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

33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mid sweet pale malt, hay. Taste of mid sweet pale malt, honey, straw, moderate spicy bitterness.

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

17/IX/21 - 33cl bottle @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging, Hotel Columbo (Gent), BB: 26/VIII/23, bottled: 26/VII/20, lot: 2020022 (2021-1100) Thanks for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy brown to reddish beer, small creamy off-white to beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of overripe banana, caramel notes, alcohol, sugary sweet impression, malty, some milk chocolate. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of alcohol, sweet touch, little spicy, grains, caramel, vanilla, bit yeasty, bitter. Aftertaste: slightly bitter, malty, soft roast, lots of alcohol, cognac notes.

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

Bottle. Hazy deep brown with off-white head. Aroma of chocolate, cocoa, fruity esters, cognac. Taste is very similar. Warming alcohol. No carbnation.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Quadrupel infused with cognac from a cognac dealer in the same village as the brewery’s registered office, and extra flavoured with guaraná, a kind of (very) caffeine-rich South-American nut often used in soft drinks nowadays. Medium thick, membrane-lacing, pale greyish beige, breaking but generally stable head on a cloudy, dark mahogany brown beer with ruddy tinge. Aroma of beef broth first and foremost, lots of FFF (freshly fermented farmland), medlar, rotting apples, stale sweat, indeed some cognac piercing through, old potatoes, pear, sour cream, cloves. ‘Dirty’-estery onset, sweet with a (dull) tart edge clearly hinting at infection, hints of pear, medlar and elderberry, lactic effect as in spoilt milk thinly yet clearly running through the whole, finely tingling carb, full and bit fluffy mouthfeel. Caramelly and brown-bready maltiness with a clear nutty side, obscured a bit by the ‘dirtiness’ from the infection but still revealing a dash of background guaraná, before strong phenolic-spicy effects (4-vinyl-guaiacol, the ‘meaty’ way even), lingering earthy and beef broth-like ‘dirtiness’ and this ongoing ‘deep’ lactic sourishness take over, highlighted by an earthy hop bitter accent and warming alcohol, cognac-like I guess, but not very prominently. Both the cognac and the guaraná remain completely understated here, buried under the dirty, earthy, souring effects of an unfortunate bacterial infection that plagues at least the sample I had. Ignoring the infection, I’m sure this has the potential to become a classy ‘bière de dégustation’ and I take that in account in my altogether mild rating – but I cannot deny the infectious effects either, of course, so this clearly needs work.

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

Very dark brown with thin head. Aroma and flavour have plenty of dark malts. Hints of coffee and chocolate. Really full bodied. Surprisingly good.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

24/XII/19 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BB: X/2021 - (2019-2203)

Clear blond to light orange beer, decent creamy irregular off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, ripe banana, bit sweet, orange peel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, fruity, some banana, bitter, spicy, herbal, eucalyptus. Aftertaste: very bitter, spices, bit grassy, hoppy, malty, grains, bit metallic.

Donker smaakvol

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Murky brown color. Slightly yeasty, caramelly aroma with hints of banana and citrus, Citrus, banana and yeast in the sweetish flavor. Rosebuds.