Bottle @ Willems Grobbendonk. Pours hazy amber with a creamy head and lacings. Sweet caramel, yeast, hops and mildly phenolic. Toffee and butterscotch AS it warms. Quite some flaws.

Bouteille 33cl, BB 05/2017. Brune foncée, col crémeux café au lait. Arôme met de suite l’accent sur un anisé et réglisse assez dominant et plaisant. Retrouve un accompagnement de bouquet malté grillé, grains, sur des notes terreuses ainsi qu’un houblonné fruité-agrumes. Palais est malté chocolaté, fin café avec un épicé anisé marqué et perdurant. Le malté reste cependant une belle base de cette bière qui est balancé par un houblonné gardant un côté citronné. Le mariage entre épicé et malts - surtout sur la fin avec un puissant grillé/café -est une réussite.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Imperial Kroezer (by Hopscheppers):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5

21/IX/15 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: II/2017 (2015-1207)

Little hazy dark brown to black beer, creamy beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty toasted, fruity, some banana, dried fruits, chocolate, band-aid, dusty. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very roasted, dark chocolate, some banana, fruity, sweet, dried fruits. Aftertaste: bit sweet, caramel, banana peel, yeasty touch.

22/08/2015 – sample (bottle) @ Gents Bierfestival shared with JorisPPattyn, Sebletitje, 77ships & PriorL Black colour. Nose is soap, coffee. Taste is soapy, coffee, sweet, had expected something better

Bottle at gent beer festival. Pours black, nose is light chocolate, roasted malts, taste is dry, chocolate, bitter, sweet.

(Thx! for sharing) Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ Gents Bierfestival 2015. Black, solid mocha head. Nose is soap, herbal, weeds, anise, roasted coffee,… Taste is soap, anise, candy, herbal, chicory coffee, soy sauce, malts,… Syrupy & herbal body. Not to my liking.

Hobby brew commercialized through De Graal by this young contract brewer, with initially frothy and thick but quickly thinning, regular, off-white head and warm orange amber colour with a diffuse haze of yeast suspended in it, turning fully but evenly cloudy with deposit added. Pleasantly surprising, IPA-like aroma of fresh orange, mango, lemon, grapefruit peel, overripe peach, toasted bread, acacia honey, wormwood, strawberry, hay and chamomille. Sweetish but ’clean’ fruity onset, lots of mandarin, some mango and peach, soft sourish lemony accent, fairly soft carbo, very smooth and supple body with pleasant toasted and lightly caramelly and nutty malts, some spicy yeast and a long, dry, floral and citrussy hop bitter finish with a deep earthy touch of classic noble hops to it as well, juicy and spicy, very enjoyable. What a nice surprise: a true aromatically citrussy hops profile (albeit it more ’subdued’ than in most really American examples) and a fairly clean yeast profile could easily make me think this is an Anglo-Saxon IPA if I’d have to taste this blind. If there were such a thing as a ’Belgian IPA’, I would not even be sure if this can be classified as one: it lacks their earthiness and ’esteriness’ - this is a somewhat ’subdued’ but nevertheless quite genuine IPA, as there are countless in Europe as well nowadays. Their other beer is apparently an imperial stout, which means that these guys have started off by adopting two of the most acclaimed beer styles of the international, American-driven craft beer revolution, rather than opting for again another blonde, dubbel or tripel, like so many new Belgian brewers tend to do. This is a welcome surprise, not just conceptually but technically as well; this prompts me to go on the lookout for their stout, and keep track of anything new happening with these guys in the future. Maybe they’ll come up with a black IPA or a smoked porter or some other ’Americanized’ craft beer style which has not yet penetrated the Belgian beer consumer’s awareness... Kudos!

330ml Bottle - Amber with a haze and a foamy head. Peach, mango, floral hops and a hint of ginger in the aroma. Fruity, hoppy, tangy and slightly sweet taste with notes of grapefruit, peach, apricot and mango. Very tasty.

Huge, very dense & fine cream-coloured head, stable; veiled reddish orange-amber beer. Perfumey, exotic fruit & rosewater hops - but only fleetingly. Then more typical EU hops with herbs/weeds aromas. Very hopbitter, dry straw, strong cold tea, nettle cheese. Long lasting dry malt-like aftertaste. Quite slick, hop-oily, medium bodied, rather well-carbonated. Remarkable - normally I would dislike a beer with these characteristics, but here I certainly don’t! The balance is just right, and whatever might seem in excess, happens to please in fact. OK!