Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Dulle Teve from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
The aroma is of oranges, citrus, yeast, and cloves. The color is an unclear orange with a fine but collapsing head. The flavor is sweet of oranges, cloves, and the alcohol that discretely plays over the tongue. A fantastic flavor.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Boskeun from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2009-11-26, at least 2 years old, 10% ABV, 7-5-8-4-16=40
Beautiful amber color; huge head. The aroma shows initially some nice fruits, then some yeast spices. Good mouthfeel, good malt flavor, with a light spicy and fruity touch. Low bitterness, but quite evident, and pleasant, alcohol warmth.
2003-12-24, 7% ABV, 7-3-7-3-14=34
Hazy golden color; frothy head. Malty and a lightly fruity aroma. Malty, grassy; dry in the front, but with a smooth sensation later; coriander. Ordinary flavors, but well brewed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
This is a thick beer you can see little bits and piece just floating around. Nice brown color with a beautiful thick head. A slight hint of flowers in its aroma. Not bad at all.
bb (18428) reviewed Arabier from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. VERY carbonated. HUGE pillowy white head on top of a hazy straw colored beer. Has a yeasty aroma that contains spice and a little fruit. The aroma is great and very powerful. While I'm waiting for the head to go down so I can taste the beer, the head tastes very hoppy (grapfruit and spice). The beer has a malty sweetness that stands up to the belgian tang and a fruity hop flavor. It finishes dry and has a lot of carbonation that leads to a bit too much of a fizzy mouthfeel.
Silphium (4308) reviewed Stille Nacht from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A fiery orange Belgian, with nary a head. Abundant yeast floaties cry out for life preservers. Plum, grape, and strong candi sugar aroma. Flavor is very sweet, almost cloying, with candi sugar, wood, musty earth, grapes and alcohol swimming in the murky body. Sticky mouthfeel in the sense of watered-down corn syrup. Minimal carbonation enhances the syrupy, fruit juicy palate. Dense and tasty, this would serve as a nice dessert sipper.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Oerbier ( 2000 - ... ) from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Brown colour when held away from the light, but when held up to a strong source, ruby amber sums up the appearance. Pours a dense light tan/off-white head comprised of large bubbles which eventually dissipate to a small head. Aroma of raisins, figs, malt, alcohol, cherries and a bit of caster sugar. Overall, pretty pleasing aroma and appearance! Medium-bodied; Super carbonated; Sweet fruity flavour with a strong amount of the yeast coming through and showing an alcoholic character as it mellows out. Drying character in the palate with some of the sweetness lingering and the carbonation still feeling a bit bubbly. A slight sourness is noticed near the ending sages of the beer, almost reminiscent of a green apple puckerness...but it goes away fairly quickly. Overall, a pretty nice beer, and I needed to drink this one before the Reserva, to have something to baseline from :-). I bought this 33 cL bottle from Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, New York and sampled it on 10-December-2003.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Boskeun from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle best before Ma04 (march or may?), 7% or 10% depending on label or bottlecap, Wood and fruit (Apples, strawberries, peaches) smell. Dark hazy amber, big frothy head, medium carbonation. Some typical belgian spicy yeast, a bit fruit, wooden aftertaste. Adding some of the sediment gives it a rounder fuller taste. Otherwise relatively lightbodied and with a creamy, somewhat fizzy mouthfeel.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Boskeun from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Enormous cream-white head; beer pale orange. Fresh honey, nectar smell, flowery and cheesy aromas. Dry- nearly vermouth flavours, with a peppery surrounding. Lot of malt sweetness, but the dryness and vermouth flavours nearly suppress it. Cobwebs in the mouthfeel, soapy. Long-dry finsih, still flowery. A superb tripel, but less typical DDB than most of their beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
2005 Vintage Deep dark brown, hazy with huge yellow-brownish head. 4/5 Grapes, Pineau des Charentes, vinous, old wood, woodstainer, preserved dark fruit & oranges. 9/10 Dry woodstainer, vinous, grapes & raisins, special kind of brandy with complex flavours: more dark fruit, slight fruity acidity. 9/10 Full bodied, burning & alcoholic, syrupy in an "ethanolly" way. 5/5 A superb brew, even better than the 2002. 18/20 2002 Vintage Very dark brown-amber with a red shine, slight haze; thick creamy head. Nose of fresh, ripe brambles, or the same on sherry; thick bramble- or raspberryjam, homemade and covered with white brandy. Intensely fruity. Sour-sweetish taste in the best traditional West-Flemish style. Phenolic, very estery. Fruity, but more like plums or raisins - with a dash of lactic acid. Tart, non-viscous fruit yoghurt? Immensely thick & warming sensation. Very highly saturated (for a barreled beer), alcohol obvious. Just superb - a return to the past, both for DDB as for West-Flemish ales. Kris H. tells me this has been end-fermented with Brettanomyces. I can well believe him, relying on the taste. New points for 2006 Vintage THE BRETTS ARE BACK!! The nose tells it: last year Brettanomyces was there - but one knew once one was told. Now there’s no mistaking any longer. It smells like a super Russian River beer. The taste is just WOOOWW!! The Bretts are back in force, with a musty, mushroom, old wine or port with a gueuze tang; dusty, but juice-bursting deep dark grapes. This vintage is the best so far! 2006 vintage, special bottling Châteauneuf-du-Pape barrels Hazy-brown with orange highlights. Overwhelming nose with wood, vanilla, brandy, dried fruits (as figs, mango, apricots), vinous and cake. Woody, wine, red berries, pineapple with a sweet-sour perfect balance. Viscuous, near chewy, fiery alcoholic and - great. Wow. An exotic version of Reserva 9/4/9/5/18
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Oerbier ( 2000 - ... ) from De Dolle Brouwers 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Draught) Yellowish head, fast gone; hazy chestnut colour. Very fruity nose, plums, grapes, dark & light malts, sweet and vinous both. Harsh bitter beginning, enormous hops of liquorice. Sweet underbuild, fruity, grape-like. Fruitiness culminates to the finish. Some alcoholburn; very full bodied. Better than just OK, but it still suffers from the yeast change, IMO. The harsh opening bitterness is new. Yet it remains a classic.