Franclh (7477) reviewed The Mash from D'Oude Maalderij 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Fles 33cl. Fruitig, peer, overrijp fruit, suikers, bloemig, redelijk koolzuur, lichte bittertonen, wat muf, licht droog, wat caramel. (22-12-2023).
omhper (44752) reviewed Stoffaesje from D'Oude Maalderij 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
--Bottled at Pressklubben, Stockholm. -- Hazy deep golden, mid sized head. Peppery marzipan aroma. Mid sweet with medium to full body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity with marzipan, grain and pears. Mid bitter finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a teku glass. Light sour nose. At first clear pale golden colour, after the 2nd pour including sediment cloudy and more towards medium golden colour, tall fine moussy stable white head, heavy lacing, Aroma farmyard, manure, horse blanket, overripe apples, unripe gooseberries, sourdough , all in all not really attractive. Taste mild sweet and sour, light bitterness, grain, sourdough, light citrus, unripe apples, some yoghurt, light vinegar, Medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation, dry sweet and sour aftertaste with strong earthy bitter notes, difficult to judge because of the high level of the manure and associated odours in the aroma, taste not enough to level up this beer, really a pity, so just okay.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Aggressive Dooom from D'Oude Maalderij 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bouteille 75cl, achetée lors du premier BXL, anno 2018, dégustée en Catalogne.
Noire intense, col épais café au lait virant sur le moka.
Arôme sur un malté généreux épais, grillé, caramel,f ruits noirs, chocolat noir.
Palais garde une approche assez belge - chargée en malts, bon gros stout à l'ancienne dans une lignée très Struise. Avec le temps, cette evrsion prend déjà un léger volet soja. Le tout sur un malté caramel, pâle, fruits noirs (mûres) et aussi de la figue - cela confère une petite note d'amertume en fin de bouche et une note aigrelette délicate, café un peu en retrait, malt crystal, feuille de tabac.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Mox Ruby from D'Oude Maalderij 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
The third in a series of DOM brews dedicated to a type of card game originating in the nineties; apparently the brewer intends to link a beer to each of the cards, which seem to be coveted collector's items among devotees of the game. Thanks to tderoeck for sharing. Moussy, frothy, stable, pale pinkish-tinged off-white head, hazy rosy-amber-glowing peach blonde robe. Aroma of indeed hibiscus but sweeter than I am used to from this ingredient, tulips and roses even, herb tea, honey, brioche bread, soap (probably just that hibiscus again), melon, rosewater. Fruity, sweet onset, ripe pear, melon and banana, fizzy carbonation, softish body; a very pronounced soapy and flowery hibiscus effect lies heavily on a frail bready malt sweetish core, developing further into bergamot-like citrusiness and tea-like herbaceousness, becoming a tad wry in the end - while the basics of the beer, malts and hops, are a bit lost under this overdose of hibiscus. I never liked hibiscus in beer to begin with and this one does it very much 'in your face' so this was never going to be 'my beer', but I must admit that it is quite daring and technically well made - so the lovers of flower-flavoured beers must taste this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a teku glass. Clear deep golden, good dense frothy white head, half-way lasting but a stable way, good lacing. Aroma sweet malts, Belgian yeast, peach, some banana, faint alcohol notes. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, bready malts, yeast, apricot, mineral impression, herbal notes. Above medium body, creamy mouthfeel,soft carbonation, smooth sweetbitter aftertaste, certain grainy harshness, light spicy notes, warming alcohol, well-balanced and solid blonde, good.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Mox Ruby from D'Oude Maalderij 3 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
20/I/23 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ Wim’s place, BB: +3Y, bottled: 14/II/22, batch: moxruby001 (2023-77)
Clear reddish orange to amber beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: weird, sweetish impression, some hibiscus indeed, bubble gum, raspberry jam. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bitter start, weird, dry, spicy, dusty, a bit chemical, sugary as well, very weird. Aftertaste: malty touch, fruity notes, some hibiscus, dry and bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Boon's participation in this ambitious series of collaborational brews, executed at and on the initiative of d'Oude Maalderij; after a similar series of collabs with 'true' craft brewers (Mash of the Titans), Jef Pirens considered it a good idea to put some of the more traditionally oriented Belgian breweries in the spotlights, whilst trying to draw them a bit "out of their comfort zone". So far I have not really encountered anything in this series that would make the participating brewery truly uncomfortable, but a porter brewed by (I assume Karel) Boon is something different, and conceptually speaking the most appealing beer in this series to me. Comes with a crown cap of Lupulus - apparently d'Oude Maalderij deliberately tried to mix all six breweries up by randomly capping the bottles, so that one bottle can have a crown cap of a totally different brewery, and so on - you get the idea. Thick and frothy, membrane-lacing, dense and firm, pale beige, creamy and stable head, misty dark chocolate brown robe - approaching black but not quite, with a reddish burgundy glow still visible around the edges. Aroma of coffee grounds, pine resin, burnt wood, roasted pecan nuts, dry leather, unsugared black chocolate, charred toast, cigar ashes, dried blackberries, dried thyme, salmiak, nutmeg, dry earth, spring water, black olive, autumn leaves, charcoal, green apple piercing through. Moderately fruity onset, sweetish but very restrainedly so and relatively 'clean', with only some faint hints of dried blackcurrant, green pear and dried apple peel, surrounded by a thin but meaningful, black olive-like layer of 'friendly' umami, fitting in well; active carbonation adding minerally effects, smooth