Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Gekregen van mijn zoon op 13-09-2025. En thuis samen met mijn smaakpapillen onderworpen aan een smaaktest op 3-01-2026.
FullTime Barryl Barley wordt gebrouwen door micro-brouwerij Full Time Hops in Comblain-au-Pont (Luik). Het is een non-profitorganisatie (VZW) die een aantal getalenteerde mensen samenbrengt met als doel de Belgische brouwexpertise en alle andere soorten ambachtelijke producten en recepten te promoten. Daartoe gebruiken ze alle mogelijke middelen zoals onder meer het ondersteunen van verenigingen, bedrijven of organisaties met vergelijkbare activiteiten. Ze werd in 2013 opgericht en de eerste 5 jaar brouwden ze hun bieren bij andere brouwerijen. In september 2019 werd een eigen micro-brouwerij in gebruik genomen in Comblain-au-Pont.
FULLTIME BARRYL BARLEY is een helder donkerbruin bier dat slechts weinig bruinig schuim voortbrengt in de vorm van grove bellen. Dit kleeft slechts kort sterk aan je glas omdat het bijna onmiddellijk neerslaat en dan ook snel helemaal weg is. Je ziet geen CO2 belletjes wegens te donker bier.
HET AROMA:
Zoetig, rozijn, den, hout, alcohol.
DE SMAAK:
Zoetig, hout, vanille, wat verwarmende alcohol, een sherry tint.
HET MONDGEVOEL:
Volle body, licht bitterdroog, wat romige textuur, medium prikkelend koolzuurgas.
DE NASMAAK:
Zoetig, licht bitterig, hout, vanille, wat verwarmende alcohol een licht droge toets en nog altijd die sherry tint. Het zoete en de alcohol vloeien lang uit.
HET TOTAALGEVOEL:
Een complex bier.
HET VERDICT:
Toch een leuke barley wine, zoetig wat alcohol, houttinten. Allemaal leuk maar net niet waw.
Wat meer info en mijn befaamde sublieme foto’s vind je bij:
http://www.beersfrombelgium.eu/nl/FullTime_Barryl_Barley-b-4755.html
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Belgian ’massieve ale’ flavoured with wodka, honouring the "Auto-Canons-Mitrailleuses" which were partially deployed in Russia during World War I. From a 75 cl bottle with crown cap. Very violent gushing upon opening - beer streamed out of the bottle neck and the foam, massively building up inside the bottle, kept creeping out of it for a very long time - but given earlier experiences with this company, I fortunately opened it over the sink, thus reducing the damage. Very thick and frothy, towering, irregular but dense, thickly ’paper lacing’, yellowish eggshell-white head over an expectedly completely cloudy coppery bronze beer with darker bits of dead yeast at the bottom of the glass even with careful pouring. Aroma teems with esters and yields impressions of candied dates, medlar fruit, mushy banana, a lot of indeed wodka-like alcohol but also young ’jenever’, dry hay, dried orange peel, old dusty cocoa powder, damp forest floor, sugared tea, carrot, hazelnut paste, toffee, old brownies, ginger powder, pear, baker’s yeast, brown bread dough, hints of cloves, glue-like phenols, dry leather, sage, some freshly fermented farmland and brown soap. Wildly estery onset, banana, peach, overripe pear, medlar, but the sweetness - also clearly coming from unfermented sugar - nevertheless remains subdued, countered by a dull, ’deaf’ but still effective red berry sourishness; carbo is medium, tingling on the surface of the tongue in the beginning but decreasing after a while to become near to flat in the end (further underscoring the fact that most of the carbon dioxide has fled quickly after opening), while mouthfeel is soft and ’fluffy’ as expected from a near-quad. Middle phase consists of caramelly and honeyish malt sweetness with a bitterish toasted edge somewhere and an array of ’Belgian’ esters and phenols dancing on top, preparing for a party in the finish, where an ongoing, even somewhat cloying brown sugar sweetness