6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from De Bierkoninng, Amsterdam Saturday 3rd March 2012 consumed at home 08.03.12 Pours hazy gold/orange with white head. Quite spicy from the off, with a decent bitterness that tickles the tongue, nice mouthfeel, soft and smooth. Warming from the alcohol, then then the bitterness shows again. Fine A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2012
at 10:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle from ABCBeers Thin offf-white head. deep dark pour. Very nice stout
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2012
at 14:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
75 cl bottle from Mitra Middenweg (A’dam) @ home. Clear, amber color, off white, sticky head. Once the head fades strong wood aroma’s (oak, vanilla) come up, with some sweet malt in the background. Flavor is medium bitter, still with wood notes (oak). Body is medium. Finishes with a medium bitterness. Interesting to say the least, and pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2012
at 13:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at In de Wildeman. Black, beige head. Aroma of hard roasted malts, bitter nuts, cream, alcohol, liquorice. Flavour is liquorice (like a dropbal van de kermis), hard roasted malts, cream, booze, dark fruits, bitte roasted finish. Medium bodied at best. Expected a bit more.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jan 2012
at 09:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
ambrato carico buona schiuma discreta persistenza leggermente affumicata buon maltato discreto corpo lieve nota luppolata secca
Tried
on 11 Jan 2012
at 15:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8
33 cl bottle from De Bierkoning @ home. Black color. Deep beige head that lasts long. Aroma’s: roast, chocolate, drop/licorice, malty sweet, a hint of berries. Flavor is medium sweet, drop/licorice. Body is a bit thinner than expected. Finishes nicely bitter with roast & ash.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2012
at 12:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle from De Bierkoning. Nice red-brown color, big beige longlasting head. Aroma’s: sweet malt, some smoke, a bit roast, hints of sour fruit. Flavor is medium sweet, caramel, with hints of smoke, roast and fruit. Medium body. Finishes a bit smoky with some roasty bitterness. Where’s the wood?
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2012
at 12:47
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Rerate: remains too alcoholic in the nose, but mainly in flavor. Unbelievable this kind of beer scores awards at shows. Alcohol all over the place and dries out the beer even more, balance is questionable. Score goes even down a couple of tenths. Bottled @ home, from de Bierkoning. Dark color, short creamy brown head. Aroma of chocolat, hint of blackcurrant, slight lactic like a milk stout. Bit bitter taste, slight sweet, strength mostly comes from the alcohol, which is supposed to be ’warming’. I’d call it burning rather. Creamy texture, but it lacks body. Really a pumped up version of their stout, just with some more alcohol, which really doesnt do the beer any good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2011
at 10:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark, creamy head. Aroma of roasted malts and coffee. Texture is very silky. Flavour has a pleasant bitterness with notes of coffee and cocoa.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2011
at 11:55
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
20 cl. draft @ Kerstbierfestival 2011: A: clear, extremely dark brown going to black with no head – S: coffee, sweet dark malts, smell is overall rather light – T: wonderful sweet coffee, plenty of ice coffee, molasses, brown sugar, slight liqueur cherries, touch alcoholic dark fruits in the aftertaste – B: still rather light for what it is but also slightly syrupy, medium carbonation – very nice stuff
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Dec 2011
at 09:49