Sampled from bottle at Maakun’s. Hazy golden with white ring head. Grapes, grain, grapestones, almonds, peach, horseblanket. Light sweet, light sour, light bitter, medium drunk. Medium body, soft carbonation, minerallike texture with some fat. Grapey finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Tuverbol on 22 Dec 2017 at 17:35 - Score: 7. Original review text: 3.6

Bottle shared 2012 vintage. Bit hazy golden with some small particles floating around. Sweet malts, hay, funk, unripe green berries, funky yeast and light spicy notes too. Almost medium sweet with underlying sourness and very light bitterness. Medium bodied with light alcoholic feel. Pretty nice!

Sample at SBWF 2016. Reddish with a small head. Aroma of berries, funk and some hay. Similar taste. The finish was quite sour.

Appearance: Dark brown, seems clear. Ok amount of tan head.
Aroma: Dark malt, perfume. Some dark fruit.
Taste: Dark brown, dark fruit, quite sweet. Pretty smooth.
Bought: Trade with tderoeck - thanks!, 330 ml
Info: 15/7-2016, 66/100, BB: 30/11-2015v

2007 Bottle at Heeren van Liedekercke. Pours bright clear copper with beige bubbles. Aroma of lightly sour pale non- prunus fruits. Flavor is mildly oxidized sour fruit- could be pear or apple. Quite mild - easy drinker.

Sample at En Öl- och Whiskymässa, 2016. Hay reddish color with small white, pinkish head. No lacings. Aroma is berries, fruity, light sour, light funkiness, earthiness. Taste is medium sour with dryness, red berries, slight creamy texture. Ends light sour with earthiness and dryness.

A ’Diesters bier’ in more than one sense, with lightly lacing, medium thick but very stable (especially seen its ABV), pale greyish beige, moussy head and deep, warm chestnut bronze colour with mahogany hue and very calm, quiet sparkling rising up from the bottom of the tasting glass. Aroma of rum-soaked raisins, burnt sugar, fig, ’speculoos’, strong clove-like phenols and even some shoe polish paint-like solvents, dried banana, roasted hazelnuts, medlar, some FFF and damp forest floor, honey, pear syrup, dried plums, subtle hints of candied cherry, old dry kitchen herbs, mandarin peel, gari, cocoa powder, carrot. Fruity, predominantly sweet onset, residual candi sugar sweetness along with estery banana, fig and peach as well as a deep, soft yet effective elderberry sourishness, medium carbo, bit minerally and making the mouthfeel just a bit more coarse than it ought to be, thick caramel and honeyish malt sweet body with nutty edges while spicy phenols and fruity esters play on top; finish continues this play of full sweet malts, spicy phenols and fruity (restrained banana) ester but adds some herbal, earthy, soft background hop structure as well as warming, brown rum- or even slightly kahlua-like alcohol, which manages to avoid astringency in spite of my expectations. Very stereotypical quadrupel (rather than just plainly ’Belgian strong ale’), but thick and rich as well as almost flawless; too sweet for my tooth, the only thing I am really missing here, is hops. The subtle earthy bitterness in the end is no match for the brown sugar sweetness, which even cloys a bit to the teeth in the end. Alcohol is very noticeable but does not disturb me at any point. Sweet and cliché, but well made and decent, with an unambiguous nod to the old ’Diesters bier’ tradition, which eventually led to things like Verboden Vrucht or Keizer Karel Robijnrood - and in that very particular sense, I would recommend this (and a few other Loterbol brews) way over those industrial remnants of a once prolific regional Belgian ale style, which has now all but merged with more dominant genres like ’dubbel’ and / or ’quadrupel’.

Bottle shared. Hazy brown with barely any head. Aroma of malt, nutty notes, light raisin, yeast and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.