Bottle at home, darker orange beer, large head. Aroma is malt, grain, honey, sweet. Taste is the same, sweet, malt, grain, honey. ok

Pours hazed blonde. Small white head. Scent is intense on esters. Taste is fairly bitter, be yeast profile quite strong. Feels a bit oily. Relatively sweet finish, especially for the style. Ok.

Bottle at home, blonde golden beer, small head. Aroma is citrus, yeast, hops, esters, fruit, malt, some herbalness. Taste is the same, bitter, spicy yeast, fruit, esters, nice one.

Quite good, cream head over virtually black beer. Chocolate, liquorice, sweet roast, dark if sweet bread. Sweet roast, some ashes, chocolate, hints of coffee beans, chocolated koffiebonen, but also maltsyrup. Very finish has a backthroat hoppy bitterness, charcoal. Medium bodied at least, very oily feel, good carbonation. Not half bad, but it is not a real Doppelbock, IMHO. Txs to Stef!

Bottle. Dull malty aroma with little hop character. Bit too sweetish with a light bitterness. Light to medium body. Boring.

330ml bottle in 13i, a sports bar with a decent beer list in Valkenburg, on 3rd November 2025. Dark malty brew with a fairly sweet feel. Caramel like flavours before a dark fruit undertone takes away some of the sweetness.

330ml bottle in 13i a sports bar with a decent beer list in Valkenburg, on 3rd November 2025. Almost clear golden orange body, white crust on top. Semi sweet in nature, subtle honey notes, floral hints and all a bit strange really. Some herbal traces within too.

Fles 33cl thuis. Belgisch gist, bloemig, droog, steenfruit, wat wheaty. (11-10-2025).

The eighteenth one already in this still expanding series of beers devoted to the former mining industry in Limburg, this time a hybrid of blonde beer and white wine, infused with grape juice, fermented with Portuguese wine yeast, 'aged' on oak chips and hopped with Nelson Sauvin (known for its associations with Sauvignon Blanc). Intricately 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, snow white, medium thick, regular and stable head over an initially crystal clear, pale golden blonde beer with vague greenish tinge and thin, disparate sparkling, turning lightly misty with sediment. Aroma of unripe pineapple, green pear, grape skins more than grape juice, white peach, light but clear 'oaky' vanillin indeed, spumante, dry straw, apple peel, clove, dried chamomile, wet gravel, something annoyingly rubbery in the background. Fizzy onset, minerally, with 'yellow' fruitiness swirling around in a not overly sweet way - white peach, unripe pineapple, green banana, hard pear. Supple, smooth body, slick cereally-grainy pale maltiness indeed 'flavoured' with something - first the grape juice adding a fruitiness and juiciness without becoming dominant, and then, more outspokenly, the vanilla-ish character of the oak chips. Nelson Sauvin hops indeed add a background whiff of fruitiness - all too subtly so in my opinion - as well as a grassy, somewhat spicy but altogether mild, slowly 'spreading' end bitterness, in which a light tannic effect from the grape juice and the oak chips can be felt. Lingering 'yellow-white' fruitiness as well as somewhat pronounced 4-vinyl-guaiacol retronasally, the latter adding a clove-like effect which in my view clashes a bit with the white wine effects they tried to incorporate here. Reminds me a bit of Château d'Ychouffe and the like, but the wine factor is far less outspoken here, even though a dryish-fruity white wine flavour does linger on the tongue even minutes after swallowing; not being a great fan of beer-wine hybrids and blends, for me personally this is probably a good thing. Altogether decent, but a bit 'rubbery' and phenolic and therefore short of greatness, as usual with these Kompel beers.