TimE (11144) reviewed Nognietnaar Huismus from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Medium hazy brown color. Very malty nose, sweet malty nose. Nutty mouth with some chocolate and wood. Nicely put together with lingering nutty finish.
cuso (17277) reviewed Datsmaaktnaar Meerkoet from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle kindly delivered by Santa Benzai, many thanks. Dark amber color with medium off-white head. Aroma of caramel, light hops. Taste, caramel, bee wax, burned sugar, alcohol. Good.
Gurthnar (14774) reviewed Datsmaaktnaar Meerkoet from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from my Secret Santa anstei. Many thanks! Moderate roast presence, slightly burnt, light alcoholic warmth, light candyish flavour. Rather sweet, but overall balanced. Good one.
caesar (10841) reviewed Nognietnaar Huismus from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from het Biermoment, BB 01 Sept 2017, 33 cl sample. Slight hazy copper to brown color, short frothy head. Aroma of chocolat, butterscotch and dark red fruit. Slight autumn spices as well, slight coffee. Interesting, has some Dutch bock qualities. Burned toffee in taste, slight coffee and roasty bitterness. Not what I might have expected at first, but shows a lot of malt character and leaves the yeast on the background. Flowery and earthy hops complement the malt. Still, feels like a fusion of a Dutch bock and an american strong/brown ale. I would love to drink this on a Dutch bokbierfestival. Well done.
thanatosti (4525) reviewed Rumoerige Roodborst from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Slijterij, Borger. Clear dark amber with an off-white head. Caramel aroma with some lightly roasted malts and a considerable amount of hop. Taste is fittingly bitter. Nice amber ale.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Datsmaaktnaar Meerkoet from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from a Mitra in Lelystad - randomly selected from what appears to be a whole range of European bird-themed beers, this one dedicated to the ordinary coot, a familiar sight for someone living in the countryside like me. Thickly ’papery’ lacing, irregular, pale greyish beige, moussy head, leaving a very steady rim of mousse and a disparate veil in the middle, over a lightly hazy chestnut brown beer with warm burgundy hue. Aroma of chestnut cream sauce, caramel, ripe pear, cappuccino, ripe blue plums, vague baked banana, something faintly raw spinach-like iron, raw cut salsify, dry earth, black radish, apple peel, old cinnamon rolls, brown cardboard, blended whisky, hints of cappuccino, brambleberries, bayleaf, cloves, marmelade, cooked red cabbage. Rounded, sweetish onset of pear, ripe blackberry, very old raisins and dried apricot, matched with a deeply situated but adequate dry elderberry-like sourishness, no traces of cloying brown sugar sweetness, very thinly beefy umami accent somewhere; medium to strongish carbo for this style, but still rounded, full body. Caramelly maltiness in a thick, fat middle, but no overly sweetness, almost instantly evolving into a soft toasted bitterishness, but both the sweetness and the bitterness keep each other at bay for the rest of the ’route’, the toasted aspect gaining more confidence in the very end - as should be expected from a wee heavy. Spicy phenolic notes - subtle enough - and a dark tea-ish, herbal, lightly earthy hop note accentuate the end bitterness, but at the same time quite a lot of slick caramelly maltiness peeps through, still challenged by a more deeply lying, grainy sourishness; yeasty factors add further phenolic complexity and deep earthy accents while alcohol remains all but hidden, ignoring a very, very vague liqueurish hint in the very, very end. Creamy, very malty, toffeeish with that slightly pungent toasted bitterish accent: I honestly had way worse attempts at the ole wee heavy style than this. Little bit generic perhaps, but I tend to concur with the esteemed Dutch raters below that this, however subtle, exhibits a certain amount of individuality. Pleasant beer for sure, highly drinkable in spite of its near-7% ABV - actually coming closer to a ’Scottish ale’, but historically obviously qualifying as a Scotch ale. Belgian aspects too - this almost feels like a more artisanal and ’natural’ rendition of e.g. Gordon Scotch Ale... I wouldn’t have minded some more punch, but in classic style terms, this qualifies just fine. I should have bought the other birds in this series as well.
CraftBeerNick (11220) reviewed Nognietnaar Huismus from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home, 27th December 16. Pours dark brown, aroma is malt, roasty. Taste is clean, some hops, roast malts, good brown ale, but I’ve had hoppier better ones.
beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Rumoerige Roodborst from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle from a trade with Idserda as part of the Euro Local swap, many thanks! Pours clear dark amber colour with a huge good lasting off-white head. Aroma of resinous bitter hops, a bit fruity, red malt. Taste of intense hoppy red malt, resinous hops, caramel, very tasty!
Borresteijn (12473) reviewed Fuut Fieuw from Bird Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
33cl Bottle from Vonk. Clear golden orange colour, off-white head. Aroma of pine, light floral sweetness, light malty. Flavour is light to medium sweet, light malty, hint of caramel, pine, pine spray, light herbal, nettles, bitter finish. Light bodied, watery, even for a session ipa.