7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 33 cl) Dark brown with a fine, stable head. Some roasted, caramellish notes but still with an almost tobacco-like dryness. Notes of both licorice, chocolate and perhaps even...coffee? Lovely not too sweet Dubbel. 221097 and 170598
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2005
at 09:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
(Bottle 33 cl) The "Abt" is normally the top-product in a range of abbey-beers - and this is no exception from that rule. Dark golden with a fairly huge head. Fruity, spicy freshnes in spite of the very potent, warming alcohol. Some good hoppiness in the finish. A rather atypical Abt - but still nice. 061097
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2005
at 09:09
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
Slightly hazy amber coloured body with strong ruby highlights and a nice frothy off-white head. Aroma of malt, coriander seed, curacao, caramel and a very light hop presence. Light-bodied; Metallic & vegetable tasting up front with pungent twangs of blood and stale malt. Some funky sweet flavours follow soon afterwards, then leaving a bitterness in the palate that lasts and lasts. Overall, a fairly bad beer-nothing too great going on in this one. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased in the special four pack at Village Pump Liquors in College Park, Maryland on 15-January-2004 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2005
at 21:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Yet they swear it’s not the same as the Cuvée Hommelhof... Orange to amber, virtually no head. Very alcoholic nose, dry white sugar, touch fruity. Bit of caramel, notes of white bread, alcohol, white candi sugar flavour. Roasted too, but restrained. Treacherously light MF, alcoholburn is the only warning about its potency. Some mix. Still I wonder under which names it has been around before.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2005
at 15:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Straw gold; very dense fine head, white with pinkish shine. Straw, grassy, pils malt nose. Quite sweet, very malty taste, pinch of hard Dutch cheese & dry summer grain. Medium bodied at best, bit of grist and dusty slickness, certain throatwarming. Nice mix. If you can believe it, the brewing engineer didn’t recall which Van Eecke beers he had mixed for this result...
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2005
at 14:22
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cream-brown head, collapsing; dark brown beer, with red highlights. Dry stout nose, dark malts, dried wheat, appealing. VERY sweet taste, tons of liquorice, and after some time, again grain. Quite well-bodied, long, sticky aftertaste. Unimportant sweet stout. Doesn’t come near to some of its concurrents.
Tried
on 04 Jun 2005
at 13:56
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle Ruby body. Creamy, brown head. Sweet nose. Lightly sweet, heavily sweet flavour. Where’s the stout?
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2005
at 17:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle shared with Muzzlehatch on 5/22/2005 at the "Crappy Maine beers plus two random Belgians and a Cider" tasting. Best Before date is 12/31/2004. Orange-golden colored body, highly unfiltered with the yeast suspended in the pattern of a cyclone. Wow, never seen that before. Large white/off-white head, fairly rapidly dissipating due to the age, with ample lacing. Nose shows lots of Belgian yeast right away. Quite dry and lightly dusty, but has hops and caramel/honey maltiness. Oxidized, but not in a bad way, with a rich caramel and sherry flavor. Very rich body is full and the mouthfeel is soft and amorous. Light candied oranges on the finish with more sugar and light hops bitterness. As we are probably looking at a 2001 bottle, I would say this was quite impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2005
at 11:46
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Bottle 75 cl) Beer made especially for Restaurant "’t Hommelhof" in the town square of Watou. A resturant specializing in excellent food made from the local brew. E.g. ham with St. Bernadus Tripel. This beer is a light, filtered ale, which comes in a rugged champagne-bottle (like old classic gueuze) with a cork and no label. Incredibly fresh aroma, almost like flowers. Spicy, aromatic, slightly perfumed, but with an apparent bitterness. Quite a refined beer. Brings reminders of Popering’s Hommelbier. Read somewhere that this should be a blend of "Het Kapittel Abt" and "Watous Witbier". 280704
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2005
at 06:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
(Bottle 25 cl) Deep golden colour with a nice, full head - good lacing. I had expected a very hoppy beer and although the hops definately are present they’re in no way overpowering. The candi-sugarish sweetness is more pronounced combined with a floral, fresh fruitiness. A very harmonic strong golden ale. 070795 Re-sampled as "Kurz & Gut" (!) 031004
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2005
at 05:19