6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught Very good cream-beige head over reddish brown beer. Very malt, fresh green beer still in fermentation; hint of wood and even lactic; half-dried grapes. Quite malty, dark malts, bready, bit of chocolate, and again wood, traces of caramel. Medium bodied, bit slick, the finish is a bit light. Good beer. It is however 2-3 scales too dark for a Speciale Belge.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 29 Aug 2022
at 07:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught Fluffy, yet dense just off-white head over hazy orange beer. Very fruity nose, exotic fruit, citruspeel, jute, preserved citrus as sucade (without the sweetness). Soft-spicy and citrussy flavours, serious hints of other grains (oats, I thought spelt,...) Fine bitterish- and sourishness from citrus, again non-sweet sucade comes to mind. Light, well-carbonated. Rather nice! NB the "Mountain" reference is a joke as being situated halfway between Westcoast and New England IPA.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 31 Jul 2022
at 08:45
8.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
9/VI/22 - 33cl bottle @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: 25/V/23, batch: SB01 (2022-678)
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: good roast, malty, caramel, vanilla notes, something sweet, almost like lactose? Lots of chocolate notes as well. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, some alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol, slightly sourish, more alcohol, bitter, hoppy. Aftertaste: more roast, lots of chocolate, alcohol, whisky, some vanilla, bitter roast, nice stuff!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: good roast, malty, caramel, vanilla notes, something sweet, almost like lactose? Lots of chocolate notes as well. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, some alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol, slightly sourish, more alcohol, bitter, hoppy. Aftertaste: more roast, lots of chocolate, alcohol, whisky, some vanilla, bitter roast, nice stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brouwbar
on 09 Jun 2022
at 21:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours black. Small tanned head. Small tanned head. Scent is intence, rye noticable. Taste is roasty, creamy, nice rye profile, bit chewy, 'plastic' like feature I'm not to fond of. Nothing majorly off, just a small imperfection. Easy drinker, not bad at all, just not very specific or unique, perhaps.
Tried
on 08 Jun 2022
at 10:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours black, medium sized, slowly rising (almost looks like nitro) , very creamy mocha head. Scent is raw, roasted malts, tad hoppy (very green). Fairly intense. Taste is roasted, coffee, mild hops (noticable, mostly green) Medium body, medium low carbo. Mild bitterness. Decent!
Tried
on 03 May 2022
at 08:51
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Draught Dark beige head, with some larger bubbles over fully opaque black-brown beer. Roast, charcoal, meatroast, breadcrust, candi syrup (if not really sweet). Again roasty but a lot more dry than the nose suggested. Still a bit breadcrust and even some of the sweeter crumb. Faint root spices, finish has a lot of dry hops, if not very aromatic nor fruity. Feels at least medium bodied, quite hopoil slick, medium carbonation. OK, fine, but you have to accept it sits on the fence between several styles; black IPA, dry stout, sweet stout, Belgian dark, etc.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 02 Apr 2022
at 14:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Draught Very dense & fine off-white head over fully hazy ochre-orange beer; textbook lace. Dry yeast features, grains, bit spicy malts. Somehow creamy nose, greenmalt. Sweet, malty, again rather spicy and quite yeast-intoned. Tastes young, almost unfinished, lots of maltsugars, only relieved by the spicyness, but in the same breath promising. Quite full MF for a tripel (and hence a bit too sweet); good carbonation, yeastslick. Promesses, promesses - more ripening and attenuation, and this might become a really excellent tripel.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 02 Apr 2022
at 14:24
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
Draught Crystal clear copper beer, still, with a huge ultra-fine and dense off-white head and textbook lace. Nice hops, very fruity and citrussy nose, inviting; lunaria, grapefruit, passion fruit, faint ureum, etc. Bitter and malty at the same time, slightly more discreet fruity notes, straw, dry. Not very slick for a wheatbeer, absolute clarity going along with this. Soft carbonation, medium bodied at best. Nail on the head! Exactly what I love and IMHO, this is the first IPA that can really called both IPA and Belgian - as a 'style'. IPA-like, but with a distinct Belgian character.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 02 Apr 2022
at 14:14
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught Dark tan head, very dense & fine over jet-black beer. Chocolate, tobacco, dark green leaves, ureum. Outspoken initial bitterness, roast, dry dark malts, but a lot of sweeter stuff lurking beneath. Bit of meatroast, (over)roasted peanuts. Warming up, aftertaste displays pipe tobacco smouldering. Medium bodied, not more. Medium carbonation, quite slick, oily feel. Nice. Still, I think the hops might be more prominent compared to the roast - at least if you call it "hoppy" porter.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 06 Dec 2021
at 07:00
5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2021
at 14:24