7.5

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

Kolor żółto złoty z wyraźnym zamgleniem. Piana biała, o zwartej budowie, drobno pęcherzykowa, wysoka i bardzo trwała. Ładnie maluje ma szkle.
Aromat o umiarkowanie wysokiej intensywnosci, oczywiście ziołowy, przyprawowy, z wiodącą nutą anyżową i cytrynową (werbena cytrynowa).
W smaku wszystkie atrybuty aromatu są wzmocnione, są wyraźniejsze a sam smak generalnie jest lekko wytrawny. Goryczka o charakterze przyprawowo ziołowym, umiarkowanie wysoka, krótka.
Wysycenie średnie w górę. Tekstura niemal gładka. Ciało średnie. Posmak krótki wytrawny, ale długi ziołowy.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Lekkerbier, Sint Nicolaasga. Aroma is roasty with chocolate, touch of coffee, dark malt, some caramel and liquorice. Moderate sweet with some roasty bitterness. Medium body. Drinks below the 10%, lacks body for a Stout this high in abv.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle 0,33ltr: Dark brown colored brew with an dry bitter taste, great hints of roasted malts and milk chocolate.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Thick, slowly collapsing yellowish head, irregular, over very carbonated golden beer. Obviously very herbal. Verbena, lavas, estragon traceable, but also gurkins. Again very original herbal flavour, but the finish is dry and as oxydized grains/malts (maybe due to some of the herbs?). Chamomille and yeastfeatures. Very cabonated, the head making it creamy yet. Medium bodied. After some time, basil seems to appear in the aftertaste. As said, very original taste... even if I'm not entirely sure it is really MY taste. Txs to Stef!

7.4

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

Bottle. Color: Clear pale golden, fast disappearing thin white head. Aroma: Tart, grape, vinuous, some horse manure funk. Taste: Medium tart, bit acidic. Unripe white grape, citrus, green apple, hints of stone fruit. Oak wood, tannins, horse manure funk. Just below medium body, below average carbonation. Vinuous, white wine-like. Nice.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Bier Palais Brugge. Hazy amber colour lasting rocky white head. Hoppy blond beer. Some strength apparent. Some Belgian esters. Decent. I liked it. Some bursting hop on the tongue. I thought decent.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from supermarket MAENHOUT in Oostende. F: big, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: banana, spicy, apples, coriander, pear, floral. T: full malty base, banana, coriander, apples, spicy, orange peels, bit bready, medium carbonation, nice balanced long lasting bitterness, good one, enjoyed.

7

Bottle from Drinks Vanuxeem, Ploegsteert, Belgium. Pours a deep mahogany colour with a thinnish creamy beige head. Aromas of dry dark fruits, plums, chocolate and some liquorice. Taste has more dark fruits, plums and liquorice with some added notes of aniseed and warming alcohol. Also some brown sugar on a sweet finish. Medium body with fairly low carbonation. Quite boozy but pretty good if a bit on the sweetish side.

6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Smell- weak caramel, malt, weak Belgian tones, Foam- thin, caramel, malt, roast, sweetness, Belgian tones. Head is quite large light white-brown in color. Sticks. Appearance- generic bottle cap, simple label. Clear ruby color, weak carbonation. From - pint Taste - weak caramel, malt, some sweetness, Belgian tones. Quite sweet, malty and boozy aftertaste.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Scotch (‘wee heavy’) flavoured with Bourbon (the vanilla variety, not the liquor), aged in Laphroaig barrels and brewed with whisky malt (malt normally used for whisky – and nowadays by brewers sometimes in Scotch style beers to exaggerate ‘Scottishness’); 75 cl bottle from De Moor, apparently a 2018 vintage so tasted at five years of age. Bottle numbered 493 so clearly a limited edition. Thin and open, pale greyish-beige, shred-lacing head, dissolving over a hazy dark chestnut brown beer with burgundy hue. Aroma of caramel liqueur, still clear vanilla (very remarkable after five years – but of course strongly supported by the vanilla-like properties of oak wood in this case), chestnut, single malt whisky very obvious, ripe pear and elderberry jam, raisin, pear syrup, tawny port (including a whiff of beautiful portorisation from ageing), bee wax, old brown honey, pecan nuts. Sweet onset with vague sourish edge, softly carbonated with impressions of fig, raisin, blackberry and ripe pear but generally clean and slick; smooth, bit resinous mouthfeel, noticeably thinned by alcohol, with a caramelly and chestnutty malt core, the slickness accentuated by the wheat portion. Lingering candied dark fruit sweetishness alongside gently drying woody tannins and lovely portorisation in the finish, some light herbal hops but remaining primarily (very) malty, until very clear single malt whisky appears, dominating the finish yet maintaining tight connections with the caramelly malts and vanilla-scenting oakiness. Some actual vanilla seemingly also has survived the five years of ageing, to my surprise (normally this ingredient behaves a lot more volatile). Complex and elegant construction, the booziness must have softened a bit in the past five years but is still very noticeably there, but not to the point where it becomes obnoxious. By far the finest Feniks beer I ever enjoyed – and I think the ageing treated it exceptionally well.