6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
24 February 2019. Wieze Bierfestival - cheers to Meeki, Ama Deke & the lovely Anke! Clear orange with a lasting, thin, foamy, off-white head; some lacing. Strong aroma of canned peach, stewed apple (bordering on calvados but not quite there), apple cake, ripe apricot, dried banana, vanilla, dark honey, white rum, dough, faint plastic. Taste is medium to heavy sugary sweet, lots of peach, apricot, white sugar, vanilla; balanced by a light spicy bitterness with notes of bitter apple peel, grain, pepper, supported by a 'white' bready & honeyish malty base; sourish accent of lemon in the back with some warming tequila-like alcohol coming through already. Dryish, malty finish, lots of ripe fruit again, some 'crude' grain, sugar, and warming, bit wry, alcohol, somewhere between tequila & white rum. Medium body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation. This made me think of the alcoholic, sugary fruitiness of White Pony, or, more nobler, Dolle Brouwers (Dulle Teve, Stille Nacht). It started off promising but the plastic & alcoholic notes make it too crude, whilst I hoped for a thicker body considering the ABV. Guessing it's a Barley Wine technically but who am I to tell.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2019
at 11:03