Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle: Dark chestnut colored pour with a thin ring of sandy head. Aroma is standard fare; oak, lightly vinous, and sour. Flavor is adds in more fruity elements and some candied Belgian sugar. Mellower than the nose would suggest. Ok overall and pretty tame compared to the studs in this style, but certainly refreshing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bouteille 330ml, courtoisie de SlovakSniper. De couleur brune foncée et semi-voilée. Nez fruité (petits fruits rouges, notes de raisins), malté de caramel avec des tracees de chocolat avec des notes de sucre brun, de pain et de vinaigre balsamique. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement bas-moyen et une texture légèrement huileuse. Goût fruité sucré (cerises, notes de raisins, traces de petits fruits foncés) avec très fin goût de vinaigre balsamique ainsi que quelques traces de bois humide lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût malté de caramel doux avec des notes de pain ainsi que des traces de sucre brun et de malt très légèrement rôti puis en finale la légère aigreur fruitée revient doucement reprendre sa place. Post-goût moyen et un peu sec, très légèrement aigre de fruits (moût de cerises et de raisins).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
0.33l bottle @ Braai Tapperij de Mug, Middelsburg. This is a blurry deep raw red-brown one with a small lightly sidesticking woody-brown head. It has a light caramelly-sweet aroma, some dusty chocolate in here, I also get some dark black ripe berries here. Not extreme, and my nose is getting all sorts of other smoky and perfumy aromas from the people sitting next to me, but I found the aroma in the beer quite nice. Oh, it was a really sweet one! Reminds me of a faro-lambic! Sugar syrup, not any bitterness to speak home about, hints of something acidic in here also. Not especially good, but this is one of those beers I will remember more of the story behind getting it - not so much for the flavor itself. 30.05.2012
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle from Venerables. Clear brown colour, beige head. Aroma is caramel malts, candy sugar, fruits. Flavour is caramel malts, fruity, brown sugar, bit of spices. Sweet finish. All in all quite artificial, made like a mediocre parody on a dubbel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Venerables. Hazy light golden colour, off-white head. Nose is yeasty, orange, bit of caramel. Flavour is yeasty, fruity, light malted, slightly sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml.Clear medium to dark brown amber colour with a average to large, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, light roasted and bread, light berry - toffee. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, caramel, paperback, roasted - coffee notes, berry acidic notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120316]Earlier Rating: 7/22/2008 Total Score: 2.9Bottle 25cl.Clear medium to dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, caramel (syntetic), bread, moderate to heavy brown sugar - syrup. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (240508)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This 33cl bottle has been hanging around my shelves for some time and I thought it time to release it. I popped it into the fridge and here we are. So on a sunny evening in early June 2010 I poured the bottle into a ’forbidden fruit’ badged chalice. The beer poured a deep dark ruby red colour, an off-white almost tan coloured head sat on top for about 10 seconds before becoming a collar and wispy covering. The smell was of semi-sour/semi-sweet old cherries without the pips and hints of something to come. I am not a big fan of the Belgian sourpuss beers (check out some of my reviews, I’ve had plenty), so I was pleasantly pleased to find this wasn’t one of those vinegarous brews. This hoovers just above sour and could almost be called sweet by some, I’ll go for ’bordering on toothsome’. The sweetness does appear to get sweeter as the beer warmed, which isn’t good, but I enjoyed the beer from start to finish. Not your regular Flanders Red, but one of the best in my eyes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle @ home. Clear golden color, huge rocky head. Aroma is bit metallic and grainy malt with some belgian yeast esters. When the bad aroma’s have disappeared some decent ginger and orange perfumes arise. Only slightly bitter taste, again the hint of cardboard. Only a faint hint of fruity hop taste. Bit boring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle @ FOneFan. Dark amber/brown with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, caramel, bread and a little coffee. Flavour is malt, sweet, caramel, berries and sugar.