5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask 2005 Vintage Cask, but unconditioned, murky, all yeast in suspension. Smell of jenever, enormously alcoholic, appealing. Jenever taste, but also adstringent, pungent tastes of yeast, brandy cask, sugar (cane-) and other rather aggressive, intimidating substances. Thick is one way of putting it. Off. As the brewer - who chivalrously admitted that the cask had been omitted to vent - knows, casks are to be treated as prime high school girls, not like bimbo’s! Deserves a second rating under better circumstances.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2006
at 12:42