Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught Small, very fine & dense snowwhite head over hazy orange-ochre beer with a mossy sheen. Rather neutral nose with discreet hops (EU/UK); grains, garden herbs. Bitterish-grainy flavour with good balance; Sweetness as an afterthought, but nowhere cloying or exagerated. Faintly nutty, bit yeasty. Hops give exactly enough dryness. Light to medium bodied, very slick. Pleasing, maybe a tad less bold than the La Trappe version, but excellent session beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught; beer ready, but unfiltered yet. Appearance not applicable. Very yeasty, but with clear grassy, pale malt notes, and a bit of vegetable oil. Yeast & spicy bitterness from the hops, apertly due to diminish still after filtration, as the hopacids are still attached to the yeast. Dry finish, fermentation fully done. Dry hopping is very obvious. Yeast slickness, with a long-lasting spicy hops’ aftertaste. Lots of promise, will be better after rough-filtration.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Jet-black with some ruby highlights, and a Guinness head. Charcoal, roasted & lightly smoked; very stout-like features, more than Rauch. Hint at phenols. Roasted, burnt, again extremely Guinness-clone like. Restsweetness lurking in the background, phenols all but gone. Bit of dry, non-sweet liquorice. Very creamy texture, medium bodied, and very slick and dry. Definitely more stout than smoked. As a stout, it’s surprisingly professional, technically perfect.