Goozen (5582) reviewed Goud Vuur from DijkWaert 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
At ZBF 2011, Sint-Niklaas: Amber coloured brew with hints of caramel and a citrus-biiter finish.
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed McThals Peated from DijkWaert 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled@Gastropub Tuulensuu, Tampere (As DijkWaert McThals). Orangeish amber colour with a small off-white head, that leaves some lace. Aroma is sweet malts, some leather, peat and mild toffeeish tones with some spiciness. Flavour is peated, some smoked wet wooden tones with some herbal and mild leathery notes with some caramel and mild earthy tones.
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed McThals Oaked from DijkWaert 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Hazy orange colour with a small white head. Aroma is peated and some slight tartish wooden tones. Flavour is peated, some citrus, mild smoked wet wood and some meaty tones. Very smoked as for the finish.
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed Xmas in Thals from DijkWaert 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Deep brown colour with a mediumsized beige foamy head. Aroma is smoked, some spicy and mild meaty tones with some caramel and a bit yeasty tones too. Flavour is smoked wet wood, some dried fruits, raisins, yeast, spices and caramel along with some toffee to it.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Bos Bier from DijkWaert 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pinkish brown color. Slight gusher. Red fruit, spicy and yeasty notes in the aroma. Nutmeg, strawberry and red berries in the flavor. Coreander. Sweetish. Not unfriendly.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed McThals Peated from DijkWaert 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Golden color. Smoke, peat and ham in the aroma. Fat malty peaty flavor. Alcoholic. The peat and smoke are nice, but the balance is lacking.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Fruitig Bierreke (-2012) from DijkWaert 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Reddish amber color. Acidic aroma with a hint of cherry. Thin. Vinous flavor with acidic notes, spices, vinegar and a hint of cherry. Not really sour, but it seems oxidized.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Vurig Bierreke 11% from DijkWaert 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Blonde, cloudy. Floral peppery citric flavor. Citric peppery aroma. Slightly gusher. Somewhat sharp. lemon aftertaste.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Fruitig Bierreke (2013-) from DijkWaert 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Artisanal fruit ale, apparently a kind of Flemish red originally, but then (in 2013) changed to the current recipe which is allegedly based on ’home made lambic’, whatever that may mean - did they cultivate lambic yeast from a geuze bottle and threw it in the mash? Anyway, this self-proclaimed ’wild’ beer uses no less than six different fruits and considering previous experiences with this brewery, I carefully open it over the sink. Gushing indeed, quite strongly so, but still more or less manageable if you open it slow and careful enough. Loosely structured, ’dirty pale pinkish’ head, quickly reduced to a thin but stable rim around the edge of the glass and some small patches in the middle; cloudy maroon colour with brownish ochre-tinged edges. Aroma has both pleasant and unpleasant components, the latter most clearly embodied by a slurry pit- and sewer water-like smell (H2S - bacterial infection?), but remaining more or less tolerable as it is superseded by impressions of most clearly blackberries (ripe blackberry juice) and mildly spicy blueberries and blackcurrant, but both are difficult to distinguish from each other; redcurrant remains subtle, raspberries are noticeable in a tomato flesh-like note and sour cherries are a bit hidden underneath all these berries, but still very clearly there, in an indeed cherry lambic-like aspect, albeit less complex; other vague impressions include young red wine, wet hay, damp earth, moldy orange, field flowers, bread dough, rotting apples, stale sweat, old lemon juice, molten rubber (probably DMTS), red beetroot, rosé champagne, urine and a very, very faint whiff of red candy. Evidently very fruity onset, rich in sweetish and sourish berry juice, all mingled to such an extent that it is hard to pull out the six different fruits individually but in any case the blackcurrant is somewhat set apart due to its aromatic spicy character; sour cherries, contrary to what I was expecting, do not dominate over the others but are on an equal level of intensity. Carbonation is fizzy but finely structured, as in cava; mouthfeel is otherwise soft and a tad ’fluffy’. Sourish berry flavors and drying tannins (I assume from the seeds of all these fruits?) dry the palate whilst red fruit sweetness remains, nicely balanced against each other over a very bready malt sweet middle. These different components are continued well into the finish, where they get the accompaniment of a very earthy yeast and dito hop character, the latter providing a dim but nevertheless clearly leafy and even somewhat spicy bitterness, which lasts on the root of the tongue longer than all the fruits combined. A vague red fruit sweetness and very earthy, almost ’dirty’ impression nevertheless linger. After that ’Vurig Bierreke’ of last week (why do they keep coming up with these naively affective and folkish names?), I swore never to touch another Dijkwaert again, but then I found this in my cellar and I must admit that this is better than expected: instead of reinforcing the obsolete cliché of a sweet ’lady’ beer (with all due respect), they took this into another direction and made a rather dry, earthy, eventually even bittering and very ’honest’ fruit ale, of a more characterful type one sees emerging more and more often in Belgium lately - think Broeder Jacob Brut Rosé, Dame Jeanne Rozat, Paenhuys’ Rosse Vos and a couple of others. To me, this is the first Dijkwaert beer so far which more or less rises above the usually very amateuristic level these people seem to get stuck in. Interesting and enjoyable - never expected to say this from a Dijkwaert beer - though not free of flaws, as this disturbing H2S-like odour as well as the DMTS need cleaning up urgently. As for that claim to lambic: please be warned that this is very clearly not a true lambic, I see very little similarities with the real thing, so do not be fooled by this.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Vurig Bierreke 8% from DijkWaert 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle with ABV of 7.5% (rather than the 8% mentioned here), with best before date December 2016, so I assume my rating belongs here. Snow white, moussy head, medium thick, leaving an intricate web of ?papery? lacing around the glass; pale straw blonde colour with ?old gold? hue and a suspension of pale yeast dots throughout. Aroma is heavily impaired by H2S, manifesting itself as sewer water or even rotting egg, covering up friendlier hints of peach, banana, soggy white bread, orange peel, cooked potato, pineapple, white pepper, damp earth, wodka, rhubarb; in the end, some DMTS (burnt rubber) seems to push through as well - in all, everything but inviting. Fruity onset, a tad estery but fairly ?clean?, with hints of banana, gooseberry, pear and vague pineapple, medium carbo (a bit below average for the style), minerally accents, slick and smooth mouthfeel. Pale malt sweetishness in the middle, a bit bready and even very lightly caramelly, bit honeyish (residual white candi sugar) as well, with the banana ester floating on top. Ends with ongoing banana and malt sweetness, incompletely balanced by an earthy, floral hop bitterness; the H2S does not interfere too much anymore, though it remains noticeable, and to make things worse, a glueish solvent flavour shows up in the very end as well. Some faint warming, wodka-like alcohol assists the hops in drying the tail, but it is the banana ester and the residual sugary sweetness that remain the longest. Purely flavour-wise, i.e. within the mouth cavity, this beer behaves quite well, but obviously the H2S stench in the nose does not make for a very pleasant experience - H2S is probably the worst off-flavour one can get in a beer. I had several DijkWaert beers at a beer festival when they first appeared on the market and did not like any of them; this was years ago, and apparently these friendly people still have no clue what good beer is about. They should taste their beers much more carefully and be a lot more critical towards their own products. This, for one, is a shame purely because of the H2S, and I find it hard to accept that the brewer did not smell this himself before he had this thing bottled, though it is always possible that this ?rotting sulfur? odour appeared afterwards, since apparently no one before me mentions it here. I have another DijkWaert in my cellar right now but I am definitely not looking forward to opening it - and you can rest assured it will be the last bottle I ever buy from this amateuristic brewery.