6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Very good, just lightly yellowish white head, very stable over cold-hazed golden beer. Garden herbs/weeds, pale malts, even a bit greenmalt. Faint 'almost-smokiness', white candi sugar. Slightly scorched malts (the 'smokiness' from the nose), very dry finish. Seems utterly attenuated - all the white candi sugar fermented. Aftertaste has a point of bitterness, rest is totally neutral. Sharp carbonation, edge of overcarbonation, fizzy (again the outfermented sugars?). Medium bodied at best. Trying to outdo Duvel? At least they add enough hop if they claim it on the label.

5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Wässriger, mild alkoholisch holziger Beginn. Milde Whiskynoten, moderate Herbe, langer Nachhall. 10/8/8/8/11/8

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Flesje gedeeld met Tomhendriksen. Goudgeel tot oranje-achtig helder bier met matig schuim. Aroma is moutig en fruitig. Smaak is fruitig. Weinig nasmaak.

6.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Fles gedeelt door Inoven. Het is een helder goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige wat fruitige wat muffige gistachtige geur. De smaak is moutig, licht bitter.

7

50cl bottle. A clear dark reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of riped cherries, plums. Taste of mid sweet riped cherries, plums, caramel, wood.

6.2

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

33cl bottle from Spar Oostende. F: medium, tan, not long lasting. C: dark brown, hazy. A: sweet malty, caramel, sweet fruity, bit toffee, chocolate touch, dried fruits. T: full malty base, caramel, banana, alcohol is quite disturbing here, sweet fruity, bit red berries, vinous notes, medium carbonation, very simple but as BSA not such disaster, partially enjoyed.

5.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

The second batch of Schouwveger, a stout by Vissenberg; still the same general profile and ABV as the first batch, but apparently the brewers tinkered with the recipe somewhat, or at least enough to grant this new version the status of being a separate beer. Thick and frothy, egg-white, pillowy, stable head, lightly hazy, deep copper-hued ruddy bronze robe – not the black I expected from anything presenting itself as a stout of any kind. Aroma of melting brown sugar, cooked apple, stewed pear, ripe banana, honey, caramel sauce, cloves, apricot jam, brown bread, prunes. Sweet, candied figs, ripe pear and banana, medium carbonation but smooth mouthfeel nonetheless, sweet caramelly malt body with honeyish residual sugariness on top, floral hop touch but hardly any ‘end bitterness’, let alone of roasted grains; a strong, ‘jenever’-like alcohol effect dominates the finish. I will not even begin to judge this as an imperial stout – this is as much an imperial stout as Kasteelbier, and the second ‘fake’ one I had that evening (the other being Koolputter Zwart – clearly the ‘ordinary’ Belgian brewer still has no clue what this style is); heck, it seems as if Vissenberg is even further away from any kind of stout than the first version was, with even less roastedness. Judged as a quadrupel, which seems a much more accurate style qualification, this is still rather crude, too sweet and too boozy.

5.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle shared by Inoven. Unclear a bit murky orange color, medium sized white to off-white head. Aroma is a bit sweet hoppy, flavor is somewhat tart en malt bitters with hop bitters. Tart clearly though. Like fruitpeel. Meh. Don't like it. 6-2-5-3-9.

6.6

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

Flesje gedeeld door Inoven, geprobeerd met Benzai. Het is een oranje tot amberkleurig bier met stevig beige schuim. Het heeft een fruitig en hoppig aroma, beetje metaalachtig. De smaak is moutig en hoppig.