Bottle, 75cl corked and caged. Pours a hazy brown body with a nice beige head leaving some cute lacings. Prunes, alcohol, sherry, sugar and some spices in the aroma. The flavor follows the same path, with a lasting alcohol and a slowly growing bitterness. Lasting finish with a nice bitterness. Warming, full-bodied mouthfeel. I’m not sure if this beer is very suited for cellaring, but it’s a really lovely one. Rating: 8-4-8-4-17-4.1. (080730)

Bottle, 75cl corked, 2004 vintage cellared for three years. (RBNAG 07) Pours an orange-brown, almost clear body with a big, dense beige head. Has the lovely, sweetish aroma with dried fruits, notes of tea and spices that I remember from last sample. The flavor is almost as wonderful, with sweetness, malty beef-stock, spice notes and some tea-like hints. Full, sugary mouthfeel. It’s a beautiful beer, maybe a bit on the sweet side, but I like it! Rating: 8-4-8-4-16. Leaving the old rating as that was from a fresher bottle.

Bottled, vintage 2004. Brown with a light tan head. Sweet, fruity, malty aroma with some alcohol. Flavor is much the same, with the caramel-sweetness dominating. Maybe too sweet. Warming sweet and bitter aftertaste. Gorgeous beer with a little too much sweetness. (051028)

Small yellow-brown head, fast gone over deep dark brown beer with red shine. Alcohol, cheese (Leidse orKomijnekaas), dark malts, chocolate, and tons of liquorice, drop . This is pure, spiced, japwater , tisane from liquorice sweets. With some burnt malts, and who knows, some lost hops, for a bitterish counterweight. Some dry, slightly bitter rootspice, Buisman aroma, and fennel/aniseed - and then kümmel/cumin retronasal, coming on strongly warming up. Thinner than most Anker beers. Some slickness, slightly oily, and alcohol is not quite hidden. My under-standing colleague calls it a "one-off". I would rather speak about an "off one", certainly to ’t Anker standards.

Bottled. Pale orange hazy colour, mediumsized creamy head. Fruitish, spicy and wheaty aroma. Flavour of caramel, spices, fruits and wheat. Sweet fruitish aftertaste.

An amber beer with a huge slightly pink head. The aroma is spicy and hoppy - I pick up coriander, figs, and oranges. The flavor is sweet woody with a herbal note mixing in with som fruit, where I pick out oranges. The mouthfeel is very smooth, and the end woody dry.

Clear copper color, short head. Aroma is a bit sour, caramel malty, fruity (strawberry and raspberry), bit metallic. Sweet fruity taste, bit watery, slightly malty, sweet sourness. Lacks body and complexity.

Oud Arsenaal, Antwerp. Clear yellow color, medium white head. Soft and slightly bitter pilsener. Easy to drink, nice starter.

(bottle) Cloudy dark orange/amber colour with a frothy off-white medium head. Fruity (grapefruit, lemon peel) aroma with milk chocolate and a dense spicy note. Bitter flavour, medium body, fizzy carbonation. Initial malty and fruity with a bitterfruity note, that lingers into the end. A good one.