Bottle. Golden blonde, hazy. Pineapple and hints of yeast in both aroma and flavor. Sweetish, some soft tart notes. Drinkable beer.

Bottle. Murky brown color. Caramel, milk chocolate and red berries in the aroma. Sharp citric flavor, nutty with caramelly sweetness. Upcoming infection, still nice to drink.

Bottle. Golden color. Trpical fruit and just a hint of hops in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with oily grassy hops and canned apricot. Hopbitter aftertaste with bitter walnuts. Not unpleasant.

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Bottle @ Zandvlooie, Lozer. hazy amber colour, white creamy foam. Sweet, malty, light citrussy, fruity. Light bitter. Easy drinkable. Not bad.

Verhuisbrouwerij’s latest creation, a ’massieve ale’ aged on whisky-soaked oak chips, from a 75 cl bottle with crown cap. Very moussy and dense, cream white, membranous lacing head over a dark but translucently bronze beer with mahogany brown hue. Aroma of toffee, stewed pear, damp tree leaves, wet dog, water-diluted cocoa, banana, earth, wet wood, peach, candied fig, melting brown sugar, black tea, whisky - but the latter in a generic alcohol sense from the beer itself, much more so than from the actual whisky effect, which is all but unnoticeable. Sweet flavour with a lot of residual candi sugar, pear, blue plum, banana fruitiness, sourish brambleberry-like undercurrent, soft carbo, full and very ’fluffy’ mouthfeel. Nutty and caramelly malt sweet middle with a wheaty sourishness to it, a bit ’woody’ and vaguely chocolatey as well, leading to a powdery yeasty-bready finish with an earthy hop bitter touch to it, as well as some tannic wood, drying and even a little bit vinous, followed by warming alcohol - whisky-ish, but again in a very vague and generic way, without actual whisky taste; the candi sugary sweetness lingers through this all and thus remains the dominant factor. Seeing some of the other reviews below, I can only conclude that this is either another batch, or it has significantly improved with over half a year of aging on it, because the beer coming out of my bottle is relatively well-balanced and well-executed, albeit a bit too sweet for my tooth.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Verhuisbrouwerij IJsbeer Willem (Whisky Oaked) (by De Verhuisbrouwerij):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

15/VIII/17 - 75cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ Help-Me-Get-to-10K-In-Time-Tasting 2 (home) - BB: 9/X/19, bottled: 9/X/16 (2017-1222)

Clear purplish red brown beer, creamy beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, ripe banana, bit sugary, caramel, dried fruits, yeast. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: alcohol, bit sourish, dried fruits, caramel, soft bitterness, some chocolate. Aftertaste: malty, very yeasty, muddy, spicy, some liquorish. Not getting much whisky flavours.