8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Préaris Blond (Saison) (by Vliegende Paard Brouwers):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
10/VII/2012 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 25/V/14 (2012-708)
Clear dark blond to light orange beer, big creamy off-white to light yellow head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, peaches, dried fruits, little sugary, sweet malts, bit dusty, quite spicy, cinnamon, dried ginger, touch of ripe banana. MF: good carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, cookie dough, some citrus, grassy bitter hops, spices. Aftertaste: fruity notes, some grains and sweet malts, grassy bitterness, dry and pretty bitter ending, but making you want to have another sip. Well done...
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
10/VII/2012 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 25/V/14 (2012-708)
Clear dark blond to light orange beer, big creamy off-white to light yellow head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, peaches, dried fruits, little sugary, sweet malts, bit dusty, quite spicy, cinnamon, dried ginger, touch of ripe banana. MF: good carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, cookie dough, some citrus, grassy bitter hops, spices. Aftertaste: fruity notes, some grains and sweet malts, grassy bitterness, dry and pretty bitter ending, but making you want to have another sip. Well done...
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2012
at 10:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33 cl bottle @ Gastropub Tuulensuu, BBE 22.11.2013
Aroma is sweet with alcohol, raisins and some chocolate. Flavour is sweet with raisins, brown sugar, some alcohol and malt. Too bitter hops in the finish.
Aroma is sweet with alcohol, raisins and some chocolate. Flavour is sweet with raisins, brown sugar, some alcohol and malt. Too bitter hops in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2012
at 07:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle pours a translucent, deep garnet amber with a frothy, creamy, slightly off white head. Bready nose, pumpernickel, grainy, chocolate, malt, a little dark candy sugar, toffee, prunes, plums. Flavor has a great chocolate note that I didn’t expect, malty, brown sugar, bready, caramel, some light astringency, raisin, dark fruit. Dry, bready finish. Very surprised. I expected a sugar bomb and it wasn’t. Pleasant, dry and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2012
at 16:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty caramel aroma. Sweetish malty spicy caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2012
at 06:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Frothy off-white good mostly lasting head. Dark amber colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy wonderfull powerfull aroma. MOderate biter fantastic flavior. Strong fruity notes. Lonmg moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2012
at 05:10
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml.Clear medium to dark red amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, dark fruit, moderate to heavy yeasty, light wood. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry, balanced, dark fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120317]
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2012
at 01:59
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
draft @ ZBF 2012 // (a) dark brown with tanned head // (s) overripe dark fruits, touch sweet dark malts, spices // (t) sweet ripe dark fruits, liquorish, spices, dark caramel malts, hint of yeast, touch berries // medium bodied // pretty standard / nothing special / don’t quite get the fuss about this one
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2012
at 04:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle via a trade with bu11zeye with a best before of 16/08/13. Pours with a opaque deep burgundy to brown hued body with a lasting, medium tan head with good lace left on the side of the glass. Aromas are are fruity, brandy, big marmalade, vinous, alcoholic, very rich, raisins, chocolate, melanoidin, rich malt, medium to strong ester, alcohol, slightly musty. Decadent and rich. Plums, dark fruit, bready. Flavors are of alcohol, quite dry, chocolate, medium bitter, light roasted note, burnt sugar. Odd bitter balance. No real backing malt sweetness. Some flambeed raisins, roast as it warms. Light musty yeast character. Bitter marmalade. Exceptionally warming, big, medium syrupy, fuller carbonation with a somewhat dry finish. Lasting dry bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2012
at 17:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
During a trip to Brugge in Dec 2011 I had two 33 cl bottles of this brew, the first in t’Brugs Beertje and the second in De Bierboom: this review is of the second bottle, Daisy’s place being too busy to review in. The original receipt comes from ‘De Vliegende Paard Brouwers’ (Oedelem) but is now brewed by De Proefbrouwerij (Lochristi). Anyway the beer poured a very dark brown colour (almost black) with some ruby hints when held up to the light. The head was a well constructed foam covering of beige coloured bubbles. In the nose, dark chocolate, caramel and fruit cake: theses being the big three in an aroma of great magnitude and complexity. The taste was also very complex, with flavours coming at you from all angles: malty, chocolate, toffee, coffee, mixed dried fruits (raisins, oranges, etc, etc), pepper and wintery spices. It had a mini-bitter hop edge towards the end of each sip too! Even though it sounds (from the smells and taste description I’ve given) rich, heavy and full bodied it isn’t: it’s fairly thin for such a complicated beer, not watery but certainly not creamy or rich in any way. The alcohol content is well hidden and sits nicely within the whole experience of drinking this brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2012
at 13:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Mid March Tasting, Ulfborg 2012. Pours cloudy amber with a small creamy head. Dried fruit, liquorice, alcohol, caramel. Full bodied. A bit of alcohol. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2012
at 13:23