Bottle at Cotteridge Wines V Ratebeer event; clear light amber pour with a creamy beige head, aroma has honey and yeast, taste has some hint of hop bite and some harsh yeast action.

Cotts 2019. Sweet sugary fruit aroma. Amber. Creamy but blotchy off-white head. Light bitter. Syrupy sweet streak. Light-medium bodied. Thin. Soft-Average carbonation. Abrupt finish. Fine.

Shared at the Cotteridge Convention 2019. Poured a hazy medium amber a mostly frothy white head. The aroma is grainy malt, floral, herbal. The flavour is moderate bitter, with a light, crisp, fruity, floral, dry hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

At Cotteridge Convention V 2019. Hazy amber colour lasting beige head. water aroma. Decent hop. Some malt some hop some esters. odd . light puke. ok hop finish.

One of three commissioned beers executed by Holland's barrel aged stout specialist - the other two being aged on bourbon and cognac barrels, respectively. Shared with Jan. Very dense and inches thick, even hard to pour, pale mocha beige, very creamy, plaster-like lacing head on a black beer with not much more than one millimetre of visible burgundy-reddish hue off the edges. Extremely solventy fusel aroma, fresh paint, varnish and nail polish remover, weighing heavily on the nonetheless rich features of hot chocolate sauce, liquorish, Irish coffee, mocha ice cream, wet wooden furniture, hazelnut paste, treacle, candied fig, stewed plums, Flemish beef stew note somewhere, brown soap. Very sweet onset, syrupy, candied fig, light beefy umami accent, soft carb, oily mouthfeel, full but feeling a bit thinner than expected for a beer of this potency; nevertheless a rich chocolatey, walnutty, toffeeish black maltiness fills the mouth, carrying along a roast-chicory-like bitterness in its tail, which in itself is overpowered by the armagnac booziness - heating and chest-warming alright, but even more so by that very strong fusel alcohol effect; lingering 'fondant' chocolate bittersweetness, light but drying tannic effects from the wood and a warming, not unpleasant brandy effect (the armagnac indeed) with even a dash of meaty umami lingering make up for a lot, but there is an overall liquorish flavour persisting through it all which I can imagine makes this beer potentially less drinkable to some. For me, however, it was that strong ethylacetate solvent effect that makes me classify this beer well below many of the wonderful, groundbreaking and often profoundly deep barrel aged stouts De Molen - now sadly in Bavaria's clutches - has produced in its many years of existence. I had two of the three in this series now, but with this much 'solventiness', I will certainly hesitate to buy the third one.

Bottle at home. Clear a bit pale yellow color, decent sized white head. Smell and taste malts and that's it. Absolutely don't know how to describe this beer. Flavor is simply bland. Is it sweet? Not really. Bitter? Not really. Yeasty? Hmm not really. Fruity? Nope. Drinkable but completely uninteresting. 6-3-6-3-10.

Bottle from Carrefour Calais and drunk at home. Hazy pale gold head. Lasting white head. Floral hoppy aroma. Some yeast character no doubt. Not a bad blond. Just a bit too earthy. Good hop aroma. Bit muddy earthy for me.

Bouteille 33 trouvée je ne sais plus où, je pense dans un calendrier de l'Avent de bière. Bière ambrée foncée, jolie couleur, mousse claire. Nez sur du malt grillé. En bouche, malt et caramel, amertume légère, manque un peu de corps et de caractère, ne sort pas du lot.

Appearance: Very dark brown, small tan head. Aroma: Dark malt, roasted and burnt. Some Armagnac and tartness. Taste: Dark malt, Armagnac, roasted. Some tart dark fruits. Bought: Garosch, 330 ml, CHF 5.90 Info: 19/12-2018, BB: 31/1-2028