deyholla (22727) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy brown with a white head that dissipated slowly and laced nicely. Aroma has dark fruits and caramel with a bit of sweet cereal and alcohol underlying. Flavor has dark grains and fruits with some grown caramel and cereal and a pretty present alcohol note in the finish.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled@CPH beer fest 2010. Murky brown colour with small beigeish brown head. Aroma is dry dark fruits along with toffee, alcohol, some burnt sugar and quulite much toffee and spices. Flavour is being quite similar with alcohol burning slightly.
MiP (20366) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 10% at KØ10. Mild fruity aroma. Quite oxidised, but good. Cloudy dark brown colour. Very small tan head. The flavour is sweet, oxidised. Dried fruits.
obguthr (12465) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5.5
Apple nose, with traces of vanilla that approach that of plastic. Hazy brown, thin tan head, good lacing. Brown sugar and candy flavor, full bodied roasted malt base, alcohol very evident. Some raisin notes present. I find few faults in this beer, but nothing excites me about it either. Not even close to being my favorite from de Proef. Boring.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 16 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
750 ml bottle purchased in July 2008, stored in my beer cellar until December 2009. Very dark ruby red with a large light beige head that settles over 5 minutes to a surface layer of fine bubbles, with good lacing. Aroma has notes of vanilla, chocolate and dates Begins with dark cocoa and progresses through raisins to scotch, with a bitter cocoa finish. Alcohol shows through. Nice body, better than most abts. D: I expected more of a mellow flavor after 15 months of storage, this one still had quite a punch. Reasonably good complexity, not outstanding, but definitely in the upper half of Belgian abts.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours with a largish, tan head over a hazy hazelnut hued body. A few alcohol legs, but light lacing. Aroma is raisin, toffee, chocolate, and alcohol. Taste is toffee, alcohol, fig and brandy. Very hot, with a lot of fusel, creamy bubbles.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750ml corked bottle, probably closet aged for the better part of a year. Deep opaque cherry-brown, with a patchy head. Rugged cognac aroma makes me wonder if aging wasn’t the way to go. Surprisingly mellow, malty and smooth with a rich underbelly of pungent dark fruit. Id really guess some oxidation is at work, causing off aromas..this is probably superb fresh. Inescapably boozy, with a sweet sugary alcohol-rich finish. As previously stated, probably hasn’t improved with age. Still always interesting to have a 10% beer that is considered on the mellow side of the style.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle, thanks faroeviknig for sharing. aroma : strong aroma of faint agd beer, and lots of spices. mouldy. flavor is licorice, old beer, malts, cellary, mouldy.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle at Chris o New Year tasting 08/09. Thanks to Phil l Aged aroma. Yes, it’s an ok strong Belgian ale but it does have a fair amount of age to it, which is quite dominant.
smith4498 (4269) reviewed Excellence from De Lozen Boer 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pours cloudy caramel color with off white head. Aromas of dark fruits with a touch of alcohol. Flavors of raisins, figs, some alcohol and a slight medicinal taste in the finish. Medium body with lively carbonation. Just OK.