7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Colour: quite clear, colour as orange liquour (mandarine); very thick, rosy head, beautifully pearling, collapsing. Honey very apparent in the nose. Sweet nose, again remindful of orange liquour. Aroma of sweet lard. Taste is, however, bitter. Slight madeirisation in the taste. A flowery, liquoury flavour, perfumed. Not typically honey, a bit vineous. Mouthfeel gives bitter, slightly adstringent sensation, not unpleasant. End-of-the-bottle yeast gives more creamy sensation. Aftertaste is sweet-bitterish, liquourlike. A true apéritif beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2003
at 13:23
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
[Sampled item: 3 years old] Colour: dark golden-brown; brownish, thick, irregular head, slowly fading. Nose is sweet, portwine, hops and pinewood hints. A light bitter shock, than a taste of cold sweetened coffee, or "Haagse dropjes", a black, toffee-like sweet from Holland. There is a funny flavour as from mouldy cookies, too. Retronasal a quite bitter, quinine-like taste, paired with parsley. Mouthfeel is quite well-bodied. A slight warming effect. Thge madeirisation of this bottle comes out in the aftertaste, once one gets over the quinine-like retronasal flavour. Nice beer, really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2003
at 11:13
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Wonderful orange-amber color, giant head, nice perlage. Strong cork aroma. Cork again in the taste; it has a particular character that reminds me some craft Belgian ales of 10 years ago; nice honey backfeeling, without exceeding in a high sweetness.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2003
at 14:54
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Very dark brown. Estery, perfumy aroma. Sweet coffee nose. Notes of raspberries. Creamy mouthfeel and light bitterness. A really tasty potion reminiscent of kahlua...
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2002
at 00:37
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Dark amber ale. Strawberry aroma. Malt flavour and a bitter final (with no strawberry); dry, rather then sweet. Very light chocolate aftertaste.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2001
at 18:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Gold-amber ale. Nice hop aroma, sweet malt taste and balanced final.........
Tried
on 29 Nov 2001
at 16:49