7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Darker amber, orangey hue, slight haze; yellowish-amber thick head, leaving lace. Honey and, very markedly, pineapple nose. Bit of (sweet) grapefruit and citruspeel, as well, very fruity. Taste is fruity and hoppy at the same time. Hops like a sack of drying hops at the end of the season. Much drier beer than the nose would suggest, seems pretty well attenuated. Can’t make out more than a slight perfume, concerning the honey & vanilla. Palate isn’t terribly exciting - the toll payed to the high attenuation? Medium bodied. I like this. Halve Maan and multibrewer Marc Knops are doing better and better.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Nov 2004
at 11:18
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Clear golden, heady carbonation to high yellow head, dense, very fine bubbled. Very grassy hops, chaff in the nose. Initial hoppy flavour, going over in a dull malt/grainy sweet taste - dull and boring. Light bodied, some fizziness. This is a pils. I wouldn’t even hazard "premium" as it says on the label. And I wonder if this is really brewed at Hulst.
Tried
on 03 Nov 2004
at 09:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
A deep red beer with a huge light brown head. The aroma is sweet spicy with notes of prunes and chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, chocolate, and a dry end.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2004
at 15:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Orang-amber, very slight haze; heavily carbonated to orange tinted, dense head, some little lace. Very much cookie malt, and orange zeste, fruity and faint peppery. Sweet and fruity taste, alcoholic - much more than 6.5% ABV would lead one to expect - even liqueurish. Again spicey, but I cannot identify vanilla. OTOH, honey is quite plausible, albeit more outfermented than usual with honeybeers. Medium bodied, alcoholburn, dry in the finish. Honey flavour finally emerges warming up, at the end of the bottle. Only the MF gives away that this is not really a big beer. It has some characteristics of one, all the same.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Sep 2004
at 09:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Huge, yellow-brown head, leaving ragged lace; quite clear red-brown ale. Chalk, dark malts, pine forest, dark green leaves build up the nose. Woody, piney taste, some dark chocolate, mainly sweet. Little bitterness and just a tad spicey. Medium to full bodied. Bitterness, through unremarkable at first, gets tiring in the end, as the harsh metallic tang of it builds up. OK - but not great. I’m still desperately seeking Sus- pineapple.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2004
at 13:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Fluffy, huge butter-coloured head; hazy, dark orange-brown beer. Rich, warm malt aroma, fruitcake (in the nicest possible meaning), plums and quite some alcohol - including fusels. Smoked taste, superimposed on sweet malts. Finish is where it fails: metallic overtones, seamlessly confirming the mouthfeel, which is thinnish for such an heavy-coming beer. Bitter-metallic aftertaste. For one second I thought I sampled a different beer than the other raters. The mouthfeel & finish helped me out of my delusion. And I still like it, all the same.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2004
at 13:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cloudy amber color, medium white head. Nicely balanced aroma of hops, some apple, bit yeast. Taste is yeasty, sour green apple and hoppy. Very hopbitter finish.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2004
at 13:44
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
The aroma is sweet with notes of peach and yeast. The color is orange and it has no head. The flavor is watery with a weak malt note before it turns slightly bitter in the end. The body is thin.
Tried
on 08 Jan 2004
at 13:50
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Orange-gold; fine white head, very bubbly. Vanilla, milk-cream, grainy nose. Definitely a bit vanilla in the taste too. Grainy-malty, sweet. Light, watery body. Dreary, dreary, dreary pilsener.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2004
at 11:35
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Dark brown color. Malty aroma. Malty taste, some tartness. Bit bock-like. Bittersweet palate.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2002
at 11:00