7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Medium to good dense, cream-coloured head over orangeish amber beer. Peat, tarr, Islay whisky - nothing but very classic. Slight touch of orangepeel. Tarr, phenols and, once more, orangepeel. Tarred wood. For the rest, the beer itself presents little noteworthy features. Thinnish MF, watery, quite carbonated; Definitely better than The Kraken. Or - is it because I like Islay malt taste, and certainly Ardbeg...? Once more, the claimed ABV seems hard to swallow.
Tried
on 09 Dec 2015
at 12:44
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Small greyish-cream head, dwindling over orangeish amber beer. Brandy jumping out of the glass, and also marked oranges+alcohol, as in Mandarine Napoléon, but also Sangria. Plastic, solvent, chemical flavours. Fruity - again oranges, yes - but again as a artifical addition to fruitsweets. Not pleasant. Thin, alcoholic (but..), somewhat burning MF. Feels quite carbonated but absolutely doesn’t look the part. Kraken? Little scuttlefish, yes. And I have some serious doubts about this claimed ABV.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2015
at 15:35
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Thanks to Kraddel! 500 ml. bottle sampled. Bottle # 222/666. Pours a nasty & murky orange brown with bubbles only on the side. Nose is huge massive band aid with heavy weird plastic, rotting candy, big sugar, strong butter, almost touch sour, rotting lemons style, more weird & muddled wine sugar. Taste is butter, plastic & very heavy band aids, touch esters, the barrel is here but all weird, muddled & watery in the back with layers of band aids & sugar, you get touch of oak & massive cheap sugar & sugary wine,… Weird & watery. Pretty much flat, watery, thin, watery sugar. I am sorry but I think that this is horrible, tastes like the base beer was a catastrophe and the barrel was meant to mask that fact. The other ratings are good, the probably might just lay with me & maybe I just don’t get this beer. Sadly I couldn’t drink this at all. Same goes for its brother Kraken. Label is cool but came across better on paper than it does on the label.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2015
at 02:39
2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 2
Thanks to Kraddel! 500 ml. bottle sampled. Bottle # 208/666. Hazy orange, some bubbles only on the side. Nose is horrendous, phenolic, watery, battery acid in your face, something rotting sour, peat comes across as hugely plastic in a bad way. Taste is rotting, plastic, battery acid, plastic, weirdly sour, hugely buttery, spoiled, watery body, mild peat behind this mess, big sugar, touch nail pollis,… Pretty much flat, watery & buttery. I am sorry but I think that this is horrible, tastes like the base beer was a catastrophe and the barrel was meant to mask that fact. The other ratings are good, the probably might just lay with me & maybe I just don’t get this beer. Sadly I couldn’t drink this at all. Same goes for its brother Kraken. Label is cool but came across better on paper than it does on the label.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2015
at 02:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours unclear orange. Small white head. smell is sweet, thick, mildly sharp. Taste is boozy, grainy, bit sweet. rqther thick MF, good carbo. I like this one more than Leviathan (obviously, I don’t like peat) but where the leviathan far surpassed my expectations; this one did not even meet my expectations. An OK beer, just had a bigger idea of it.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2015
at 11:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours murkey blonde, no head: Smell is pure peat. Taste is mildly bitter, somewhat sweet. Nicely grainy. Ok, it’s peated - which I hate- but as a total product, its not bad at all. Good MF and decent carbo. The peat is surprisingly mild.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2015
at 11:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Maalderij Leviathan (by d'Oude Maalderij):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
14/XI/15 - on tap @ De Brouwerij / Oude Maalderij (Izegem) - BB: n/a (2015-1563)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very peated, medicinal, really heavy on the peat. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very peated, bit fruity, sweet, some citrus, sourish, touch, sugary notes. Aftertaste: very peated, but not too much, bit sweet, soft oxidation, fruity notes. Taste is - luckily - not as heavy with the peat as the nose.
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
14/XI/15 - on tap @ De Brouwerij / Oude Maalderij (Izegem) - BB: n/a (2015-1563)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very peated, medicinal, really heavy on the peat. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very peated, bit fruity, sweet, some citrus, sourish, touch, sugary notes. Aftertaste: very peated, but not too much, bit sweet, soft oxidation, fruity notes. Taste is - luckily - not as heavy with the peat as the nose.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2015
at 15:02
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Maalderij The Kraken (by d'Oude Maalderij):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
14/XI/15 - on tap @ De Brouwerij / Oude Maalderij (Izegem) - BB: n/a (2015-1562)
Clear deep orange beer, creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, very fruity, floral, hint of banana, bit spicy, some exotic fruits, cognac touch, apple juice. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, lots of alcohol, very fruity, some exotic fruits, rum touch, bit floral, Turkish delight. Aftertaste: alcohol, fruity, banana, some citrus, sweet, mango, pineapple, bit sourish. Very balanced, pretty nice stuff. Alcohol remains very well hidden, would never estimate this at 14%.
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
14/XI/15 - on tap @ De Brouwerij / Oude Maalderij (Izegem) - BB: n/a (2015-1562)
Clear deep orange beer, creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, very fruity, floral, hint of banana, bit spicy, some exotic fruits, cognac touch, apple juice. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, lots of alcohol, very fruity, some exotic fruits, rum touch, bit floral, Turkish delight. Aftertaste: alcohol, fruity, banana, some citrus, sweet, mango, pineapple, bit sourish. Very balanced, pretty nice stuff. Alcohol remains very well hidden, would never estimate this at 14%.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2015
at 15:02
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
[9/21/15] Draught at Le Trappiste in Bruges. Cloudy amber-brown. Aroma of caramel, olives, sour fruitiness, somewhat infected. Sweetish-sourish flavor with caramel, sour fruits, some alcohol. Medium-bodied. Seems off.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2015
at 03:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl bottle shared with Kermis. Massive gusher. Average creamy off white head. Clear deep amber pour. Not a great porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2015
at 10:24