7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Huge, irregular, just not snowwhite head over clear old-golden coloured beer. Vanilla immediately upon opening, garden herbs, meadow flowers, double cream. Vanilla tripel indeed. Bit sweet, but not overdone. Still not really fully attenuated, malts in evidence, caramel, toast. Good carbonation, quite slick. Much drier finish and aftertaste. Deceptively drinkable, strong, with just the slightly overdone vanilla sweetness to slow down. Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
from
ALBO Drinks
on 21 Feb 2021
at 10:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small, but relatively stable cream head over opaque redbrown beer. Whisky, chocolate, melanoidins, old oak but also vanilla, rather pointing towards young oak. Sweetish, vanilla, oak, but still liquorice sweet underneath, which makes it a tad thin. Banana, milk chocolate. As said, bit thing, but some gristslickness; not very carbonated. Way better than the basic Dobbelman, but that is exactly what's the awkward point is: if the basic beer were a bit beefed up, this might have turned out really great! OTOH, I also wonder if the ABV is that low, seems stronger. Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Can
from
ALBO Drinks
on 07 Feb 2021
at 09:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium but stable ochre head over reddish brown beer. Chocolate cookies, cent wafers, Oreo etc., caramel, molasses, rainwater. Liquorice, caramel, melanoidins; sweet, cookies, milk chocolated, banana filling. Light if present carbonation, slick, bit watery. And that last is it - by no means a bad beer, but for a "dubbel" significantly lacking in punch. Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2021
at 08:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Huge cream-tan head, dense and irregular, adherent; reddish brown beer. Roasted, brown bread, malt syrup and indeed whisky. Further cardboard, liquorice. Peated whisky, liquorice, cardboard, melanoidines. Quite dry finish. Medium to well-bodied, very slight alcoholthinning, alcoholwarmth. Pretty good. "WhiskEy Infused": Irish? Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
from
ALBO Drinks
on 31 Jan 2021
at 09:43
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2021
at 16:59
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Towering cream-russet-pinkish head, stable, over jet-black beer. Chocolate, liquorice, aniseed. And 'some' alcohol. Again liquorice, aniseed, bit pipe tobacco. Not very dry, sweetness, enhanced by the alcohol. Maltsyrup, praliné . Well bodied, velvety texture. Good carbonation, viscous, rich. "Barrel aged series". OK, but barrel aged in...? Remarkable evolution in this brewery, going over into 75cl bottles. Txs to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
from
ALBO Drinks
on 17 Jan 2021
at 09:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Good, slowly disappearing white head over fully hazy orangeish yellow beer. Lemon, lemonpeel, floormop Bretts, bit coriander-like spice, chamomille and other grains, especially identifiable spelt. More of the same, mainly. Neutral, not sour main taste. Other grains, dry spices, spelt. Bit thinnish, yeastslick. Medium carbonation. I've had this before - only it was known as Ommegeddon. Or it's at least its spitting image. Ommegang called it saison, and that is closer than sour, IMO. Txs to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
from
ALBO Drinks
on 17 Jan 2021
at 09:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
“Red ale” by this new microbrewery in Mortsel (Antwerp), thanks 77ships. Thick, very mousy, pale yellowish egg-white, uneven-bubbled, irregularly lacing head, misty amber robe with brownish tinge. Aroma of soaking wet peanuts, damp straw, rusk, tea, soggy bread, mandarin peel, banana, clove, cherry tomato, hint of iron. Fruity-estery onset, sweetish with a sourish touch, fig, dried apple peel, softish carb, slick peanutty and bready, bit caramelly malt sweetishness with some phenolic spiciness (clove, dried orange peel) on top and an earthy hop bitterish accent in the finish, alongside lingering bready yeastiness. Decent enough amber ale, neither a true Anglo-Saxon Irish red or red IPA or a true ‘spéciale belge’ – not sure whichever was the intention, but it is a solid and tasty Belgian ale regardless. Mortselarij seems to be among the better of all these new brewing initiatives constantly popping up in Belgium recently.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2020
at 15:51
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Thnx to Eugene. Pours very unclear, hazy yellowblonde. Small white head. Scent has intensely skunked. herbal. Eugene tells me his other bottle was fine. bought at Albo, something seems to have gone wrong here. Taste is rather crispy, malty, skunk is milder than the scent (which is just ruined) . OK in it's taste, slightly sweet perhaps.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2020
at 18:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Beautiful red chestnut beer, veiled, under a small cream-coloured head. Caramel, faintly pharmaceutical, bit of rainwater, dark green leaves. Bitter-ish, dark leaves, dry. Horse chestnut or acorn. Caramel in the background, hardly sweet. Faintly (bitter) chocolate. Bit slick, medium bodied, dry. Medium carbonation, hardly visible. Not half bad!
2nd tasting (Bd 24-02-2022)
Small but stable yellow-cream head over hazy redbrown to amber beer. Short whiff of acidity, followed by nutty, leafy, but also hoppy aromas. Hint of brown candi sugar. Dry, dry-leafy bitterness. Short show of some rare restsugars, the followed by even drier bitterness, long lasting, and acquiring bitter nuts' flavours. Bit creamy feel, medium body, good carbonation. Very slight dry-out effect.
2nd tasting (Bd 24-02-2022)
Small but stable yellow-cream head over hazy redbrown to amber beer. Short whiff of acidity, followed by nutty, leafy, but also hoppy aromas. Hint of brown candi sugar. Dry, dry-leafy bitterness. Short show of some rare restsugars, the followed by even drier bitterness, long lasting, and acquiring bitter nuts' flavours. Bit creamy feel, medium body, good carbonation. Very slight dry-out effect.
Tried
from Bottle
from
ALBO Drinks
on 15 Nov 2020
at 08:44