31st October 2014
Very hazy gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and semi dry. Plenty of fine carbonation. Dry malts, little dry cream. Spice. Typical Tripel sweetness and spice but also a floral tone that turns quite soapy. It’s also a persistent slow gusher. Infected? Certainly hard to drink.

Bottle. Dark, lively white head. Aroma is a mix of malt and sourness. Taste of roasted malt, licorice and some crispy coffee. Nice soft aftertaste. Mostly stout, hard to taste the tripel. Fails as a black & tan, but succeeds as a decent stout.

Black brown colour, no real head. Malty aroma, caramel, chocolate and soy sauce. Light sweet flavour, soy sauce, caramel, honey, light madeira. Finish madeira, malts and honey.
(From 66cL bottle shared @ Camping Ratebeers. Vintage 2011. Bottle from trade with Edo, if I’m not mistaken)

Pours a reddish brown color. Flavour is medium sweet .fruit with strong alcohol kick and malty carme.

33 cl bottle from De Bierkoning @ home. Color is as good as black. Beige/grey head, not too much, but reasonable retention. Aroma’s: sweetish, light roasted, light drop/licorice, slightly herbal. Flavor is moderate sweet, somewhat roasted, light bitter. Medium bodied. Finishes roasted, droppig, light bitter. Nice experiment, but not sure that this blend it adds a lot.

Bottle 330ml. [ As Berghoeve Kriebels! ].[ Courtesy of my European Local swap 4.0 - bierkoning ]. Huge gusher !! Unclear medium orange color with a huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, sugar. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, sweet malt, sugary, grain notes, light yeasty. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140705]

Bottle shared by Miro at Behind The Hills 2014 Autumn Edition. Brown color with small beige head. Malty aroma with caramel, yeast. Caramel malt, yeast, herbs in taste.

Bottle shared by Miro at Behind The Hills 2014 Autumn Edition. Dark brown color with medium light-beige head. Caramel malt, butterscotch in aroma. Caramel, coffee, chocolate, herbal hops, fruity notes. good.

33cl Bottle from Benzai, thanks René! Almost black colour, creamy beige head. Aroma is quite medicinal, some elastoplast, peat, iodine, grapefruit hops, roasted malts, liquorice. Flavour is peaty, medicinal, liquorice, coffee, roasted malts, some grapefruit hops, ink, roasted bitter finish. Medium-bodied. Nice.

Low alcohol IPA, this was actually my first ’session IPA’, with a very thick, yellowish white, very moussy head captured after gushing, leaving lots of lacing on the edges of the glass; colour is a pinkish orange blonde, completely clouded from the start. Aroma mostly reveals fresh, green hops and dry-hopping, impressions of grapefruit, orange peel, tonic water, hemp, black pepper, dried apricot, some banana, some caramel, rosewater, vanilla, freshly grated ginger, white bread. Taste starts with a vivid, sparkling fruitiness, a basket of oranges, peaches, gooseberries and red apples as it were, with lots of citrussy ’fraîcheur’, inevitably thinnish mouthfeel, light caramelly maltiness, very yeasty; from the middle onwards, a dry, resinous, ’green’ hop bitterness kicks in, very citrussy (Amarillo) and aromatic (Sladek, i.e. Saaz-like), building a surprisingly thirst-quenching, long, complex, dry bitter finish. If the American craft breweries invented this style: kudos. What a great idea to capture the essence of an assertive IPA in a low alcoholic beer... I do suspect, however, that this particular example was not intended to be completely cloudy and gushing, so something must have gone wrong, but I really enjoyed this nevertheless.