hard-caramelly and brown-bready core losing all the sweetness if ever there was any, especially when a strong toastiness sets in, quickly moving into full-blown roasted chicory-like bitterness, with a sourish edge from roasted grains. This roasty bitterness fills the mouth, creating overall dryness, but a bit later, a strong, leafy, almost piney and wormwoody hop bitterness invades, strongly amplifying the roasted bitter component (which at this point has acquired near-ashy side impressions). A very long, dry, thoroughly bitter finish ensues, with both the roastiness and the hoppiness remaining strong, overpowering mildly earthy yeasty elements and whatever 'dark' fruitiness was left at this point. Very powerful, packed with dryness, bitterness, roastiness and maltiness, with an unusually high hop dosage for a porter: if the hops were any more aromatic and New World-oriented, this would easily have qualified as a black IPA rather than a porter. Hoppy porter - or dry stout if you will, because at this point there really is no difference, and no point arguing about it either - unless you draw the old history card, of course. I expected something milder and more 'rounded' from a beer labelled as a porter - call this a stout and you will be fine, but as I have said hundreds of times before in all those years of beer reviewing, porter and stout really are a continuum so it makes little sense discussing this at all. Whether porter, stout or even 'European style' black IPA: this is one feisty little beer, packing a lot of flavour at its ABV, but I expect the 'die hard' beer geeks to find it too earthy and ashy. As an elderly beer lover and missing these old school stouts and porters from time to time, I must admit that I liked it quite a lot, so far this is decidedly the best of these Mash of the Classics for me - and a compliment to Boon for, as it were, translating the power of lambic into a beer they themselves would never even consider to make. I do not expect Boon to set up a line of top-fermented porters or stouts any time soon, but one thing is for certain: the most anticipated beer of this pack (for me) does not disappoint.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Oude Maalderij started this new series of collabs with the intention of pulling some of the more traditionally oriented Belgian breweries out of their comfort zone - let us see if that idea applies to de la Senne too, a 'modern classic' and quite unique in its approach to Belgian traditions. This one is presented as a saison, fermented with a kveik yeast strain - which in itself does not really sound as something Senne would not do themselves, actually... Thick and foamy, egg-white, dense and creamy, pillowy, stable, membrane-lacing head, initially clear 'old golden' robe with a few strings of sparkling rushing upwards in the middle, turning misty and somewhat more apricot-hued with sediment. Aroma of overripe plum, manure (strong initially!), rotting pineapple, pear, soggy white bread, stale urine, rotting eggs (H2S), green apple juice, grass. Crisp onset, sharp and fizzy carbonation, very minerally; fruity with notes of green apple, unripe banana, pear and peach, but rather subdued in sweetness. Slick mouthfeel, fuller than expected at this strength; cereally and thinly white-bready malts with a touch of fruity sweetness on top, pear- and a bit pineapple-like, but also with a dim yet important sourish touch beneath. That awful manure scent does not return too strongly, fortunately; instead a vaguely citric, floral and grassy hop bitterness comes along, lingering for quite a while in an earthy, leafy manner. Traces of yellow-green fruitiness linger along. If it were not for that off-putting smell of manure, this could have been a fine grisette style beer, with the right amount of dryness, bitterness and body - but that smell remains so prevalent that I just could not get past it. Sorry guys, I have liked almost everything Senne did so far, but this one smells so unattractive that it cannot have been the intention. A pity, because as said, purely structurally this is not a bad beer at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
One in a second series of Brewmance beers, collabs of Oude Maalderij with other breweries, in this series breweries apparently considered 'classic' - which seems to have to do more with stylistic reasons than historical ones, considering Het Nest, the collaborating brewery in this one, was only founded in 2007. Apparently intended as a strong(ish) 'spéciale belge' (an old term for Belgian style amber ale) but dry-hopped; throw a wild yeast strain into this mash and you end up with something close to Orval, I reckon... Thick and frothy, egg-white, dense and creamy, tiny-bubbled, stable head with fringed edges; clear deep copper-glowing pure amber, more amber really than most of the 'real' spéciales belges, a beautiful sight I must say (I have a weak spot for this shade of beer colour), with some disparate tiny bubbles here and there and turning misty and somewhat brownish-tinged with sediment. Aroma of soggy grey bread, damp earth, wet autumn leaves, tea, something broccoli-like, raw sugar beet, old peanuts, hints of dried orange peel, nutmeg and - oddly and tucked away in the background - 'speculoos' or other cookies. Dryish onset, restrained in sweetness but still hinting at red apple, pear, medlar and vague apricot, light sourish touch, softish carbonation with rounded, slightly creamy mouthfeel; typical amber-malty backbone, peanutty, bread-crusty and a bit cookie-like but low in sweetness, with a toasty bitter edge that grows stronger towards the end, when it becomes reinforced by leafy, earthy hops (wet fallen tree leaves again, old tea, dandelion). Spicy phenols (clove, nutmeg, thyme) abound, interfering a bit with the hops - but that said, the hops do not provide a lot of exuberant aroma anyway, maintaining an old European 'noble' character of leaves, grass and herbs. Powdery yeastiness in the end further enhances a very earthy finish, luckily avoiding unpleasant 'dirtiness' though, so that malts, hops and phenols get the last word. Stronger, yeastier, maltier, spicier and much more earthy than the classic 'spéciale belge', this whole beer reminds me very strongly of an old school Walloon 'ambrée' (which is not entirely the same thing as a spéciale belge in my book). 'Classic' in style indeed, but not bad.