Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Tap at ZBF’12, Leuven: Dark brown coloured brew with sweet taste of caramel, chocolate and fruits.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy amber colored brew with an fine bitter taste and very subtle hints of citrus fruits. Decent Belgian I.P.A..

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

33cl bottle from a Bio Supermarket in Ostend, drank at home on 1st November 2024. Golden orange body, mostly clear, fast fading white head. Strange herbal and lemon aroma and flavour, all very subtle and unassuming, it just seemed a bit bland and boring compared to most Belgian beers I've had over the years.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Strong coffee stout by this still largely unknown client brewer in Beersel, operating at Vliegende Paard (known for their Préaris brand); 37.5 cl bottle from Stacks. Thick and moussey, dot-like lacing, pale beige head gradually dissipating over a blackish beer with thin copper red edges. Aroma of black chocolate, caramel, soggy brown bread, coffee grounds indeed but no overwhelming or particularly sophisticated coffee profile, old liquorice, roasted walnuts, brandy, subtle notes of beef broth, wet limestone, forest floor, Antwerp ‘borstbollen’, dried prunes, damp earth and coffee cream (the coffee indeed returning somewhat). Restrainedly sweet onset, prunes and old raisins with a faint beef broth-like umami touch, moderately carbonated with full mouthfeel (though not as oily as I prefer it to be in this genre); toasted brown-bready, hard-caramelly, slightly old-hazelnutty and Ersatz-chocolatey malt layers then fill the mouth, nowhere too sweet and nicely rounded, with a leafy hop bitter dosage in its trail along with a yeasty, almost ‘Belgian’ earthiness and phenolic accents. The coffee provides a deep roasty bitter layer, but it remains altogether quite soft and subtle, while gin-like alcohol warms everything in the end. Needs less earthiness, more focus and more subtlety, but also more coffee for what it intends to be; typically postmodern Belgian attempt at these prestigious Anglo-Saxon flavoured stouts of nowadays, in all, but only few Belgian breweries have proven to be really good at that (BramBrass, Galea and Zwarte Bron being a few of the more recent examples) and this one remains stuck in too much yeasty ‘Belgianness’, if you get my drift. Nonetheless, I did enjoy it for what it is, it does pack quite a bit of flavour and power and I must honestly admit that I was expecting something of a lesser quality than what I got – so not a bad start at all, everything considered, but open to improvement.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

75cl Fles, dank Harmen! Donkerbruine kleur, beige kraag. Medium zoet, zuurtje, moutig, cacao, donker fruit, wat koffie en chocolade, meer zuur, zacht bittertje. Medium body. Zuurtje hoort er vast niet in, maar anders was dit ook een vrij saai bier.

Magus, mõru, karamelline, kuiv. Ok, vana koolikas.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared. Pours a brown body with no head. Aroma's: sweet, caramel from the glass. Retronasal it's sweet, boozy, whiskey, fruity. Flavour is sweet, somewhat woody bitter. Medium bodied.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Fles 75cl. Donkerbruin tot zwart bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is bitter en licht fruitig zuur, heel apart, zou er iets mis mee zijn? De chocolade en karamel die hier eigenlijk standaard aanwezig zou moeten zijn is nauwelijks te bespeuren. Heel jammer dit bier, niet geslaagd.