EvNa (6056) reviewed Buurmans Blond from Dit Bier 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From tap at 't VoorHuys / Fletcher hotel Oud London in Zeist. Color: Hazy golden, white head. Taste: Malty, yeasty notes, sugary hints, hoppy backbone.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed #25 Stout from Dit Bier 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Strong stout by a brewery in Zeist (their 25th beer apparently) aged on oak chips; enjoyed at the Lelystad marina. Moussy, yellowish mocha-beige, quite dense and fairly stable head, eventually dissipating over a pitch black beer. Aroma of espresso powder and generally cold black coffee, strong liquorice, coffee filters, rainwater, wet leather, ‘drop’ and ‘Haagse hopjes’, cigar ashes, fried black olives, bonfire, burnt blackberries, salmiak, gin, old wood indeed but lacking that lovely vanilla scent which typifies oak. Sweetish and slightly sourish onset, dried blackberries and burnt currants, moderately carbonated with slick, rounded mouthfeel; dry hard-caramelly core almost immediately shifting to strong, mouth-filling, coffee-like roasted bitterness, enhanced by spicy hops and oaky tannins but again no vanilla – so this could contain any wood species other than oak, I guess… The pronounced liquorice from the nose returns but less obnoxiously so than expected, while ashy and boozy (gin) flavours increase in a long, dry, roasty finish. Something of an old school export stout, relatively straightforward in this day and age, but effective enough – and by far the best of the three Dit beers tasted that evening.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed #27 Hazy Bock from Dit Bier 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The 27th Dit beer, a Doppelbock apparently explicitly intended to be hazy – I guess to distinguish it from the average German Doppelbock and to evoke an association with hazy IPA? Off-white, open, thinnish but largely retaining head, cloudy ruddy-brownish-hued ‘dirty’ orange blonde robe. Aroma clearly oxidized, with impressions of rusty iron, wet cardboard and old fried chicken, tea, cigarette tobacco, dried peach, old bread crust, apricot, old wood. Some restrained sweetness in the onset, dried fig and apricot elements but subtle in fruitiness and very low in residual sugars; soft carb (too soft even for a Doppelbock), slick and rather thin body. Caramelly malts with bready edges and something weirdly ashy and cigarette-like on top which must be related to the applied wood chips (were these burnt?), lacking in that typical vanilla aroma linked to oak. Oxidation of both malts (rust) and hops (old tea), along with a dash of noticeable alcohol, get the last word. Thinly and unevenly structured, oxidized and downright weird: how was this even made? And what is a ‘hazy Bock’ to begin with? Bizarre beer, but by no means a very enjoyable one.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed #16 Jochem Honing Tripel from Dit Bier 2 years ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Honey-flavoured strong blonde ale executed in the kettles of Dit Bier by an improvised client brewer apparently calling themselves Beste Maten. Thanks to Hinke for sharing at MJ Café at the Lelystad marina. The 16th beer in this range apparently. Snow white, open, large- and uneven-bubbled, irregular head, initially clear pure warm honeyed golden robe, misty with sediment. Aroma of old chewing gum, plaster, withering garden weeds, banana, leftover dough, clove, rubber, varnish, even band aid, grass. Sweet onset, banana ester, hints of pineapple and apple peel (acetaldehyde?), softly carbonated with slick, thinnish pale malt sweetish body, gathering effects of rubber, wet white paper and eventually even nail polish and band aid – instead of that herbaceous fragrance one ought to get in a honey beer. Some grassy hops, lingering banana ester and boozy, cheap wodka-like alcohol in a clearly badly structured finish. Way too solventy, unbalanced and feebly constructed, this Belgian style honey beer is one to avoid at all cost. It says enough that a fruit fly landed on the table, walked up to the glass, halted and shook its head, only to reverse course and fly off…