Kraddel (15844) reviewed Grote Klos from CyDraLe 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours rather clear amber. Smell is strong, spice ( phenols, or added spices, or both ? ) . Taste is full, bit bitter, spices, bit dry, mild sweetness. medium high carbo.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Witches Brew It Better from CyDraLe 6 years ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Pours rather unclear, dark brown. Small white head. Smell is malty, mild chocolate. bit fruity. Taste is full, malty, creamy. Mild lactose, esters, phenols are strongly present. Bit medicinal, 'wrang' as we say in Dutch. Perhaps fermented a bit to warm ?
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Witches Brew It Better from CyDraLe 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark brown-ish beer; cream head gone in seconds. Rainwater; very, very faint roast... and that's it. Roast, sweetish-fruity as rosehips. Lactose is traceable, kefir less obvious, unless for the slight acidity. LIght, well-carbonated, slick. Nose is absent, rest is not bad, but hardly exciting. I'll go to the witches next time.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed MCCL 2019 Cognac BA from CyDraLe 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Slightly dull cognac-golden colour. Wood, honey, old beeswax, old furniture, pears. Dryish, sweet but oxydized in the finish: old grains. Warming up, certainly retronasal, clearly cognac. Very slick, oily, alcoholwarming. Lean body impression. Extra dry for a mead. Pretty interesting stuff.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Grote Klos from CyDraLe 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
New CyDraLe beer made for the Poldermuseum in Lillo and named after a local celebrity of days long past. Apparently this man, nicknamed ‘Grote Klos’ in the region, was renowned for a homemade tonic to which medicinal properties were ascribed and which contained a large number of botanicals, all of which are represented in this beer, and summed up in the ingredients list (extra point for this kind of detailed information – many Belgian brewers do not even mention the use of coriander in their beer). Bottle from Kevin Devos’ beer shop in Kontich. Snow white, mousy, regularly edged, shred-lacing, slowly opening head on a misty peach blonde beer with somewhat ‘dirty’ orange hue. Aroma – as expected – strongly dominated by ethereal, cough syrup- and spice rack-like botanical perfume, with a strong anise presence likely linked to the (garden) angelica, while sage is also quite noticeable; camomile is only distantly there and the other plant extracts that went in here (silver birch, mistletoe, stinging nettle, devil’s claw from South Africa, centaury and field horsetail) are unsurprisingly unnoticeable, but then again most of these do not have very outspoken aromas in ‘living’ form anyway; underneath lie more ‘beery’ notes of soggy bread, cooked apple, freshly cut grass, clove-like phenols, peach, sweetbread, gin. Sweet onset, banana and ripe peach esteriness, medium carb, full and fluffy mouthfeel; very bread pulp-like middle, sweetish with unfermented honeyish sugars and a light caramelly side, soaked in utterly strong spiciness – partially of a phenolic nature due to fermentation, but of course mostly because of all those added plant extracts, again with angelica and sage being dominant and the others remaining all but unnoticeable. Ends with a strong, wry, warming, gin-like alcohol glow. Completely out of balance, too boozy and too phenolic on top of all that spiciness: I did not expect a lot from this and that suspicion turned out to be justified.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Grote Klos from CyDraLe 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as CyDraLe Grote Klos (by CyDraLe):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5
7/VI/19 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting, home, BBE: 2021 - (2019-825) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, small creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: all banana, very yeasty, sugary, almond biscuits, more banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter touch, phenols, sugary, spicy, banana, yeast, herbal touch. Aftertaste: weird, spicy and yeasty, some cloves, sugary, lots of alcohol, all banana, bit sourish, alcohol, meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Donkergeel bier met veel schuim. Smaak is bitter en ietwat kruidig met iets van zoete druiven en abrikoos. Fijn bier, drinkt makkelijk weg.
MarcoDL (7854) reviewed Specialleke from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Bottle at Bumba. Aroma of cardboard, iron and malt. Flavor of cardboard, iron and malt also. Why do they make cardboard eisbocks? Abomination.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Wenig würziger, trocken herber Beginn. Milde Süße, wenig herb, laff. Muss nicht. 8/7/7/7//7
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Murky pale golden-ish color with white head. Aroma is sour candy, fresh yeast. Taste is yeastcake. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. 3-2-4-2-5 Tap version: much better, a bit hoppy, pale malts, fresher, less yeastcakey.