7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is dank fruity hops, tropical fruits, citrus, onions, weed, orange, grapefruit, herbal hops. Flavour is light sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium. Well done Frontaal, good variety of NE IPA, contrary to many other Dutch breweries they seem to understand the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is fruity hops, juicy tropical fruits, citrus, soft dank hops, light stone fruits, weed, grass, orange. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium. Wonderfully juicy with lots of fruits and dank notes, great IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is spicy with dark chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, cinnamon, liquorice, nutmeg, cardamom, speculaas, and coffee. Flavour is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Full body with a touch of booze. Liquid speculaas and/or stroopwafel, nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is caramel malt, toffee, raisins, candied/dried fruits, pear, some molasses, soft roast, marzipan, bit syrupy with a touch of liquor and chocolate. Flavour is sweet with a hoppy bitterness in the finish. Body is full. Pleasant and fairly rich Barley Wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is fruity hops, tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, orange peel, some melon, light pine, and a definite floral/perfumed touch. Flavour is moderate sweet with a bitter finish. Body is medium. Nicely fruity west coast-ish IPA, sturdy bitterness, another Frontaal winner.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:36
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Drankenspeciaalzaak Jelle, Leeuwarden. Aroma is roasted malt, creamy lactose, caramel, light smoke, some milk chocolate and a hint of dark fruits. Flavour is above moderate sweet and light bitter. Body is light and weak. Nice milk stout aroma, but the flavour and body just can't match it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, subtle whiskey, liquorice, chocolate, with some notes of wood. Flavour is above medium sweet with a moderate roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is above medium, no sign of the 10%, perhaps a bit thin for the style. Fairly subtle barrel character here, but the aging has mellowed out the liquorice which I found too upfront in the base beer. I like this one, maybe a bit too subtle for its own good but I vastly prefer this over those iodine-bombs a lot of 'elite' Dutch breweries produce nowadays.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is pretty strong liquorice with roasted malt, soft bourbon, light oaky, raisins, dark chocolate, coffee. Flavour is above medium sweet with a nice roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is medium to full. Nicely roasty and bittersweet with liquorice, coffee and dark chocolate, enriched by a modest barrel character. Hardly the biggest, but enjoyable Stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is roasted malt with mocha, chocolate, syrup, coffee, liquorice, notes of ripe dark fruits and a faint hint of hops. Flavour is rather sweet with a fairly strong roasty bitterness. Body is medium to full. Quite sweet and syrupy, bit boozy. Enjoyable nightcap.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Sterk Amsterdam. Aroma is herbal tea, orange peel, hops, pine resin, malt, bit candied fruits, touch caramel. Flavour is almost medium sweet with a fairly bitter finish. Body is medium. Lacks fresh fruity hoppiness, but this is enjoyable if you dig a lot of herbal tea in your IIPA. I quite liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:33