5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
75 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from Delhaize. Hazy orange first, murky darker peach brown towards the end of the bottle, HUGE head that fills almost the whole glass, collapsing, fluffy white bubbles. Smells of esters, fusels, grain alcohol, chemical applesauce note, wash powder, dough. Lots of fusels, esters, bitter grains, rotting peach, chemical applesauce, aspirin, medicinal bitter, dough, bitter green leaves, burning boozy, grain alcohol. Very high carbonation. This is just awful like a high fermentation equivalent of malt liquor without any fun. This wasn’t cheap & made me feel like an alcoholic. This tastes like one of those Belgians where they just went for maximum ABV at the expense of everything, this represents the worst of Belgian brewing. Technically solid but this is just rubbish in a pretty bottle & the bucket suggest to put the bottle in an ice bucket, who does that? The booklet says that this kind of beer is high in ABV but easy to drink, seriously? This tastes like diluted cheap jenever & not beer, this isn’t easy to drink. I never particularly cared for Ben Vinken but before this, it was never personal. Awful. I stand 100 % by this review & I feel the need to underline that because he seems like one of those guys that sends you hate mail regarding your rating for his beer. Damn, I was hoping that the Belgian beer landscape to start moving past this kind of nonsense.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2014
at 13:31