keeps providing background aggravation. The phenols, at their worst in being not just gently clove-like but turning unpleasantly glue-like as well, return retronasally while a dash of earthy, herbal hops tries to save the day, but completely lacks the force to achieve some redeeming bitterness, though a certain earthy, ’rooty’ bitterness is surely there. Alcohol becomes ’palpable’ on the root of the tongue and warms things up a bit, but clearly remains astringent as well. I have come to hate most kinds of liquor and the idea alone that this thing associates itself with wodka, made me weary before opening the bottle; the extreme gushing made things only worse, and so did the (very!) badly hidden alcohol. This is a failure, technically and even conceptually. I have had all four of Fulltime Hops’ beers now and I can only conclude that this whole project is a failure: none of these beers add anything valuable to the Belgian beer map, and to make things considerably worse, none of them are executed correctly in the purest, simplest, most basic technical sense of the word. Avoid this beer company at all times please!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Fulltime Flo from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Older 33 cl bottle bought online. Opened carefully over the sink but the gushing was so violent that I still had to clean the kitchen afterwards: the beer literally spouted out of the bottle neck with strong force - if I hadn’t known any better, I’d swear this was brewed at Gaverhopke. Expectedly, the captured head was towering high but loose and papery in structure, off-white, collapsing to a very irregular, lacing, coarse layer of large and smaller bubbles on top of an orangey blonde beer with ochre hue - looking completely cloudy and ’milky’ from the start and becoming even darker and murkier with deposit, like the content of some muddy rain puddle. Very estery, but not truly off-putting aroma of overripe gooseberry, pineapple, apple sauce, peach, orange peel, hint of banana, raw rhubarb, damp earth, honey, buttermilk, hint of freshly fermented farmland or rotting hay, sweet white wine, faint chalk hint but no real presence of the "lots of hops" promised in the ingredients list on the label. Very estery onset, unfermented sugars suffering under clear infection-induced but still more or less tolerable sourishness, sweet banana, tons of gooseberry acetaldehyde, peach and stewed apple, gooseberry galore, strong carbonation, bready malt sweetishness in the middle with an ongoing chaos of esters above it; finishes with retronasal esters, persisting carbonation with a mildly souring effect further reinforcing the infectious sourishness (though again, this effect remains fairly tolerable) and a very earthy yeastiness; there is a late, deep, earthy and somewhat peppery hop bitterness in the end, but briefly and mildly so. Unfermented sugar sweetness and a ton of misplaced esters remain, in a very earthy environment, after swallowing. Technical failure for sure, and an unforgivable one, though admittedly the taste is still more or less okay (I expected a lot more phenols too, for example); the orange peel touch in the nose manages to maintain a certain freshness in all this muddy, dirty chaos. I doubt whether a technically perfect execution of this beer would make it a lot more interesting, though: considering the name of this beer company and the promise made on the label, this is just as hoppy as your average, fruity, sweetish, crisp Belgian blonde, of which we have a few hundred too many in this country anyway. Disappointed, again, in Fulltime Hops, and I have an ominous feeling that Belgo-Russian thing will not be much better. There’s a lot of technical work afoot, guys!
