THT July at Kwartje. Bottle shared. Black with thin tan head. Big sweet deep roasted chocolate malts, light coffee, whisky, licorice, peat, salmiak, Irish coffee. Big sweet and bitter. Full body and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Captain Blackbird - BA Bowmore on 22 Jul 2018 at 11:49 - Score: 7

Bottle shared at THT actually July! Very dark brown with dark beige head. Lots of peat, sweet malts, ash, vanilla, more peat. Very strong Bowmore here, with soft base imperial stout. Light sugary and green leaves. Over medium sweet and medium bitter. Over medium bodied. Strong on the Bowmore.

Bottle shared at home. Slightly unclear bright golden with white head. Sweet malts, barley, orange peel, coriander, spicy yeast, white pepper, crispy grainy. Moderate sweet and quite bitter. Medium body and soft but sharp carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Festivalk on 22 Jul 2018 at 11:33 - Score: 7

Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Hazy golden with huge fluffy white head. Lots of spicy saison yeast, light apples, peach, bitter grassy hops, light bready. Basically lots of spicy yeast and quite strong grassy hops with a nice balance of sweet bready malts. Medium bodied. Nothing too complex or exciting, but quite drinkeable, though it is quite bitter.

330ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie July 18, courtesy of Simon. Pours hazed pale brown, off-white crown. Smooth sweet malt, chocolate malt, caramelised notes, some ryebread perhaps. Nice scotch ale.

In de tuin uit een flesje (n de tuin. Jetlag nog in mijn lijf. Troebel mooie goudgele kleur, smaak zout met een aangenaam zuurtje, een prima zomerbier.

Draft at Arendsnest during Carnevale Brettanomyces. Hazy amber color white head. Caramel and orange peel aroma. Taste is mainly caramel

Cold bottle at home on a nice hot day of slaving away at the office. Hazy golden with thin white head. Sweet malts, citrus peels, some juicy fruitiness, soapy coriander, doughy yeasty, grassy, winegums. Quite sweet and moderate bitter. Medium body, slick and malty, soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Zuiderzeearend on 28 Jun 2018 at 23:06 - Score: 7

Sampled @ Arendsnest. Bright orangy color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, bitter, not much more. Had higher hopes. Bleh.

Rye IPA by Amsterdam's Bird Brewery, bottle at Biertuin in the Linnaeusstraat, thanks Craftmember for sharing. Lightly lacing, off-white, bit loose head, yet still relatively stable, over a hazy, deep amberish 'old orange' blonde beer with vaguely khaki-ish tinge near the bottom. Aroma of toasted onions, old grapefruit peel, pomelo, withering kitchen herbs, wet sandwiches, pine resin, dried mango flesh, moist peanuts, rainwater, some 'old hop' dankness. Fruity onset, peachy and apricot-ish with sweetness countered by quite sharply stinging, numbing carbonation adding a lot of mineral aspects; smooth peanutty maltiness with toasty edges and indeed prominent 'rye spiciness', accentuated by a long, bit piney, grapefruity hop bitter finish, peppery and drying. Bit overcarbonated and the old hops, even if I don't mind this aspect too much, would better be replaced by fresher ones - but this is mere nitpicking, in all this is a damn fine IPA and a damn fine beer, like most of Bird's creations.