7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A golden and slightly hazy beer, a head is small and white. Aroma has generic fruitness and sweetess of fruits, some grain and hint of earthyness. Taste has fruitness of perries, some earthyness and sourness, also light spicyness. Medium bodied. Balanced and nice saison. I like this.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2023
at 10:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. As XXI. Three years old. Pours a dark brown to black colour with a very small beige head. Aroma of coffee, soy sauce, dark chocolate, bourbon and cola. Flavour of coffee, dark chocolate, bourbon, leather, oak, roasted malt and ash in the end. Has a slick mouth feel, full-bodied and a soft bitterness. Roasted and a straight-forward bourbon barrel aged IS. Solid!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2023
at 17:20
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home. Three year old. Pours a dark brown to black colur with a big and compact beige head. Aroma of coffee, soy sauce, nuts, rye breas, dark chocolate, ash and roasted malt. Hint of smoke as well. Flavour of ash, roasted coffee beans, rye bread and very dark chocolate. Has a soft mouth feel, full-bodied and a light to medium bitterness. Well balanced, well roasted and a solid IS.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2023
at 18:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Odd tartness on the back end for an American-made Belgian beer, with berry notes replacing the expected clove-dusted sugariness. Not bad, but not what I want from the style.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2023
at 04:34
7/10
A bit old skool , roasted, choco, coffee, alcohol, a bit thin texture, decent
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:08
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at annual end of the year Fryslân tasting. Opaque pitch black color, average sized off-white to light brown head. Smell and taste malts, roasted malts, coffee, malt bitterness, liquor. Heavy, but good.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 19:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Golden beer with a cream head. Dank grapefruit aroma with lightpine. Grapefruit and pine flavor with light earth. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2022
at 19:35
7.8/10
Nicely aged, some slight spiced, gingery notes. Lots of fig and date, soft aged notes
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2022
at 22:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish off-white head that fades relatively quickly that leaves a thin lace on the sides. Aroma of deep pitted fruits, a lot of sugars, some molasses and toffee, but mostly figs, raisins, prunes, plums and a good deal of brown sugars - strong in the nose with a lot of yeast and malt here as well, but the sugars are by far the strongest. Medium to Full-bodied; Rich malts dominate here with a lot of prunes, plums, raisins, figs, earth, nuts and some toffee here along with a big kick of the slightly grainy and relatively rustic malt notes that are derived from the malts - good across the board. Aftertaste shows some mellowed yeast and malt components, but the alcohol is still quite noticeable along with a lot of residual sugars and a nice complex pitted fruit finish, complete with the rustic and nutty elements. Overall, a pretty nice beer across the board with a slightly nutty and rustic profile throughout, but the pitted fruits and plums really come out and leave a strong sweetness on the finish with some caramelised sugars as well, but the yeast and malt are structured in such a way that the fruits create a nice interplay with the backbone. Nice to sample and worthy of three years in the bottle, which has surely made this a bit more polished and rounded and not so pungent, but this is definitely still strong, but nice, especially on a cold evening here in the city. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased exactly three years ago at Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 16-December-2019 for US$3,25 sampled on 16-December-2022, three years after purchase at my house here in Washington, a few blocks away.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2022
at 08:43
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
(Bottle) Reddish brown colour with brief, foamy, beige head. Malty, vinous nose with notes of caramel, treacle-toffee, oak wood, bourbon, vanilla, sultana raisins and dried figs. Malty, vinous taste with toffee, vanilla, bourbon, oak wood, caramel, raisins, prunes and a gentle spicy bitterness in the finish. Full body, sweet. Strong and sweet, but really tasty and harmonious, with a good bourbon touch. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2022
at 22:03