Maakun (16597) reviewed Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at THT thanks to deanso. Slight hazy amber with off white head. Caramel, dried plums, cardboard, toffee, brown sugar, slight skunky, fresh leaves. Quite sweet with herbal bitter finish. Medium bodied. Meh.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared at the return of Old Spice tasting. Pours hazy amber with a medium cream head. Aroma of dull malts, toffee, herbs, overripe dark fruits and caramel. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Return of Old Spice tasting, Dec 2015, Den Haag. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is light woody hop. The flavour is light bitter with a watery, light woody hop bitter palate. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
75cl bottle courtesy of me shared at Decmber THT. Thin white head. Hazy light amber pour. OK
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Fier Bolg "Atuatuca" from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Another of these Fulltime Hops beers, this one apparently honouring the brave "Old Belgians" who stood up against the Roman conquerors two thousand years ago. Soberly stylized label says "just power, metal and malts"... Thin, off-white head leaving a rim of finely structured mousse on the edge of the glass and a thin veil over part of the liquid’s surface, but no lacing and not retaining well, eventually almost completely vanishing. Colour is brownish orange, looking completely murky and soupy from the start - in all, the glass looks as if I just poured some artisanal pear juice in it. Yeast is everywhere, also in the flavour; aroma is dominated by very bready yeastiness. I get impressions of soggy sandwiches, white bread dough, dried orange peel, raw and unsugared apple juice, baker’s yeast, wet cardboard, caramel, dry earth, dry tea leaves, fairly strong floral hops (chamomille), apricot, some light spicy phenols - neither overly inviting nor truly off-putting. Taste is similar: estery fruitiness at first but not too sweet, hints of dried stonefruit, some red apple, hints of gooseberry and orange with an earthy hoppiness already noticeable in the onset; medium to soft carbo, very bready middle phase consisting of a ’fluffy’ layer of lightly caramelly and bready malts superseded by a strong amount of bready yeastiness, a bit powdery as a result, with phenolic spiciness around it. Ends in a drying, deep, earthy, dried autumn-leaves-like hop bitterness with pleasant floral notes. This ’noble’ hoppiness is what more or less saves this for me, after those unattractive looks and overly bready onset; it shows certain qualities which could be identified as ’Belgian IPA’, if such a style would be recognized here. I feared the worst based on how the yeast is thickly spread throughout the liquid, but the phenols are not too strong and in terms of pure flavour, this is still well drinkable. I do think there is still quite some work to be done here, however!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed L'Apogee from Fulltime Hops 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Old-fashioned ’whisky beer’, i.e. with whisky malt, from a new beer company still brewing at Bastogne. Loose, slightly lacing, off-white head, quickly dissolving but leaving a steady rim; colour a murky coppery bronze from the first pour, usually not a good sign. Funny aroma of candi sugar, banana, ’wet dog’, stewed pear, candied figs, medlar, cloves, earth and dirt but not much peat; a faint whisky-like touch can be noticed, but in a way so subtle that it could just as well be my imagination. Most disturbingly though, the smell of H2S (rotten egg and sewer water) is piercing through it all, reminding me of the original Gaverhopke beers I bought from the previous brewer there (Eric Ameye). The taste is not as bad as the flawed aroma suggests: sweet alright, unfermented sugars abounding, banana esters, raisins, caramel, sweet-sourish hint of passion fruit; fairly strong carbonation, caramelly and bready malt backbone, yeasty with retronasal phenolic effect of cloves but also that faint, suggestive hint of whisky again; finish remains mostly sweet with the candi sugar lingering, some herbal hops (though not accomplishing noteworthy bitterness) are there as well. Alcohol remains fairly well hidden but is still noticeable. Starchy yeastiness, a weak hop bitterishness, lingering caramelly malts and a hint of the initial candi sugar sweetness remain after the last sip. Whisky malts are there, but in a subtle manner; I don’t get anything truly ’peaty’ in spite of what the label claims. Suffers from infection leading to H2S, which is about the most off-putting odour one can encounter in any beer. Taste is better than aroma, but clearly this is unfinished and unrefined. Needs more work but surely has potential, like many of those new Wallonian ales.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 from Fulltime Hops 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bière Belgo-Russe 14-18 (by Fulltime Hops):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
30/XII/14 - 75cl bottle from Amon Tchiniss (Malmédy) @ holiday - BB: n/a (no marking on the side of the label to indicate a date on the preprinted months and years) (2014-1561)
Clear amber beer,s mall creamy irregular light beige head, unstable, quickly falls down to a small layer, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, caramel, malty, banana, yeast, alcohol, metallic. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: very spicy, herbal hops, some ginger, little roasted, caramel, dried fruits, aniseed, ginger bread. Aftertaste: mocha, some chocolate, caramel, bit earthy, dried fruits.