste: sweet, candied, a little aspirin, fruity, a little grassy, medium bitterness.

330ml bottle. Clear, pale yellow-ish, faint golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Yeasty funky, herbal and minimally citrusy fruity aroma, notes of brine, mustard seed, a touch of dill and tarragon, some old lemon peel, weak floral overtones with a touch of chamomile. Taste is dry, yeasty funky, slightly herbal, minimally floral, minimally tart, citrusy fruity, biscuity, pale and wheat malty basis with little residual sweetness, notes of brine, lemon, lemon peel, a touch of mustard seed, tarragon, chamomile. Oily-watery texture, slightly prickly carbonation. Quite complex for its light body, well balanced and refreshing - pretty nice.

Coffee porter by Flying Dutchman, made with two different kinds of coffee beans and additionally flavoured with vanilla beans and wood chips made of American oak. Thick, dense and frothy, very tightly plaster-like lacing, mocha-beige, very stable head; clear, very dark chocolate brown robe (as good as black) with deep and bright ruby red glow when held under bright light, remaining clear till the last drop so apparently filtered. Aroma of a lot of coffee (coffee powder, coffee filters and actual cold espresso), dry cookies without the sugar, green walnuts, 'fondant' chocolate, brown bread crust, dry tree leaves, some residual vanilla but not very strong, ground old dry hazelnuts, fudge, white pepper, old raisins, sawdust, young furniture wood, dry tea bags, iron shavings, plaster, nutmeg, blood. Sweetish onset but 'cleanly' and restrainedly so, vague dried fig note, sourish undercurrent, medium carbonation; supple, lean body, bit oily with somewhat metallic edges. Hard-caramelly and - even more so - peanutty malt body with brown bread crust-like side effects, but feeling generally a bit thin for 7+% ABV; soon, though, the coffee component sets in, adding richness to the finish in an aromatic, spicy, 'warming' and very convincing way, as well as a peppery-roasty bitter effect, that in itself blends with a herbal hop note and lingering, deeply toasted-bitter maltiness. Vanilla remains a faraway echo (as it so often does) but there is certainly a clear woodiness, a bit old wooden board- or tabletop-like, with a rustic, tannic effect that matches very well with the coffee; meanwhile a leafy hop bitter note builds up too, tying both bittering factors together and connecting them with the toastiness of the malts - so in all, the finish is very bitter, but in a complex, layered way, and some of the caramelly malt sweetness still pierces through to provide some balance against this bitterness. A rather slender, bit metallic and straightforward malt profile, but the coffee has been applied very generously and quite elegantly here; the wood chips do their job better than they averagely do, it's just the vanilla again that painfully lags behind. Very typical coffee porter and heavy on the coffee - so you really have to like coffee for this, but there is some complexity and 'souplesse' to it which makes it worthwile. One of the better Flying Dutchman offerings for me so far.

Seasonal DIPA from Flying Dutchman, so - as usual with this gypsy brewer - a ridiculously long name. Bottle from Gedeelde Vreugde. Thick, papery lacing, egg-white, uneven-bubbled but firm and stable head on a hazy to even slightly cloudy, deep orangey peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of yellow grapefruit, fresh wormwood leaf, spruce tips, raw endive, orange zest, gin, crackers, dry biscuit, diesel, hints of persimmon, cayenne pepper, white bread dough, green melon, bitter beech tree leaves, dandelion juice and kumquat. Spritzy onset, cleanish fruity notes of persimmon, unripe apricot and kumquat, lively carbonated; sweetish but restrainedly so, with a slight sourish undertone and early signs of hop bitterness. Smooth, oily body, bit resinous, soft biscuity and cracker-like maltiness with a peanutty edge, bittered early on by a very grapefruity, spicy, firm, long-lasting, eventually very rooty and quinine-like hop bitterness, releasing retronasal notes of grapefruit peel, pine resin and wormwood, blending in with a gin-like alcohol element in the end, warming but not overly dominant, adorned with very light yeasty touches. Lots of lingering grapefruitiness and tangy spiciness, but soft biscuitiness peeps through in the end as well. Quite astringent, uncompromising in its hop bitterness like any old school West Coast DIPA; could have been just a little bit cleaner in the yeast department, perhaps, but there are admittedly no esters or phenols strong enough to hinder the evolution of the hops and their communication with the malts. Feels quite 'herbal', but very grapefruity as well with a piney aspect to it, just what I like in a classic DIPA; not the most refined example of the style I had by far, but it does qualify as one of Flying Dutchman's more memorable and expressive beers. Too bad we are already in benign spring weather here in Belgium meanwhile so I guess I am missing out on the hibernating and darkness biting aspect - but I do not normally bother to remember (or even read) the complete names of these Flying Dutchman beers anyway, so who cares. Enjoyed it, in all, though I can imagine younger beer geeks unfamiliar with how DIPA was ten to twenty years ago, will be unprepared for so much 'raw' hop bitterness...