Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Color: Dark clear copper to ruby. Very light brown head. Aroma: Red and dark fruit, caramel. Sourness. Taste: Caramel and hints of roasted malt. Red fruit and hints of dark fruit, tart dried plums. Some oak wood. Moderate sweetness combined with moderate to over moderate sourness. Medium body, below average carbonation. Ok.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

14/VI/24 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 16/VI/22 (2024-389)

Clear red brown beer, creamy smooth yellowish to off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly. Aroma: lots of cocoa powder, dry, earthy, wood notes, sourish impression, lactic acid, a hint of vanilla, caramel, sweet impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sour start, lots of chocolate notes indeed, milk chocolate, fake ersatz chocolate, fruity, red berries, some vinegar, a bit sweet, pretty oxidized. Aftertaste: some cardboard, oxidized (my bad, I know), sugary, very sour, a little bitter, fruity touch in the finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Very dark red with a pink head. Aroma of Dutch almond fingers, somewhat medicinal cherries, vanilla-ish oak. Soft, creamy texture. A modest wine vinegar and cherry sourness is enough to keep what threatened to be very sweet mostly under control. It builds a bit and there's some pepper as well as vanilla to the oak. It's not Alexander but it's good. Like normal Duchesse, a tad sweet for me.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Eltham Wines. Golden orange pour with a white head. Nose is orange marmalade, barley sugar, sweet spices. Taste is orange toffee, barley sugar, more sweet spice. Heavy alcohol burn. Sweet warming action with a splash of spicy bitterness coming through in the back end. Quite heavy going.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at The Monk Brugge. .Hazy gold colour lasting thick rocky head. Spicy Belgian blond beer. Some esters on aroma. Mostly a spicy blond beer. It's fine Like a few other hundred Belgian blondes. Ok spicy hops some malts. Some fullness in the mouth. Ok.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ Beer Run, Manhattan (May 2024). Dark brown with red highlights, small frothy tan head, woodsy acidic aroma, high carbonation, initially sweet later tart caramel taste, woodsy flavor, thin body, long woodsy tart finish. Interesting mix of tastes and flavors.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Etre. Deep reddish brown with beige head. Tart cherries, dark cocoa, slight balsamico. Chocolate marries well with the original beer.

Good mix On the originals, probably improved it giving It the Dark fruit feel. Sterk ams