Bottle at home shared with Laura. Clear pale golden color, full sized rough white head. Aroma and flavor are light to moderately malty, a bit sweet, softly herbal perhaps. Okay.

330ml bottle. Cloudy, amber colour with average to huge, frothy, osteoporosing, moderately lacing, off-white head. Sweet-ish, floral aroma, notes of honey, floral honey. Taste is sweet, floral and mildly bitter hoppy, minimally diluted notes of honey, petals; bitter, floral finish with alcoholic overtones.
Watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, prickly to lively carbonation.
More diluted honey than beer, a tad disharmonious, imbalanced, too bitter - not really convincing.

Already the sixteenth one in this Kompel Nostalgia Collection, keeping the memory of Limburgian coal mining history alive; the name is Limburg dialect and means “the last mine”, which in fact was the one at Zolder, closed in 1992. Egg-white, thick and dense, shred-lacing, stable head over a clear copper bronze robe with amber-orangey glow. Aroa of dry biscuit, pear, vanilla from the oak chips used, eau de vie, strawberry jam, blonde candi sugar, honey, caramel, ‘graanjenever’, some iron. Sweet, clean, rounded onset, lively carbonated, hints of banana, raspberry and strawberry, slick and smooth mouthfeel; slender caramelly core with blonde-sugary edges, a tad biscuity too, but also a bit metallic round the edges. Oak chips provide a background whiff of vanillin but hardly any ‘deeper’ flavour; more dryness comes from the alcohol, paired with a touch of soft floral hops. Ends quite boozy (jenever) with caramelly, sugary undertones. Feels like a very sleek, macro-brewed, mass-marketed and ‘short-cut’ version of La Trappe Quadrupel, with less body and less depth of flavour – a decent quad for the masses, so to speak, but feeling a bit, well, ‘incomplete’, something I have encountered in other Kompel ales as well. Maybe some ageing could turn this one more interesting?

A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mild herbal and spicy malt, floral hops. Taste of mild sweet dry grainy malt, cereals, yeast.

White head over hazy orange-yellow beer. Vegetable, pale malts. Very faraway citrus, white candi sugar. Warming up, it acquires an aroma of meatstock. Oxydation (well within BBd!), again pale malts. Pineapple ester, white bread. Slick, almost sticky, good carbonation. The oxydation (malts?) gradually falls away, but remains annoying. I'm sorry, but I'm getting this Nostalgia Collection more as a cash-in gimmick.

8/III/25 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: X/2026 (2025-265) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear bright red beer, small creamy light beige head, a little stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: strawberry jam, caramel, malty, a bit yeasty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, yeasty, some banana, a gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: fruity, sugary, a bit hoppy, lots of alcohol, a bit yeasty, some banana peel, a bit medicinal, caramel touch, very mediocre beer, but no surprise after what I’ve already tasted from the Kompel series.

Bottle at home shared with Laura. Murky brown color, average sized beige head. Aroma is malts, iron and dusty notes a bit. Flavor is malts, sweetish malty notes at first, some more brown malt bitters in the finish. Firm fizzy carbonation, average body.