Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Unstoppable gushing upon opening, losing approx. 1/4 of the bottle. Medium to good, dense cream-coloured head over muddy red-brown beer. Bottle sports also some absolutely inedited UFO’s, black, hard, looking for all the world as burnt coal. Alcoholic nose, chewing gum, chocolate, bit of dry wood. Dense head doesn’t release aroma’s easily. Alcoholtaste. Jenever is recognisable. Again dry wood, dried-out chocolate, maltbiscuit or fake chocolate maltdrink. Faint spices (the jenever again?). Restrained but present alcoholwarmth. Slick-viscous, without being really dense. Long lasting flavours - if far from intense. Yes - jenever, gin, vodka, akvavit, all the cheap grainspirits don’t add flavour to the beer; waste of time and money.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours very murkey brown, small white head. Smell is mild malty, with a sweet sidenote. Taste is very quadrupel-inspired, mellow sweet malts, with a buttery,caramel earthy flavors. The barrel is very hidden, and not really jenever in the taste. Rather mild body ( would have liked more body ) Perfect carbo. Bit boozy. Rather weak in taste , especiallyu for the ABV
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
28/02/2015 @home - 33cl bottle from Koelschip Oostende. Clear see-through golden colour with huge head. Aroma : yeast, light fruity hop, taste is thin yeast, hop, light sweetness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours clear amber, small white head . Smell is fresh , some hops , some sweet malts . Taste is amber-malty sweetness ( in a great way ) some bitter , mild hoparoma ( typical for both hops used as far as I know ) . Well made beer ! A light hint too much carbonation , but still very OK .
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from tderoeck. Many thanks! Shared @ RBBWG 2015. Red amber colour, minimal head. Medium carbonation. Sweet malty with fruity notes (some banana and peach). Alcoholic finish. Jenever? I wonder if jenever is a good spirit for barrel aging.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
6th Feb 2015: 33cl bottle in the lovely ’Yesterdays World Beer’ a bar inside an antique shop in Brugge. Slight haze to my amber pour, the head a good showing of white bubbles. Nice tulip shaped glass badged for the beer helped to make it look good. Citrus notes in a semi-sweet nose, spiced with something but I couldn’t pick it up. Taste also semi-sweet with an orange hint within the fruitiness and that spiciness again giving the beer a tropical feel to it’s flavour. OK, but not what I expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to tderoeck! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG IV.2014 Vintage / Version. GUSHER. Hazy brown, little head. Sweet malt, sugar, very basic & boring nose, overripe fruit, light cheep booze but barely there. Taste is fizzy sugar, boring overripe fruit, barrel is at first barely there but becomes more apparent the more you drink, finish carries cheap jenever,.. Sugary body,… Very lousy & boring beer in my opinion & the price tag of 20 € doesn’t really improve my opinion of it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as Harlekijn Single Cask (Filliers) (by Fort Lapin):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
14/II/15 - 75cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ RBBWG IV (Beerlover_Ben's place) - BB: n/a (2015-205) Thanks to Beerlover_Ben for picking this one up for me!
Little cloudy red brown beer, small aery beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of banana, very yeasty, sweet, bit sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium to thin body. Taste: very yeasty, bit sugary, banana, alcohol, watery. Aftertaste: lots of yeast, banana, alcohol, soft bitterness. Nope. Also: at €20 per bottle, ridiculously expensive!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ RBBWG 2015 shared by tderoeck. Opaque reddish color, virtually no head. Smell and taste malts sweetish, sugary, slightly liquor, a hint of iron. Average body and carbonation. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Commissioned by the Oostendse Bierjutters and originally made at Strubbe, which this rating is about. Off-white, thin, lacing, moussy head and warm golden blonde colour, initially clear but hazy with deposit. Aroma of pale malts, clear iron, wet cloth, grassy hops, straw, coriander, grapefruit, ureum and some ’wet dog’. Fruity, mildly sweet and mineral-like onset with fairly strong carbonation, metallic ’zing’, some spicy notes probably due to coriander, some caramel in the background, medium long hoppy, bitterish finish. Not too attractive in aroma and a bit bland in the mouth, I would not recommend this too much.